Glendale High School (Glendale, California)

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Glendale High School is an American high school located at 1440 Broadway Avenue East in Glendale, California. The school is the Flagship School of the Glendale Unified School District.

Glendale High School
Established September 1901
Type US Public Secondary
Principal Katherine Fundukian
Students 3,204
Grades 9–12
Location Glendale, California USA
Campus Suburban
Colors Red and black
Mascot Dynamiters/Nitros
Website www.glendalehigh.com

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[edit] History

Glendale High School was founded as Glendale Union High School in 1901 by the residents of the villages of: Glendale, La Crescenta, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Ivanhoe, Tropico, and West Glendale.

The first classes were held at the Glendale Hotel. The first principal was Mr. Llewellyn Evans and the school consisted of 2 teachers and 29 students. The next year, a new school building was built at the corner of what is today Brand Boulevard and Broadway Avenue.

Mr. George Moyse was appointed Principal and continued in his role for 35 years until 1937. The school continued to grow rapidly as the years progressed and the school moved several times, first in 1907 to Harvard Street and then later in 1914 to Maryland Street.

Glendale Union High School in 1902, it was known as the "Cheesebox" due to its distinctive yellow colour.
Glendale Union High School in 1902, it was known as the "Cheesebox" due to its distinctive yellow colour.

Again, the school continued to grow, as enrollment reached 800 in 1920 and 1,050 in 1921. It was decided then to move the Grade 10, 11, and 12 Classes to a new campus at the corner of present-day Broadway Avenue and Verdugo Road (Grade 9 students remained at the Maryland Street campus, and were later integrated into area Middle Schools). The school has remained in this location (1440 East Broadway, at the southeast corner of Verdugo) since 1924. [1]

The school suffered extensive damage during spring break in April 1964, when a student who was concerned about his grades set fire to the room in which he thought the grade information was stored. The fire quickly spread throughout the administration building and to adjacent buildings on the campus. The decision was made to reconstruct the campus, leaving the swimming pool, baseball field, tennis courts and football stadium as the only remnants of the old campus.

In the early 1990's, the decision was made by the School Board to reintegrate ninth graders into the Glendale Unified School District high schools. As a result, the 'J' building was constructed in 1994-1995, opening in September 1995.

Glendale Union High School in 1929
Glendale Union High School in 1929

In 2001, Glendale High School celebrated its centennial, by this point, the student population was 3,500 and there were over 100 teachers.[2]

In 2001, the Glendale High School Visual and Performing Arts Programme (VAPA) was awarded the BRAVO Award for excellence in arts education by the Los Angeles County Music Centre. In 2003, the Programme won another award, the Creative Ticket National School of Distinction Award from the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C.. Glendale High School was the only Public High School to be awarded this honour.

The Glendale High School Drill Team is nationally recognised, having won honours at Dance Competitions for the last 8 years.

On July 1, 2005, Mrs. Katherine Fundukian replaced Mr. LeRoy Sherman and Mrs. Lou Stewart as Co-Principals, as part of a School District decision to move Glendale High School back to a "traditional" one-principal system from the two-principal system that had been in place.

[edit] Sports

Glendale High School was among the first schools in Southern California to offer Athletic Sports, and the school's sport programme continues to be a major source of pride.

Glendale High School has two mascots, the Dynamiters in reference to the school Football Programme, and the Nitros in reference to all other sports.

Glendale High School offers the following sports:

[edit] Fall Season (September-November)

[edit] Winter Season (December-February)

[edit] Spring Season (March-May)

[edit] Traditions

[edit] Oratorical

Every March, the school holds its annual "Oratorical" event, students from each class (Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12) are judged on:

The tradition was started in 1910, during a time of heightened interest in Public Speaking in Southern California, it has continued through the years, demonstrating to the Community the pride students have in the school.

The event is judged by a mixture of military personnel, as well as former alumni and other notable figures from the community. The use of military personnel in the judging process has been known to cause controversy by raising accusations of the indoctrination of students.

[edit] Newspaper and Yearbook

The School Newspaper, the Explosion, was first published in 1917, and has continued to be published semi-quarterly for the past since.

