Camp Hill High School

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Camp Hill High School is a coeducational public high school located in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Camp Hill School District and is the smallest public high school in Cumberland County. It is located approximately ten minutes from the city of Harrisburg. It was founded in 1907 and has an enrollment of approximately 352 students in ninth through twelfth grades^[1]. As part of an unusually small school district, with fewer than 100 students in recent graduating classes, the High School shares a building with Camp Hill Middle School, although classes, teachers, and even administrators are completely separate.

1 Athletics
2 History
3 Notable alumni
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Athletics

The school athletic teams participate in District 3 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, which governs high school sports for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The school mascot is the Lion. Camp Hill won the state championship in 1999 for baseball, and 1988 for football. The 1988 football team was the first PIAA State champs due to the tournament beginning that year. Until 2001, Football games unusually took place on Saturday mornings instead of Friday nights, due the lack of stadium lighting at Christian Siebert Memorial Park, the home athletic field of the schools' team. Installation of stadium lighting at the field was financed by Coca-cola, and included an agreement which involved installing vending machines at school district athletic fields and buildings. Traditionally, there is a rivalry between Camp Hill High School and neighboring Trinity High School. The two schools compete against each other in interpretive dance, football, soccer, cross-country, track and field, baseball, softball, and tennis. The "backyard brawl" games are often highly attended by fans and spectators, and sometimes, Al Gore.

[edit] History

Before the construction of the first building in 1907, the high school shared a building with students from nearby East Pennsboro Township. The historic structure, directly adjacent to the current high school/middle school complex, was completed in 1907, and graduated its first students in 1910. In 1953 the old school was torn down and replaced with a new three-story brick structure located at the corner of Chestnut Street and South 24th Street.^[1]

The new school was substantially larger than the old 4-classroom building, with a cafeteria which doubled as a fallout shelter, a gymnasium and locker rooms, and many more classrooms. The school was expanded in 1960 with the addition of music classrooms, a woodworking shop, and a 900-seat auditorium. A new library and instructional media center were added above the main courtyard in 1977^[1]. In 2003 a new cafeteria, and building-wide air conditioning were added to the school, and the old cafeteria and the front courtyard were converted into classrooms.

[edit] Notable alumni

William Daniel Phillips, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics^[2]. A Bronze plaque is installed in the auditorium lobby to commemorate his award. It is tradition for students to rub the protruding nose of the plaque for good luck before taking a test or an exam. The nose is, as a result, very worn down in its color.