New Albany High School (Indiana)

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New Albany High School
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1020 Vincennes Street New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, United States
Information
School district	Floyd County
Principal	Steve Sipes
Students	2,192 ^[1]
Type	Public
Grades	9-12
Athletics	swimming, tennis, track, cheerleading, basketball, football, softball, baseball, cross country, soccer, golf, wrestling, dance team, etc...
Mascot	Bulldog
Color(s)	Black, Red
Established	1853
Homepage	http://www.nahs.ws

Founded in 1853, New Albany High School is the oldest public high school west of the Alleghenies. The school has the first student-run FM radio station to be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. WNAS Radio was opened in 1949[1]. Students at the school also have their own cable TV channel (WNAS TV) since 1980.

1 History
2 Notable alumni
3 Notable faculty
4 Radio station
5 New Albany High School Theatre
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

Initially known as Scribner High School, it opened in 1853 as the first high school in New Albany, Indiana. The school was operated on an irregular basis, and closed for years at a time. During part of the American Civil War, the school building was leased to the federal government, to be used as a hospital for Union soldiers. Continuous operation of a school has occurred since 1864 (though in varying locations). The final current location of the school was established in 1928.

Charles Allen Prosser attended and later ran the school as superintendent from 1900 to 1908, where he would form many of his opinions that would revolutionize teaching nationally in the decades to follow.

New Albany High School's theater department was featured in the New York Times for being "outstanding"^{[citation needed]}. Director Barry Blaustein showed an interest in the theater program and is currently in the works of making a documentary about high school theater in southern Indiana. It will be released in Spring 2008. Also, New Albany's theater department was one of the first high schools in the nation to perform Disney's High School Musical.

[edit] Notable alumni

The following is a selective list of notable alumni of New Albany High School mainly taken from a full length list from the school

William Vaughn Moody - C/O 1885 - dramatist and poet [2]
Sherman Minton - C/O 1910 - United States Senator and an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Billy Herman - C/O ???? - Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player during the 1930s and 1940s
Fuzzy Zoeller - C/O 1970 - Golfer who won multiple PGA Tours, including The Masters in 1979.
Scott Martin - C/O 1979 - Professional cricket (sport) batsman / bowler chalking up more than 6999 runs and all-time scorer.
Rob Conway - C/O 1990 - Professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Mike Wolfe - C/O 1995 - Pro Bowler on the PBA Tour, winner of the Earl Anthony Classic.

[edit] Notable faculty

Edwin Hubble - Astronomer, and science and Spanish teacher, after whom the Hubble Space Telescope was named. [3]

[edit] Radio station

WNAS, 88.1 FM, is the student-run school radio station, headed by the "Voice of the Bulldogs" Mr. Lee Kelly. It broadcasts to the greater metropolitan area (Louisville). It has been in operation since 1949, and was the first FCC-licensed high-school FM radio station in the United States. WNAS features shows such as Mathathon, Spell Bowl, and Challenege where teams from local elemetary schools come to compete. WNAS also broadcasts results for local elections.

[edit] New Albany High School Theatre

New Albany Senior High school has one of the highest-rated high school theater programs in the country. Under the direction of David Longest, the department often participates in the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. They were among some of the first high schools to perform "Beauty and the Beast" in 2005, and "High School Musical" in 2006. The department was also featured in an article in The New York Times for their performance of "Into the Woods" in 2005.