Hall High School (Connecticut)
| William H. Hall High School | |
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| Address | |
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975 North Main Street West Hartford, Connecticut 06117 United States | |
| Coordinates | 41°47′41″N 72°45′05″W / 41.7946°N 72.7513°WCoordinates: 41°47′41″N 72°45′05″W / 41.7946°N 72.7513°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | 'Live like a Warrior.' |
| Established | 1924[1] |
| Founder | William H. Hall |
| School district | West Hartford Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Tom Moore |
| Principal | Dan Zittoun |
| Faculty | 102 (2014) |
| Grades | 9 - 12 |
| Number of students | 1531 (2014)[2] |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Team name | Warriors |
| Rivals | Conard High School |
| Newspaper | Hall Highlights |
| Yearbook | Hallmarks |
| Website | HHS Homepage |
William H. Hall High School, also known as Hall High, is a four-year public high school located in West Hartford, in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The school colors are blue and white, and the mascot is the "Warrior." It is one of two public high schools in the West Hartford Public Schools, the other being Conard High School. Enrollment in grades 9–12 for the 2006–2007 school year was 2,604 students.
Athletics and clubs
Hall has a long running, cross-town rivalry against Conard High School competing in the Central Connecticut Conference in the West Division.They met that record again in 2011 and 2013. [3][4] The team was also the Central Connecticut Conference Champions in 2011 and again in 2013. In soccer, Hall won the 1980 state championship 3-2 over E. O. Smith High School. The school also reached the semifinals of the state tournament four times under head coach Zeke Seguro, who won his 150th game as coach on October 10, 2008 with a 1-0 victory at South Windsor. Hall's boys' cross country team has won the Central Connecticut Conference three years in a row dating back to 2012. [5] As of 2013, the girls' swimming and diving team had recorded 29 consecutive wins.
Hall has a renowned jazz program, which stage an annual production called Pops 'n' Jazz, regularly selling over 3,000 tickets every year. They have also won the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival twice, in 1998 and 2000. The band has performed for the president at the White House, appeared in Ken Burns's documentary film ''Jazz'' and shared the stage with countless jazz luminaries, including Count Basie Orchestra, Winton Marsalis Jimmy Heath, Ted Nash, Arturo O'Farrell, Phil Woods and Joe Lovano.[6]
Academic accomplishments
- Recognized by Newsweek as one of the nation's top (No. 855) high schools.[7]
- Blue Ribbon School in 1984-85.[8]
- Recognized in the November 2008 Issue of Connecticut Magazine as the 13th best school in the state of Connecticut.[9]
- Awarded a Gold Medal by U.S. News as one of the top high schools in the country (#322) and 6th Best in Connecticut in 2012.[10]
Notable alumni
- Natalie Anderson, Survivor: San Juan Del Sur winner
- David Alan Basche, actor (United 93, War of the Worlds)
- Jeff Bleich, United States Ambassador to Australia (2009-2013), class of 1979
- Chris Carrabba, musician and lead singer of the band Dashboard Confessional attended freshman year
- Matthew Eisenfeld, was killed in the Jerusalem bus 18 massacres
- Andy Fleischmann, politician, Connecticut State General Assembly
- Wavy Gravy, activist and comic
- Jacob Goldman, president and founder of 10up
- Michael Grynbaum, journalist, The New York Times
- Jonathan Harris (politician), former Connecticut State Senator
- Grayson Hugh, singer/songwriter
- Charlie Kaufman, Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Being John Malkovich)
- Marc Lasry, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks
- Frank Luntz, The New York Times best-selling author, Fox News correspondent, Communication Consultant Company President, and political pollster
- Brad Mehldau, jazz pianist
- Ken Ober, actor, game show host, comedian
- Brian Rosenworcel, musician and member of the band Guster
- Jessica Rosenworcel, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
- Sara Roy, Middle East scholar[11]
- Michael Schur, writer and producer (The Office, Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation
- Scott Slifka, West Hartford mayor
- Roger Sperry, neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize laureate[12]
- David H. Steinberg, screenwriter (Slackers, American Pie 2, Puss In Boots, American Pie: Book of Love)
- Peter McGuinness, Grammy nominated jazz trombonist
- Erica von Kleist, a renowned flautist, saxophonist, composer and educator
References
- ↑ "West Hartford Public Schools". West Hartford Library. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "William H. Hall High School in WEST HARTFORD, CT | Best High Schools". US News. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "2013 - Division I-West". Central Connecticut Conference. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "2011 - Division I-West". Central Connecticut Conference. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "2013 CCC Championship Meet Results". Centralconnecticutconference.org. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ Staudter, Thomas (2001-05-13). "Not Just Another School Band Recital". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑
- ↑ Blue Ribbon Schools: 1982-2002 Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081230225951/http://www.connecticutmag.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20200464&BRD=2329&PAG=461&dept_id=484827&rfi=6. Archived from the original on December 30, 2008. Retrieved March 3, 2010. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "William H. Hall High School in WEST HARTFORD, CT | Best High Schools". US News. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "Research Associates | Center for Middle Eastern Studies". Cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "Roger W. Sperry - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2016-03-12.