William L. Dickinson High School
William L. Dickinson High School is a four-year public high school located in Jersey City, New Jersey, operating as part of the Jersey City Public Schools. Dickinson occupies a prominent location on Bergen Hill overlooking lower Jersey City and the New York Harbor. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1929.[3]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,359 students and 152 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.52.[1]
The school was the 308th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 295th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[4] The school was ranked 291st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[5]
History
Originally named 'Jersey City High School', the property was purchased in 1904 and the new building opened on September 6, 1906, in an attempt to relieve overcrowding in the city's public schools.[6] It was the first public secondary school in the city.[7] When the school opened, it housed a 2,000 seat auditorium that saw extensive public use, and hosted such events as a lecture by Helen Keller and political rallies for United States Presidents Taft, Wilson, and Roosevelt.[7] The original school was expanded with the construction of a second building in 1912 to further industrial skills education. This building contained a foundry, print shop, and vocational classrooms.[7] In 1913, the school was renamed William L. Dickinson High School for the superintendent who had advocated for creation of the school during his term from 1872 to 1883.[6] The school was expanded again in 1933 with the addition of an annex containing a swimming pool, cafeteria, and gymnasium.[7]
A testament to the school's age, the rear of the building is the site of a late 1800s-era cannon mount built to protect the Hudson River shoreline from early invaders. Given the location of the cannon and the associated technology of the time, its doubted that the cannon would ever have been effective as a defensive emplacement. While the cannon has since been removed, the original mounting remains and is now the site of a black-granite monument to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In 1946, teachers went on strike.[8]
Awards and recognition
In 2002–03, students Juliet R. Girard and Roshan D. Prabhu won the team competition of the Siemens Westinghouse Competition for "Identification and High Resolution Mapping of Flowering Time Genes in Rice." The duo shared a $100,000 scholarship with their victory.[9]
In 2007, Abdullah Anwar, a student was recognized as a semi-finalist in the 2007 New Jersey Business Idea Competition conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University.[10]
Athletics
The William L. Dickinson High School Rams compete in the Hudson County Interscholastic League, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.[11]
The Dickinson Rams football team were led by head coach Rich Glover who used to play as a defensive lineman for the New York Giants. In February 2010, the Jersey City Public Schools cut funding for interscholastic sports and ended the football program at Dickinson.[12]
The Dickinson High School boys basketball team won the 2000 Public Sectionals - North I, Group IV, edging Memorial High School 43-41 in the tournament final.[13]
In 2008 the boys cross country team (the "Wolf Pack") placed 4th in the North Jersey Section 2, Group IV state championships.
In 2009 the boys soccer team went on to the state tournament, losing to Ridge High School by a score of 2-0 in the tournament final, finishing with a record of 17-8-0 and marking the first time in Dickinson history that the boys varsity soccer team made it to state finals, under the coaching of Rene "Toro" Portillo and Tom Whorley.[14]
The 2009 Boys Volleyball Team won the Jersey City Public Schools Championship, and went on to the North New Jersey State tournament as the 20th seed, but however lost to Bloomfield High School in the first round.
Administrators
Core members of the school's administration are:[15]
- Arlene Farrell, Principal
- Gekson Casillas, Vice Principal
- Sophia Harrold, Vice Principal
- Emilio Pane, Vice Principal
- David Herman, Vice Principal
- MaryJo Trusso, Vice Principal
Notable alumni
- Al Blozis (1919–45), player for the New York Giants killed during World War II.[16]
- The Duprees, 60s group formed by students from the school.[17]
- Dom Flora (born 1935), played college basketball for Washington and Lee University from 1954 to 1958 and graduated as NCAA Division I's fifth–highest scorer.[18][19]
- Ed Franco (1915–92), played football on the 1936 Fordham University team as one of the "Seven Blocks of Granite".[20]
- James J. Galdieri (1900–1948), served in the New Jersey General Assembly.[21]
- Mary Teresa Norton (1875–1959), served 13 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1925 to 1951.[22]
- Mary Philbrook (1872–1958), first female attorney in New Jersey.[23]
- Eliu Rivera, represents District 4 on the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders.[24]
- Michelle Rodriguez born 1978), actress.
- Eddie August Schneider (1911–1940), set the transcontinental air speed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930.[25]
- Alexander Simpson (1872–1953), served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature.[26]
- Joe Sulaitis (born 1921), running back for the New York Giants of the NFL from 1943 to 1953.[27]
Dress code
The school requires its students to wear school uniforms.[28] The uniform requires the students to wear a black Dickinson High School polo, black or khaki pants, and sneakers or shoes
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Details for William L. Dickinson High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 29, 2011.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natregsearchresult.do?fullresult=true&recordid=36. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
- ^ William L. Dickinson High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. Accessed December 29, 2011.
