Bremerton High School

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Bremerton High School is a high school located in the port city of Bremerton, Washington, west across Puget Sound from Seattle, at 1500 13th Street. It is the main of two high schools in the Bremerton School District and currently facilitates students in grades 10 through 12. The school is currently in a renovating state making room for the incoming 9th grade who has been since held at the Bremerton Jr. High School which is currently divided into the Mountain View Middle School 8th Grade School and the Bremerton High School Freshman Academy. This will make the school into a 9-12th grade high school.

1 School Colors, Mascot, and Emblem
2 Fight Song
3 Operation Pharmacy
4 Notable Alumni
5 External links

[edit] School Colors, Mascot, and Emblem

Bremerton High School's mascot is the Knight. The school's traditional colors are Royal Blue and Gold. The official emblem is a Knight on a horse carrying a lance surrounded by a major arc with "Bremerton High School" written upon it. The origin of the school colors and mascot comes from the unification of West Bremerton Wildcats, whose colors were blue and gold, and the East Bremerton Knights, whose colors were red and silver. They chose the colors of West Bremerton and the mascot of East Bremerton giving us Bremerton High School's Knight along with Royal Blue and Gold as its colors.

[edit] Fight Song

The Bremerton High School Fight Song is set to the melody of Anchors Aweigh. It is repeated a second time with shortened notes for the "Spell Off" (e.g. "K!N!...") then finishes the same as it did the first time.

Fight for the blue and gold,
Fight for your school
We never will say die,
We're with you win or lose that's why
So proudly our cheers will ring
Up to the sun
Bring back those victories Knights
And make the others bow to Bremerton.
K!N!I!G!H!T!S! Go Knights!
That's why so proudly our cheers will ring
Up to the sun
Bring back those victories Knights
And make the others bow to Bremerton.

[edit] Operation Pharmacy

Police and undercover detectives descended on Bremerton High School on the morning of January 23rd, 2007, making a wave of arrests and uncovering a multitude of drugs, including cocaine in one student's backpack.
The bust was the culmination of a two-month long investigation by Bremerton Police Department's undercover narcotics unit, the Special Operations Group, which has ultimately led to total 17 arrests -- including eight at school today -- for suspected charges of marijuana, cocaine, Ecstasy and gun possession.
Dubbed "Operation Pharmacy" -- coined by a high school student who told detectives that getting drugs at the high school was as prolific as at a drugstore -- detectives used operatives to make "controlled" buys in the weeks leading to the bust to collect evidence.
Sgt. Randy Plumb said the school day was both the safest and most effective way to make the arrests, and praised efforts and accommodation by Bremerton High School teachers and others.
Detectives and police patrol units moved into the school at about 10:45 a.m., Plumb said.
The breakdown of the suspected charges in "Operation Pharmacy," according to the drug unit:
13 are marijuana-related;
Six are cocaine-related;
Seven are related to MDMA, better known as Ecstasy;
Four are firearms-related, three of which were transported or sold on school property, detectives said.
More arrests are still to be made, said Plumb. Krista Carlson, spokeswoman for the Bremerton School District, said school staff will help police whenever any suspected crime becomes known.

[edit] Notable Alumni

American politician, Norm Dicks grew up and graduated from Bremerton elementary and secondary schools. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1977, representing the Sixth Congressional District of Washington.
Jazz legend Quincy Jones moved to Bremerton at age 10. As a teenager, he first met up with Ray Charles after traveling to clubs in Seattle.
American filmaker Matt Tucker graduated from Bremerton High School in 1994 and credits that his high school career revived his acting. He was even the school mascot -the Knight- his Senior year.
Dana Kirk and Tara Kirk attended Bremerton High School and received scholarships in swimming to attend Stanford University. They have competed multiple times in collegiate and non-collegiate swimming, including the 2004 Olympic games - the first sisters to be members of a U.S. Olympic Swim team.
Marvin Williams also attended Bremerton High School before winning a National Championship in basketball at the University of North Carolina. He was also the #2 pick in the NBA's 2005 Draft.
Actor Joe Pichler graduated from Bremerton High School in 2005. He has been in several movies including the role of Brennan Newton in Beethoven's 3rd and Beethoven's 4th. He went missing on January 5th, 2006 and he remains missing.