Swarthmore High School
Swarthmore High School was a four-year public high school in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania serving the Boroughs of Swarthmore and Rutledge.
Swarthmore established its own independent school district when Swarthmore Borough incorporated in 1893. The Swarthmore and Rutledge School Districts merged in 1955. In 1971 the Swarthmore-Rutledge District merged with adjacent Nether Providence School District to create the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District.
Swarthmore High School became Strath Haven High School when it merged with Nether Providence High School in 1984. Swarthmore students were moved to Nether Providence High School.
The building that was Swarthmore High School is now the Swarthmore Rutledge School, an elementary school in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District.
Notable alumni
- Edmund N. Bacon ('28), city planner (and father of actor Kevin Bacon)
- Avery F. Blake, Jr. ('49), member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
- Wally Butterworth ('18?), radio personality
- Gordon Findlay ('35), youngest Eagle Scout
- Carl Gersbach ('64), National Football League player, 1970–1976
- Jane L. Vache, member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
- Alice Putnam Willetts ('43), member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame
- [[ |Terry Irving]] ('69), CNN Producer
- Ron Bloom ('73), Presidential advisor in the Obama administration
- ROBERT U. TAYLOR ('59) Professional set designer/artist. His work as a set designer has been seen in both off-Bdwy & Broadway productions (he had 3 shows running on Broadway at once.) He has won the Drama Desk Award, 2 Obie Awards & other theatre awards. He has worked extensively in television & film: Taylor was the VFX Art Director for the sets of Judge Dredd, Eraser, Event Horizon, Shadow Conspiracy, Starship Troopers, shot planning for The Matrix, and invented the oil-painted location effects for What Dreams May Come. He designed many Virtual Reality rides; he was the Production Designer for the VFX ride Back to the Future with Douglas Trumbull directing, for Universal Studios Florida.
- Graham D. Taylor ('62) is a noted author & history professor at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, where he also was Vice President. His research interests focus on international business & American-Canadian business history. He has published a number of books, among them The New Deal & American Indian Tribalism, The Rise of Canadian Business, DuPont & the International Chemical Industry.