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Revision as of 23:53, 26 August 2007
| Alvirne High School | |
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| Address | |
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200 Derry Road , | |
| Information | |
| Type | Secondary |
| Established | 1950 |
| School district | Hudson School District, NH SAU 81 |
| Principal | Bryan K. Lane |
| Faculty | 119 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1560 |
| Color(s) | Maroon & Gold |
| Mascot | Bronco |
| Website | Alvirne High School |
Alvirne High School is located in the town of Hudson, New Hampshire with an enrollment of approximately 1,560 students from grades 9-12. Alvirne gets its name from a prominent Hudson family, the Alfred and Virginia Hills family, who left a large piece of property to the town in the early 20th century to provide land for the building of a high school. A contraction of their names (Alfred and Virginia) provides the name for the school. The school mascot is the Bronco, and the school colors are maroon and gold.[1]
History
The school was almost never built. A tract in the Hills' will providing for the school required that it open by a certain date. Behind schedule, the town held 4-H horticulture classes in the partially complete building to meet the literal deadline.
On September 8th, 1974 a large fire gutted the building, requiring most of it to be rebuilt. The agricultural school was opened in the 1950's, and the modern vocational building opened in 1993.[2]
The school's Gymnasium is named after former principal Chester J. Steckevicz.
Administration
School District
Alvirne High School is the only high school in the Hudson School District, under the authority of School Administrative Unit # 81 of New Hampshire (SAU81). The Superintendent of Schools is Randy Bell.[3]
School Administrators
- Principal - Bryan K. Lane
- Dean of Students - Timothy J. Broderick
- Assistant Dean of Students - Susan M. Hanley
- Dean of Academics - Mark MacLean
- Vocational Director - Richard Lutz
- Director of Guidance - William R. Hughen[4]
Academic Programs
Alvirne teaches a standard college preparatory course of study, but also features an extensive vocational education program.[5]
Advanced Placement (AP) Programs
Alvirne offers several Advanced Placement Programs. They include: AP American Literature I, AP British Literature, AP United States History I & II, AP American Government, AP Statistics, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, and AP Physics. An AP French class may be offered soon.
Foreign Language Program
Alvirne offers both French and Spanish classes in its foreign language department. Classes range from level 1B to level 5. There is an honors Spanish course for the academically accelerated student. Also, an AP French class may be offered soon.
Wilbur H. Palmer Vocational-Technical Center
The campus is home to the Wilbur H. Palmer Vocational-Technical Center, a comprehensive vocational education center that features programs of study in finance, accounting, agriculture mechanics/diesel technology, banking, biotechnology, building trades, business, culinary arts, early childhood education, floriculture, health occupations, landscaping, marketing, natural resource management/forestry, production agriculture, and veterinary technology.[6]
The program focuses on application-based education and centers around student-managed businesses. The center features several fully operational businesses that are open to the public, including a bank, convenience store, restaurant, day care, and dairy farm. The dairy farm has cows, chickens, goats, and a barn on campus.
