Union Hill High School
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Union Hill High School is a four-year public high school in Union City, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Union City Board of Education, an Abbott District.
Through the 2007-08 school year, the city is served by two public high schools, Emerson High School and Union Hill High School. Starting in September 2008 Union Hill and Emerson High Schools will merge into a single school to be called Union City High School in a building on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium.[1]
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[edit] Athletics
Union Hill high School competes in the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association (HCIAA), which includes 22 private and parochial high schools in Hudson County. The league operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[2]
[edit] Administration
- David Wilcomes - Principal
- Kenneth Such - Assistant Principal
- Pat Stecklein - Assistant Principal
- Asterio Velasco - Assistant Principal
[edit] Notable alumni
- Nick Galis (1957-), retired Greek basketball player and member of the FIBA Hall of Fame.[3]
- Bob Menendez, Represents New Jersey in the United States Senate.[4]
- Frederick Reines, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-discovered the neutrino.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Hu, Winnie. "After 88 Years of Rivalry, the Last as Us and Them", The New York Times, November 22, 2007. Accessed January 2, 2008. "But today’s so-called Turkey Game signals the end of the tradition. Next fall, the two schools will merge in a new $176 million building.... The new Union City High School will take up four-and-a-half acres in the center of the city, squeezed between row houses and commercial strips. It will have a football field and bleachers built on the roof so that players will no longer have to share the facilities at José Martí Middle School."
- ^ Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 15, 2007.
- ^ Psarakis, Yannis. "Nikos Galis - Europe's Greatest-Ever Scorer", FIBA Europe. Accessed November 24, 2007. "Her horror at seeing her son come home every day with a new facial injury led to Galis taking up basketball and in 1970 began to play at Union Hill High School."
- ^ Congressional Biography of Robert Menendez, accessed March 8, 2007
- ^ Frederick Reines: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 - Autobiography, accessed April 5, 2007. "By this time the family had returned to New Jersey, and I was a student at Union Hill High School."
[edit] External links
- Union Hill High School
- Union City Board of Education
- Union City Board of Education's 2006-07 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- National Center for Education Statistics data for the Union City Board of Education
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