The School Yearbook, the Stylus, was started in 1909 as a monthly publication. In 1910, it became a quarterly publication, being published each quarter by a different grade level. Since then, it has become an annual publication.

[edit] Pat Navolanic Memorial Award

The Pat Navolanic Memorial Award was established in 1966, in honour of Patrick Navolanic, a member and Valedictorian of the Class of 1963, who was emembered for being extremely active in school activities, and who died of suffocation in 1965 while on holiday in France.[3]

The award is given to the Grade 12 student who best exemplifies Navolanic's leadership traits, scholarship skills and athletic prowess, as decided by a council of electors representing all Student Organisations and Sports Teams on campus. The winner receives a scholarship in the amount of $1,000. The selection process is completely administrated by Students, and sponsored by the school National Honour Society (NHS). The scholarship money is made possible by a financial endowment, as well as generous donations from students, teachers, alumni, and the community.

The winners of the award are as follows [4]:

  • 1966 - Mr. Bruce Dalton
  • 1967 - Mr. Dave Taylor
  • 1968 - Mr. William Knudsen and Miss Sharon Kemp
  • 1969 - Mr. Charles Little
  • 1970 - Mr. Ralph Winter
  • 1971 - Mr. Art Sanders
  • 1972 - Miss Laura Lee Boerner
  • 1973 - Mr. John Spear
  • 1974 - Miss Marcia Zimmer
  • 1975 - Mr. Sam Lowe
  • 1976 - Mr. Mark Hallam
  • 1977 - Mr. Mark Ewing
  • 1978 - Miss Mary Hollywood
  • 1979 - Mr. Chris Welker
  • 1980 - Mr. Kerry Steinshouer
  • 1981 - Mr. Stuart Schoenmann
  • 1982 - Mr. Greg Schneekluth
  • 1983 - Miss Melinda Walters
  • 1984 - Mr. Clark Peterson
  • 1985 - Miss Tina Sproul
  • 1986 - Mr. Andrea Hallgren
  • 1987 - Mr. Rushmi Sadana
  • 1988 - Mr. Tamaki Murakami
  • 1989 - Mr. Brad Soderlund
  • 1990 - Miss Vula Baliotis
  • 1991 - Mr. Ronnie Apcar and Mr. Tom Phan
  • 1992 - Mr. Amber Novak
  • 1993 - Mr. Raffi Avedian and Mr. Shant Petrossian
  • 1994 - Mr. Loren Geller
  • 1995 - Miss Ruth Ochoa
  • 1996 - Mr. David Schmittdiel
  • 1997 - Miss Nina Kwon
  • 1998 - Miss Christine Sung
  • 1999 - Mr. Tad Nakatani
  • 2000 - Miss Christine Anouchian
  • 2001 - Miss Jennifer Au
  • 2002 - Mr. Gerald Sung
  • 2003 - Mr. William Wagner
  • 2004 - Miss Christina Sher
  • 2005 - Mr. Ray de Mesa
  • 2006 - Miss Erika Hernandez

[edit] Demographics

Statistics for 2005-2006 School Year [5]

[edit] Students By Grade

  • Grade 9 - 820
  • Grade 10 - 859
  • Grade 11 - 793
  • Grade 12 - 732

[edit] Gender and Ethnicity

[edit] Gender

  • Female - 1,665
  • Male - 1,539

[edit] Ethnicity

  • American Indian/Alaskan Native - 1(< 0.1%)
  • Asian - 199 (6.2%)
  • Pacific Islander - 4 (0.1%)
  • Filipino - 257 (8.0%)
  • Hispanic/Latino - 896 (28.0%)
  • African-American - 47 (1.5%)
  • White (Non-Hispanic) - 1,760 (54.9%)
  • Multiple or No Response - 40 (1.2%)

It should be noted that the school, much like the city, has a significant Middle Eastern population. The City of Glendale is home to the third largest Armenian community outside of Armenia, after Moscow and Los Angeles. [6] The State of California does not classify students' ethnicity other than in the categories listed above - there is no "Armenian" or "Middle Eastern" classification. Rather, students of Armenian descent are counted only as "White (non-Hispanic)".

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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