Alhambra High School

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name=Alhambra High School


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established= 1898
type= Public
district= Alhambra Unified School District
grades= 9-12
principal= Brad Walsh
enrollment= Approx. 3,400
mascot= The (Mighty) Moor
colors= Blue and Gold
location= 101 South 2nd Street
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website= [http://www.ahsmoors.org// www.ahsmoors.org]

Alhambra High School is a secondary school located at 101 South Second Street in Alhambra, California, USA. It is the largest secondary school in the Alhambra Unified School District. Situated in the downtown area of Alhambra, it has easy access to the public library and many of the major and popular stores and markets in the city.

Incidents

In April 2005, a controversial article was published by "The Moor", the school's biweekly newspaper. The article, written by Robin Zhou, titled "Latinos Lag Behind in Academics", [ [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-alhambra12oct12-robin-zhou,1,2281389.htmlstory Latinos Lag Behind in Academics - Los Angeles Times] ] asked why many students in Advanced Placement classes were Asian, and bluntly stated that Asians worked much harder in academics than Hispanic students. Zhou's article attempted to discuss the roots of this phenomenon, although many Latino students and parents were up in arms over his assertion that Asians do better in school because of parental pressure that Latino students do not experience. "See also: Model minority"

On October 11, 2006, an explosive device was found on a sidewalk bordering the north end of campus. Hours later, a second similar device was found in a trash can on the south end of campus. The Los Angeles County sheriff's bomb squad safely removed and disabled both items, and the campus was searched. [ [http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_4485422 Pasadena Star-News - Bomb scare at school] ] Dead link|date=June 2008 [ [http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=4654357 abc7.com: Bomb Squad Calls Off Search at Alhambra High School 10/13/06] ] [http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-alhambra,0,4560606.story?coll=ktla-news-1]

Extracurricular Activities

Athletics

In 2002 the wrestling team, ended an undefeated season of (23-0) which culminated in its first CIF championship. The school's football team won a league championship in 2002 and 2006. The Alhambra baseball team, won back-to-back-to-back league championships in 2005 and 2006 and 2007. The 2006 team finished with a new school record of 4-22.

Dance Teams

Alhambra High School drill and dance teams have represented the United States in Miss Drill Team International competitions held around the world, most recently in Japan and Australia. Alhambra dancers often compete in and win solo competitions in Miss Drill Team USA and National Street Dance USA. Alhambra High School has consecutively won competitions throughout California. Alhambra High School itself is home to the Elementary Drill Team USA competition, a Miss Dance Drill Team USA dance/drill team and pep art event.

Alhambra High School also has an All-Male Dance Team, which regularly competes in and around Southern California, in addition to participation in the National Street Dance USA competition.

Alhambra High School Orchesis, the high school dance team, has recently also begun competing; although they are still mainly performance-, not competition-oriented, they have also been successful.

Visual and Performing Arts

The Mighty Moor Marching Band has won countless, among countless awards and honors in it's 87 year history. Under the current direction of Mark Trulson, the Mighty Moor Band along with the marching bands of Mark Keppel High School and San Gabriel High School, perform together as the Alhambra Unified School District Band. This band has been given the prestige honor of marching in the upcoming 2009 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. It has been over 40 years since a marching band from the city of Alhambra has performed in this parade. The Mighty Moor Marching Band were regular Rose Parade participants in the 1950's and 1960's. [http://www.ausdband.com// www.ausdband.com]

tudent Organizations

Numerous clubs, all overseen by the ASB are established within the school campus.

Executive

ASB Executive is a 13-member council which oversees all activities of Alhambra High School. Each member is a representative of a department in the school, such as boys' athletics, fine arts, or visual and performing arts. The Directors of Boys and Girls immediately become presidents of the Girls League and Boys Federation, clubs which organize and host much of the school's events. Members are elected at the end of each semester.

ASB also has a legislative branch, consisting of one member from each third-period class, and elected each semester. Meeting bi-weekly, members speak and vote on issues affecting the school. It is headed by the Speaker of the Legislature.

The Director of Clubs oversees the Interclub Council, consisting of the presidents and other liaisons of each service club. The ICC plans services and is the final authority for entrance of new members in service clubs.

ervice Clubs

There are currently ten service clubs on campus, some of which are branches of larger service organizations.

*LEO is an acronym for Leadership, Experience and Opportunity, the high school division of Lions Clubs International.
*Key Club is a branch associate of Key Club International, the high school division of Kiwanis.
*Interact is one of the three major national clubs, the high school division of Rotary International.
*Las Moras is translated as "Lady Moors" in Spanish, and is sponsored by Soroptimists International. It was an all-girls club until 2006.
*Junior Civitan is the high school division of Civitan International.
*Campus is historically, Alhambra High's oldest club, founded in 1945.
*EMEGA, a service club that primarily serves the San Gabriel Valley.
*Kaibigan, primarily serving the city of Alhambra. The name is a Tagalog word for friendship.
*Kokua Lima, a service club primarily serving the animal community
*Pequenitas, formerly an all-girls service club, is translated as "the little ones" in Spanish.

Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y Clubs

Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs, are affiliated with the West San Gabriel Valley YMCA and are not a part of the ASB club system. These are service oriented clubs. There are currently seven which are associated with the Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y system.

*Laule'a
*Le Aikanes
*Les Petites Amies
*Na Ali'i
*Nous Retrouvons
*Ohana Hui
*Sonzai Eikyo

Other Organizations

Clubs registered as of 2008 are listed below.

Academic

*Academic Decathlon
*Academy of Future Educators
*American Society of Engineers and Architects (A.S.E.A.)
*Biophiliacs
*Biomed
*MESA
*Speech and Debate
*FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America)
*Physics Club
*Science Olympiad
*Mu Alpha Theta (ΜΑΘ)
*The Moor Newspaper

Leadership

*Boys Federation
*Clean Campus Committee
*ASB Card Committee
*Election Committee (Temporarily defunct)
*Girls League
*Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior Councils

Visual and Performing Arts

*All Male Dance Team
*AHS Choir
*Asian Dance Club
*Choir
*ComedySportz
*Drill Team
*Moor Jazz Band
*Mighty Moor Marching Band
*Colorguard
*Orchesis Dance Team
*Song
*Cheer
*Tri-M Music Honor Society
*Drama/Stage Crew
*Tri-City Orchestra

Extracurricular Activities Participated as a Class

*Executive (see above)
*"The Moor" Newspaper
*"The Alhambran" Yearbook
*AVID

Interest Clubs

*Alhambra Campfire USA
*Blocwork
*Chinese International
*Club De Las Americas
*FHA-HERO (Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America)
*Cornerstone Christian Club
*Emergencies and Accidents Club
*EmpoWORD
*ERAS (Environmental Resource Awareness Society)
*Film Society
*French Club
*Frame By Frame
*Kidshare
*Law Society
*MEChA
*Moor Buddies
*Otaku! Anime Club
*Peace Club
*Pride Alliance
*Red Cross
*Rubik's 3 (Read as "cubed")
*SAVE (Student Advocates for Voter Empowerment)
*Shaolin Kungfu Club
*Skills USA
*Smashizzle
*Song
*Tennis Club
*The Mushroom Kingdom (Postponed, still looking for a new location)
*VSA (Vietnamese Student Association)
*VISA
*Virtual Enterprises Club

Notable Alumni

*Kevin Cheng, Chinese Actor
*Jack Chick, artist
*Clive Cussler, novelist
*John C. England, Medal of Honor recipient
*Stan Freberg, voice actor
*Hardie Gramatky, watercolorist
*James Jannard, businessman
*Aaron Krach, novelist, artist, magazine editor
*Dorothy Howell Rodham, homemaker and mother of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
*Cheryl Tiegs, model
*Mickey Thompson, racecar driver
*Jim Tunney, American football official, author, motivational speaker
*Verne Winchell, businessman
*Mike Woo, politician
*Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese-American actor
*Leo Carroll, [ [http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=CARROLEO01 Leo Carroll Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com ] ] NFL football player
*Tex Schramm, former manager Dallas Cowboys (NFL)
*Sam Hanks, Alumnus 1933, winner of the 1957 Indianapolis 500 and inducted into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame in 1981.

In television and media

*In early 2007, Alhambra High School played host to one of the cooking challenges for Season Three of the FOX reality series "Hell's Kitchen", the episode airing on July 23rd as the eighth episode of the series, and made an encore presentation on the following Monday. 100 members from the senior class of 2007 who were randomly selected by the Executive board, including the Executive members themselves, were invited to participate. Each chef, individually had to prepare 100 portions of a dish for each of the seniors. [ [http://www.fox.com/hellskitchen/recaps/308.htm Fox.com - Hell's Kitchen - Episode 3.08 recap] ]

References

External links

* [http://ahs.alhambra.k12.ca.us/ Alhambra High School website]
* [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/909902221.html?dids=909902221:909902221&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+12%2C+2005&author=Jia-Rui+Chong&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=A.1&desc=COLUMN+ONE%3B+Morphing+Outrage+Into+Ideas%3B+Search+for+solutions+is+born+out+of+anger+over+a+student+newspaper+piece+about+the+Latino-+Asian+academic+gap+at+Alhambra+High+School. Morphing Outrage Into Ideas] "Los Angeles Times"
* [http://www.alhambrahigh96.com/ Alhambra High School class of 1996 site]