- ^ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed December 29, 2011.
- ^ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
- ^ a b Dickinson High School, accessed January 6, 2007.
- ^ a b c d Goodnough, Abby (October 6, 1996). "Once Upon a Time, When High Schools Were Palaces". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/nyregion/once-upon-a-time-when-high-schools-were-palaces.html. Retrieved October 14, 2009.
- ^ "400 of Dickinson High School, Jersey City, Join Others in Protest on Hours". The New York Times. December 18, 1946. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C16F9345E1B7B93CAA81789D95F428485F9. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "The ranks of striking high school pupils here were enlarged today when 400 pupils of the William L. Dickinson High School left their classes in sympathy with the 1,000 ..."
- ^ Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology, accessed November 22, 2006.
- ^ 2007 New Jersey Business Idea Competition, Fairleigh Dickinson University, accessed May 6, 2007.
- ^ League Memberships – 2011-2012, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 30, 2011.
- ^ Hague, Jim. "SCOREBOARD 02-14-2010The end of an eraJersey City Board of Education pulls the plug on Dickinson football", Hudson Reporter, February 14, 2010. Accessed December 29, 2011. "The Jersey City Board of Education convened last week to address budgetary problems, and the powers-that-be decided to slice the entire athletic budget in half, cutting 50 percent of the entire budget that was set aside for athletics.Among those cuts included the complete elimination of high school football at Dickinson High School."
- ^ 2000 Public Sectionals - North I, Group IV, NJSIAA, accessed May 6, 2007.
- ^ Staff. "Ridge 2, Dickinson 0", The Star-Ledger, November 13, 2009. Accessed November 30, 2011. "Phil Welsh assisted Jake Hotz seven minutes into the first half and then scored off a feed from Zach Brody two minutes after the break to lead Ridge, No. 14 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, to a 2-0 victory over Dickinson in the NJSIAA/Investors Savings Bank North Jersey, Section 2, Group 4 final yesterday in Basking Ridge."
- ^ Administrators, Dickinson High School. Accessed December 29, 2011.
- ^ Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. "Two Giants Were Heroes Far From Playing Field", The New York Times, January 26, 1991. Accessed September 25, 2009. "Blozis, who was born in Garfield, N.J., and was a star athlete at Dickinson High School in Jersey City before going to Georgetown on a track scholarship, was regarded as the strongest player in professional football and had the physique to prove it."
- ^ Nelson, Jennifer L. "You, Me, & The Duprees", New Jersey Monthly, January 2008. Accessed June 23, 2008.
- ^ "Jersey City's Bob Hurley Elected to Hoop Hall of Fame". Bob Hurley Hall of Fame Issue (Printable Edition). Volume 23, No. 2. The Jersey Journal. April 2010. http://jedseyjournal.com/. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^ "Dominick A. (Dom) Flora '58". Washington and Lee University. http://www.wlu.edu/x2301.xml. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^ Ed "Devil Doll" Franco, College Football Hall of Fame. Accessed July 22, 2007. "Ed Franco came from Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Fordham."
- ^ Staff. "JAMES J. GALDIERI; Ex-Assemblyman From Hudson County Dies in Home at 47", The New York Times, April 28, 1944. Accessed May 20, 2009.
- ^ Mary Teresa Norton, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 15, 2007.
- ^ Mary Philbrook, 1872-1958, accessed May 6, 2007. "Mary Philbrook was born in Washington, D. C. in 1872 but her family moved to Jersey City by the time she was six. She attended Public School #11 (now Martin Luther King, Jr. School) and then Jersey City High School (now Dickinson High School)."
- ^ Rivera.htm Freeholder Eliu Rivera - District 4, Hudson County, New Jersey. Accessed September 25, 2009.
- ^ "Biography of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1904) written to accompany his papers deposited at the George H. Williams, World War I Aviation Library at the University of Texas at Dallas". Gretchen Hahnen (1902-1986). 1948. http://base.google.com/base/a/1215166/6794086788165097332. Retrieved 2007-08-21. "Eddie Schneider was born October 20, 1911 on Second Avenue, and 17th Street in New York City. Later his family moved to Red Bank, New Jersey where he attended grade school. From there his family moved to Jersey City, New Jersey and he graduated from Dickinson High School. ..."
- ^ "A. Simpson, Figure in Hall-Mills Case". The New York Times, July 21, 1953. Accessed September 25, 2009.
- ^ Joe Sulaitis, database Football. Accessed October 1, 2007.
- ^ "Our Uniform Policy - Dickinson High School." Jersey City Public Schools. Retrieved on March 9, 2009.
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