Clubs, Programs & Organizations
AFJROTC
Alvirne is home to one of fewer than 800 units worldwide of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. [7]
Band
While Alvirne High School has always had a music program, the marching band and competitive concert bands began with the addition of Gerry Bastien to the music program in 1995. The marching band began as a volunteer pep band for the growing football program, continuing to become respected statewide for unique and challenging shows, even among larger high schools such as Londonderry High School and Salem High School. Throughout the years, the band has steadily grown from 32 members to well over 120, including a full-blown drumline, pit, and color guard. The concert band has also grown through the past decade, having gone to Walt Disney World and marched down Main Street U.S.A. in 2002 and 2006, and traveling to places like Maryland, Ohio, New York, Virginia, and Canada. The jazz ensemble (stage band) has become known worldwide, traveling with the marching band to Florida and going across the Atlantic to Germany in 2001 and 2006. The entire music department has also been hosting its annual "Cabaret" each spring for the last decade, starting at one performance to an entire three-performance weekend that the public raves about the entire year.[8]
Bronco Barn (School Store)
The Bronco Barn, Alvirne's School Store, is the only Hallmark Cards School Store in the United States. Besides selling food and drink items, the store sells student and faculty apparel, balloon orders, Hallmark cards and much more. It is operated by marketing students.[9]
Bronco Talk (Student Newspaper)
Alvirne High School's Student Newspaper is Bronco Talk. Alvirne's journalism classes support the newspaper by reporting on controversial issues and covering stories that are important to the community.[10] Bronco Talk has a website, currently designed and run by Sophomore Ben Naglieri, Bronco Talk Online. The website is current with the most recent issue of the newspaper, and also includes past issues of the newspaper. Also, among other features, businesses can find out how to advertise in Bronco Talk. [11]
Checker's Restaurant
Checker's is Alvirne's school restaurant. Students can pre-order and enjoy a restaurant-meal during their lunch period. Parents are also welcome to visit the restaurant. Checker's also hosts special occasions, such as alumni reunions and honor society inductions.[12]
Class Act (Theatre)
Class Act is Alvirne's school theatre program. The program really began again in spring 2001 when Jennifer LaFrance took over the program, then as a student teacher, and the following school year as an English teacher with the school. The first successful show to be put up in years, "Women and Wallace", took place in spring 2002. The year continued with "Arsenic and Old Lace" in the fall, and spring 2003 held "Rumors" in store. Fall 2003 was the first ever full musical to take place at Alvirne, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". That winter, Alvirne entered itself into the Regional New Hampshire Educational Theater Guild Festival with the play "Trifles." The year continued to a Spring of One-Acts: "Of Widows and Vegetables," "The Scheme of the Driftless Shifter" and "This is a Test." To begin the new school year in Fall of 2004, there was "Harvey," and preparations for entering into the Regional NHETG Festival again. The beginning of 2005 held auditions for the extremely successful play "Bang, Bang You're Dead." The troupe of 20 adventurous teenagers traveled to festival with this show and advanced from Regionals to States to New Englands, where the road stopped only because there is no competition to attend past the New England Drama Festival. The troupe also played to the entire high school and to the 7th and 8th grades in the middle school, and put on performances at night for the public and even traveled to the Youth Detention Center in nearby Manchester, NH. While staying busy with the powerful BBYD, Alvirne's "Class Act" also put together another night of One Acts for Spring 2005, with the plays of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "Check Please," and "Not All Love Stories Are Tragedies", which was written and directed by Senior/President Stephanie Long. The summer kept everyone busy with Alvirne's first summer of Shakespeare, with the students meeting and rehearsing "Much Ado About Nothing" to perform in August 2005. Class Act continued its successful rise in the 2005-2006 school year with "The Odd Couple," "Incident at San Bajo" (NHETG to States Festival), and "The Jester", adapted by the students from the movie to the stage. Class Act again had its Summer Shakespeare, this time with "Midsummer Nights' Dream." Class Act continued in the fall of 2006 with a radio version of A Christmas Carol. In the Spring of 2007 Class Act competed in the New Hampshire Edjucational Theatre Guild's drama festival with their show "100" directed by Alvirne alumnus Max Schloner. The show went on to win 3 awards and compete at the State level competition. "100" was followed by Class Act's "The Laramie Project" which taught about tolerance of others. Class Act is currently working on "Romeo and Juliet" which is to be performed in August.
Other clubs
Alvirne High School is noted for its achievements in academic competitions. It has won the Granite State Challenge championship three times, giving the school the status of being one of few multiple-time champions to have won every championship game appearance.[13] They also compete in the FIRST engineering competition.[14] Another notable club is the Model UN team, which recently participated in the 20th annual Model United Nations Conference at Bentley College. Several members of the team were recognized as "Distinguished delegates". A club not known very much about is the Gay Straight Alliance, run by April Rivers. It began small but is now known throughout the school and helps out for those who support the gay community, and many students, gay, straight or bisexual, are a part of this club, GSA.
