Hume-Fogg High School

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Hume-Fogg High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	700 Broadway Nashville, Tennessee
Architect:	William B. Ittner; Robert Sharp
Added to NRHP:	October 16, 1974
NRHP Reference#:	74001909
Governing body:	Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

Hume-Fogg Academic High School is a public magnet high school located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It includes grades 9–12.

1 History
2 School mascot
3 Distinctions
4 Notable alumni
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

Hume-Fogg's original incarnation, Hume High School, which opened in 1855 on Eighth Avenue (Spruce Street) and Broad, was the first public school in Nashville.

In 1875 Fogg High School became the second public school in Nashville. It was built on the same property as Hume High School facing Broad Street. In 1912, the two merged into Hume-Fogg at the present site at 700 Broadway in Nashville, a Tudor Revival building. The Building consist of four floors including the basement, which has several tunnels leading to various places around downtown Nashville, however they are currently boarded off and unable to be used. In 1942 Hume-Fogg was recast as a Technical and Vocational School. It continued in this capacity until the 1982 court supervised desegregation of Nashville's public school system. In that year, Hume-Fogg was again recast as an academic magnet school for Nashville's gifted and talented secondary students.

In the 2004–2005 school year, Hume-Fogg celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary.

[edit] School mascot

The current school mascot is the Blue Knight. His suit of armor can be found in the entrance hallway of the school. The school colors are blue and white.

[edit] Distinctions

Hume-Fogg is respected academically: in 2004–2005, the College Board certified Hume-Fogg's Advanced Placement Microeconomics course, taught by Mrs. Robinson, as the strongest in the world. Nearly 100 percent of graduates each year go on to four-year colleges, many earning prestigious academic scholarships in the process. Each year, the Hume-Fogg senior class is granted over 10 million dollars in cumulative scholarship and grant money from various universities across the United States. Hume-Fogg also has a high rate of students involved in sports. In 1964 it was the first public high school in Nashville to desegregate its sports teams.

In 2006 Hume-Fogg was ranked 43rd in Newsweek's Top Public High School; 58 in 2007^[1] and 24th in 2008. In 2006–2007 the school received the National Siemens Award for one of the best scientific and math-based academic programs in the country.

[edit] Notable alumni

Tennessee poet Randall Jarrell attended Hume-Fogg, where he wrote some of his first essays; there is now a historical marker on the site.
Actress Dinah Shore also graduated from Hume-Fogg.
Pinup queen and Playboy Playmate Bettie Page was salutatorian in the 1940s.
Transsexual author, actress and activist Calpernia Addams, who was thrust into the spotlight in 1999 following the tragic murder of her Army boyfriend, Barry Winchell.
NBC's Grease: You're the One that I Want's 3rd Place "Sandy" Allie Schulz
Academy Award winning director Delbert Mann graduated from Hume-Fogg.
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Johnny Beazley
Three members of the band American Bang!: Kelby Ray, Jaren Johnston, and Ben Brown graduated from Hume-Fogg. The band's single "Move to the music" was featured in a Verizon wireless commercial.