North High School (Torrance, California)

North Torrance High School
Location
3620 W. 182nd Street Torrance, CA 90504
United States
Information
Type Public Secondary
Established 1955
Principal Ronald Richardson
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 2,100
Color(s)           Blue and White
Mascot Saxons
Website northhighschool.org

North Torrance High School is a four-year public high school located at 3620 W. 182nd St. in Torrance, California. Of the four public high schools in the Torrance Unified School District, North High is the second oldest. The school's mascot is the Saxon and the school colors are blue and white. North High is accredited by WASC.[1]

Demographics

School facts

Athletics

North High was 1971 CIF 4A (Largest school division) Baseball Champions beating Chaffey HS 9-0 Jim O'Brien head coach

North Highs Dennis Littlejohn (San Francisco Giants drafted 1st rd #2 overall) named 1971 CIF baseball player of the year

North High was 1972 CIF 4A (Largest school division) Baseball Runner Up losing to Dominguez HS 5-4 Jim O'Brien head coach

North High was 1974 CIF 4A (Largest school division) Baseball Champions beating Lakewood HS 1-0 Jim O'Brien head coach

North High was also named Cal Hi best school baseball team for the 1974 season with a season record or 26-6-1

North Highs Tim O'Neal was named CIF baseball player of the year (who pitched both sides of the 21 inn championship game)

The 1974 Championship game began at Anaheim Stadium ended in a 0-0 tie after a curfew of time then to be completely replayed a couple days later at USC's Rod Dedeaux field for a 1-0 victory for a total of 21 innings, clearly one of the if not the greatest championship games in High school baseball history. North High's Tim O'Neal pitched both games.

North High was voted by the Pioneer League as the runner-up for Most Athletic School in 2007-2008.

In 2002-2003 winter season boys varsity wrestling won CIF Div. II in both Individual and Duals(Duals was held at Home)

Current administration

Principal- Dr. Ron Richardson
Assistant Principal- Mr. Lawrence Hom
Assistant Principal- Ms. Portia Rivera
Dean of Students- Mr. Andrew McCarty
Student Activities- Advisor Mr. Marc Pioch
Athletic Director- Mr. Brian Ormsby

Notable alumni

KNHS

KNHS
City of license Torrance, California
(Los Angeles County)
Broadcast area South Santa Monica Bay area
Slogan The Rock of the Block
Frequency 89.7 (MHz)
First air date 1966 (?) to 1991
Format Music chosen by whoever was on the air at the moment
Power 10 Watts
ERP 13 watts estimated
Class D
Callsign meaning North High School
Owner Torrance Unified School District

KNHS, was an FCC licensed FM radio station on 89.7 MHz, serving the Torrance, California area with a variety music format. KNHS ceased legal broadcasts when a short-sighted TUSD allowed the station license to expire December 1, 1983. Former students of North High School say that the station broadcast until 1991 raising the possibility that the station was a pirate broadcaster from 1983 until 1991. The FCC facility ID was: 67342. According to the High School newspaper, The North Wind, The station broadcast with one Watt until 1972 when its studios and transmitter were moved to the second floor of the Industrial Arts building. The transmitter and limiter, which were mounted on a shelf in the old 3-room radio station by the cafeteria (announcer booth, control room that had a Gates audio console, and the records storage room) survived the big earthquake on February 9, 1971. When KNHS moved to the industrial arts building, the antenna tower was moved to the roof above the studios. The tower originally was above the old KNHS studios near the cafeteria.

There was no professional manager for KNHS, so broadcast students managed KNHS with some supervision by schoolteachers Mr. McKenzie and Mr. Fields, so the programming, educational value and financial earnings potential of KNHS was never realized. There was no engineer for the station except for a contract engineer who was only called when something was known to be wrong and a monitoring company measured the frequency of KNHS monthly to comply with FCC regulations: We would turn on the transmitter, call the monitoring company, who would record the specific frequency of the radio station. In 1970, the radio station got its first phone line, allowing it to take music requests from its listeners, though at 10-Watts and limited broadcast hours, the listening "public" was probably limited to the students who announced the music, and who also did the remote broadcasts of sporting events, thanks to the technical knowledge of Mr. McKenzie.

North High School had speakers at various places on campus, including the "quad," and cafeteria, so the unsuspecting students could be subjected to the sound of the campus radio station at lunch time. A local "landmark" was the KNHS tower with its two omnidirectional "halo" elements, one at the top and one lower on the tower. The tower was damaged in a winter storm in 2010 and removed from view.

References

  1. ↑ "Directory of Schools: Search Details". acswasc.org. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Crowe, Jerry (4 December 2006). "The story arc of his life has some real hooks to it". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  3. ↑ KOMAI, CHRIS (28 August 2014). "THAT GUY IN THAT COMMERCIAL". The Rafu Shimpo. Retrieved 15 April 2015.

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