Seneca High School MCA

Seneca High School
Established	1957
Type	Public Secondary
Principal	students = 1,700
Grades	9–12
Location	Louisville, Kentucky, USA
District	Jefferson County Public Schools
Campus	Urban
Mascot	The Redhawks
Newspaper	The Sentinel
Fight song	Seneca Forever
Website	Seneca High School

Seneca High School MCA (Magnet Career Academy) is a Louisville, Kentucky, USA, public school. It is located at 3510 Goldsmith Lane, Louisville, KY 40220, in the Hikes Point neighborhood and is part of Jefferson County Public Schools.

Academics

Seneca is a public senior high school with a full complement of academics including learning and academic disabilities education and English as a Second Language. Seneca has an Honors program, an Advanced Placement program, a Competitive Music Program, an Urban AgriScience magnet program, and the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps Program (JROTC). A professional career theme called Creating Our Global Community offers courses in human services, education, and international studies. The foreign languages offered are French, Latin, Japanese, German, Spanish and Chinese. Students are now required to wear uniforms.

Athletics

Administrators

• Principal: Kim Harbolt
• Assistant Principal:
• Assistant Principal: Bob Dearmond
• Assistant Principal: Cathy Bosemer
• Assistant Principal: Joe Ellison

Notable alumni

• Diane Sawyer - Television journalist for ABC News (1963)
• Mike R. Redd - Basketball standout. All-State three years and named Kentucky Mr. Basketball in 1963 when Seneca won the Kentucky state championship. Led Kentucky Wesleyan to third in the 1964 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament.^[1] Drafted in 1967 by the Boston Celtics.^[2] Won the AAU Men's National Basketball Championship in 1969 and 1970 with the U.S. Armed Forces All-Stars.^[3] Elected to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1999.^[4] (1963)
• Jerry Abramson - Louisville, Kentucky mayor and Kentucky lieutenant governor. (1964)
• Wes Unseld - NBA basketball player for the Baltimore/Washington Bullets elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988. He led Seneca High School to two Kentucky state championships in 1963 and 1964. His 88 rebounds in the 1964 tournament, and 72 rebounds in the 1963 tourney, rank as the two top tournament marks in that category.^[5] As a senior he was named Kentucky Mr. Basketball. Elected to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1989.^[5] (1964)
• Stephen P. Imhoff - former Jefferson County Public Schools board member. Local attorney. (1966)
• Cyb (Priscilla) & Patricia Barnstable - Identical twin actresses who appeared as the The Doublemint Twins in commercials for Wrigley chewing gum, portrayed Betty 1 and Betty 2 ^[6] in the short lived 1970s television series, Quark, and co-host the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Derby Party, a celebrity charity event. (1969)^[7][8]
• Darryl Bishop - Football defensive back who still holds University of Kentucky career records for pass interceptions and interception return yardage.^[9] All-SEC, First Team in 1973 and Second Team in 1972, Bishop was named to the Hula Bowl and North-South Shrine Game. Along with Joe Federspiel, Bishop was named the team's Most Valuable Player in 1971, the Outstanding Defensive Back in 1972 and 1973,^[10] and drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1974. Bishop walked-on and played on the freshman basketball team during the 1969-70 season. He is considered by Kentucky^[11] to be its first African American basketball player. Bishop returned as a walk-on for the 1971-72 season, playing in five games^[12] during legendary coach Adolph Rupp's final season at Kentucky. (1969)
• Brian J. Karem - Former correspondent, America's Most Wanted. Author of seven books and two best sellers. (1979)
• Don Braden - American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader (1983)
• Steven D. Tucker, PE - well respected engineer for the Louisville Regional Airport Authority (1979)
• ZZ Packer - Notable short-fiction writer and author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere featured on the Today Show Book Club. (1990)
• Garry Williams – Offensive lineman for the NFL Carolina Panthers and University of Kentucky. (2004)
• Cassie Heiter - WQAD-TV meteorologist. (2005)
• Stephen John - Sports writer, ghostwriter, and poker enthusiast. Co-author with Marvin Karlins of Deal Me In (Published 2009)^[13]
• Rev. Dr. K. Wayne White, Sr. - Coordinator, Indianapolis Urban League. Tenured Minister, musician & producer. (1981)
• Doan Hoang - Director of Oh, Saigon, award-winning documentary about her family's separation during the fall of Saigon and her attempt to reunite them. (1990)

See also

• Public schools in Louisville, Kentucky

References

External links

• School website
• Redhawks Football
• Fight Song Seneca Forever

Coordinates: 38°12′27.82″N 85°39′18.91″W / 38.2077278°N 85.6552528°W / 38.2077278; -85.6552528