Green Bay East High School

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Green Bay East High School is a public high school in the Green Bay Area Public School District serving Green Bay, Wisconsin and its surrounding communities (including the villages of Bellevue and Allouez).

1 History
2 Notable graduates
3 Athletics
4 2006 averted school shooting
5 External links

[edit] History

It was first founded in 1856 in the now Astor Park district of Green Bay and has only been located in three locations since then. East High has been at its current location at 1415 E. Walnut Street since 1924.

[edit] Notable graduates

Notable graduates include Green Bay Packers founder Curly Lambeau, "Sleepy" Jim Crowley (a member of Knute Rockne's "Four Horsemen"), politician Terese Berceau, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Red Smith (who wrote for The New York Times), and Monk TV series star Tony Shalhoub.

[edit] Athletics

The mascot for athletics is the Red Devil. Currently, it is part of the Fox River Valley Conference (FRVC) consisting of Green Bay West, Green Bay Southwest, Green Bay Preble, Notre Dame Academy, Manitowoc Lincoln, Sheboygan North, and Sheboygan South High Schools, but will soon join the new Fox River Classic Conference.

Green Bay East and its crosstown rival Green Bay West celebrated 100 years of football competition in 2005. East, led by coach John Kolstad, won the game 58-8. A time capsule was created which will transfer annually to the winning team until 2030.

The Red Devils play at City Stadium, which was home of the Green Bay Packers from 1926–1956. Now, it is known as East Stadium or Old City Stadium. Recent renovations of the school included ornamental fencing and monuments to the history of the field thanks to Jim Belongia and the Green Bay Packers.

[edit] 2006 averted school shooting

Three students were arrested in September, 2006 for planning a school shooting at Green Bay East. The students had weapons, ammunition, and explosives.[1] Apparently fascinated by the Columbine shootings, they had been planning the shooting for several years in advance. Already contemplating suicide, two of the suspects in the plot decided that they would do a Columbine like shoot out, and die at the hands of police.