Winnacunnet High School

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Coordinates: 42°55′55″N 70°49′57″W / 42.93194, -70.8325 Winnacunnet High School is an American public high school located in Hampton, New Hampshire. It serves students in grades 9 through 12 who reside in the communities of Hampton, Seabrook, North Hampton, and Hampton Falls. Students from South Hampton have the option of attending either Winnacunnet or Amesbury High School. The name Winnacunnet is a Native American word that means "beautiful place in the pines".

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[edit] History

Ground was broken for Winnacunnet High School on October 30, 1957, and it first opened in the fall of 1958 with an attendance of 474 students. Prior to 1958, area students attended the Hampton Academy and High School, a junior-senior high school which today still exists as the junior high school for Hampton. The official Winnacunnet High dedication ceremony took place on October 26, 1958. The school has recently finished major construction and renovations.

[edit] The Pamela Smart murder case

The school was in the national news in 1990, when Pamela Smart, a media services coordinator at Winnacunnet and an adult volunteer with "Project Self-Esteem" at the high school, seduced 15-year old sophomore student William "Billy" Flynn and convinced him to murder her husband on May 1, 1990. [1] Smart was convicted of first degree murder in March, 1991, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

[edit] Past principals

  • Roberta Neuman
  • Steve Collins
  • Judy Langlois
  • Ruth Leveille (September, 2002–June 30, 2005)
  • Randall P. Zito (July 1, 2005–present)

[edit] Trivia

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  • The school's sports teams are called the Winnacunnet Warriors. The choice of Warriors was made by a vote of the student body in 1958 as a tribute to local Native Americans.
  • The school's colors are blue and white.
  • The school's logo is a Native American head.
  • Winnacunnet's rival team is the Blue Hawks of Exeter High School in Exeter, New Hampshire.
  • Winnacunnet has made it to the finals of Granite State Challenge, airing on New Hampshire Public Television, in 2003, 2006 and 2008. In 2003 the team was defeated by Hanover High School, and in 2006 they were defeated by Manchester High School West.
  • James Thomson, from the Class of '62, is CEO of the Rand Corporation, a highly regarded research institution in Santa Monica, California.

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