Honor Societies
National Honor Society (NHS)
The National Honor Society at Alvirne is committed to excellence. Members are academically proficient, and are supporters of the Alvirne community. Members of the NHS volunteers around Alvirne and throughout Hudson in many different ways. More information about the NHS can be found on the NHS website: NHS
Société Honoraire de Français (SHF)
The Société Honoraire de Français (SHF), or French National Honor Society, was established at Alvirne in 2007. The first 16 members were inducted on Thursday February 22, 2007. The first members included three freshmen: Fionna Howes, Ben Naglieri, and Carla Toland. The other members are: Derek Beaulieu, Caitlin Chiqlin, Codi Clark, William Dibble, Stephanie Fincher, Stephanie Frasier, Santiago Isaza, Amanda Lavigeuer, Matt Lavigeuer, Matthew Martin, Micheal O'Keefe, and Marissa Rousseau. Members of the Société Honoraire de Français must have an A in a French class (French 2B or higher) and must maintain a B average in all other classes. Members of the SHF must strive to learn French and must be proficient speakers and writers of French.[15] More information can be found on the SHF's website.
Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (SHH)
The Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (SHH), or Spanish National Honor Society, held their first inductions in March 2007. Information about the SHH can be found on their website: SHH.
Athletics
Alvirne fields athletic teams in baseball, football, cheerleading, cross country, golf, soccer, volley ball, wrestling, tennis, softball, basketball, and track. Alvirne High went many decades without a football team, despite being one of the largest high schools in the state. It had long been rumored that the Hills' only son died during a football game and the school did not conduct a football program out of respect. After the 1974 fire, some residents questioned if the school should continue its "no football" tradition since the town would be rebuilding the school. It was assumed that such a stipulation was a condition of the high school's charter, however, when it was learned that this had never been recorded, local supporters encouraged the formation of a football team. In fall of 1994, Alvirne High School fielded its first Junior Varsity football team, with Varsity play beginning in 1996. Recently, an ice hockey and swimming programs were also added.
Trivia
Alvirne was listed in the 1980 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records[16]. Alvirne High School math students built a slide rule measuring 320 feet 11.1 inches in length. It was completed in March, 1979. The record was broken later that year by students at the University of Illinois.
Notable Alumni
- Kyle Jackson - Minor league baseball player drafted by the Boston Red Sox in 2001, he was, as of April 2007, on the team's 40-man roster.[17]
- Osten Taylor - Survivor: Pearl Islands contestant and first ever contestant to quit from the Survivor competition.[18]
- Jennifer Lavoie - August 1993 Playboy Playmate, charter member of the Playboy X-treme Team, and star of various Playboy videos.[19]
References
- ^ http://www.alvirnehs.org
- ^ http://www.areanewsgroup.com/archives/2006/0908/HLN.html Hudson History Unrolled: The Burning and Rebirth of Alvirne High School
- ^ http://www.sau81.org Hudson School District
- ^ http://www.alvirnehs.org/departments/administration.php
- ^ Alvirne High School departments, Retrieved November 2, 2006
- ^ Wilbur H. Palmer Vocational-Technical Center, Retrieved November 2, 2006
- ^ http://www.alvirnehs.org/voc/documents/07-08%20Program%20of%20Studies.pdf
- ^ http://www.ahsmusic.org/
- ^ http://www.alvirnehs.org/voc/documents/07-08%20Program%20of%20Studies.pdf
- ^ http://www.alvirnehs.org/voc/documents/07-08%20Program%20of%20Studies.pdf
- ^ http://www.ahsbroncotalk.org/
- ^ http://www.alvirnehs.org/voc/documents/07-08%20Program%20of%20Studies.pdf
- ^ Past GSC SuperChallenge Champions Retrieved November 2, 2006
- ^ Alvirne FIRST team profile Retrieved November 2, 2006
- ^ http://www.frenchteachers.org/hq/shf.htm
- ^ Guinness Book of World Records, 1980, Sterling Publishing Co, New York, NY USA.
- ^ [(Portland{ME} Sea Dogs
(http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/team/roster_40man.jsp?c_id=bos "Boston Red Sox 40-man Roster"]. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help); line feed character in|url=at position 23 (help) - ^ "Osten Taylor". Survivor Season 7 Biographies. CBS. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
- ^ "Jennifer Lavoie resume". JenniferLavoie.com. Retrieved 2007-04-02.