Benjamin Bosse High School

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Benjamin Bosse High School
Established	1924
School type	Public high school
Locale	Mid-size city
Grades	9-12
Principal	Robert W. Adams
Location	Evansville, Indiana, USA
Students	855
Colors	scarlet and gray
Mascot	Bulldogs
Snapshot	BBHS
Website	Homepage

Benjamin Bosse High School in Evansville, Indiana, USA, is a public high school of the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation.

[edit] History

Benjamin Bosse High School is located at 1300 Washington in Evansville, Indiana. It is one of five public and two parochial high schools in Evansville.

Bosse serves the city's southern quarter, and historically has been a working-class school. The school is racially diverse, reflecting the surrounding neighborhood. In the early 2000s, the school was roughly 60 percent Caucasian and 40 percent African-Americans and other minorities.

Bosse High's mascot is the "Bulldog." The colors are scarlet and grey. Bosse's boys basketball team was the first area team to win the state championship, in 1944. Bosse won again in 1945 and 1962. Bosse's band marched in the Orange Bowl Parade on New Year's Eve in 1970-1971. Bosse's drama department was the first in Evansville to present a Broadway musical, Brigadoon, in 1952.

The school was named for Benjamin Bosse, mayor of Evansville from 1914 to 1922, who bought land and financed the building of a school. Bosse died in 1922, the same year construction began on the school. Benjamin Bosse High School opened its doors to juniors from old Central High School on January 29, 1924 and graduated its first class in 1925.

Bosse High was at that time on the border of the city limits making it more accessible to the local families of kindergarteners and first graders. These students attended Bosse Elementary in the west wing of Bosse High School until Washington Elementary School opened in 1937.

[edit] Principals of Bosse High School

1924-1926 Mrs. Roswell Pucket
1926-1950 Mr. Carl Eifler
1950-1961 Mr. David Dudley
1961-1975 Mr. Paul Jennings
1975-1985 Mr. Paul Schmidt
1985-present Mr. Robert Adams