Brea Olinda High School
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Brea Olinda High School is a 9th–12th grade public high school
located in Brea, California
. Established in 1927, the school was originally located across the street from the Brea Mall
in what has become the Brea Marketplace. In 1989, the school moved to its current location on the north end of Brea. The school has a current enrollment of approximately 2,100 students. The school is part of the Brea Olinda Unified School District
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Eight honors courses and fifteen Advanced Placement courses are offered, including AP English Literature, English Language, French, Spanish, European History, American History, Government, Economics, Statistics, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Environmental Science. Many students take an optional seventh period for electives like ROP photography and police science, drawing, ceramics, woodshop, drama, instrumental music and choir. In the fall of 2005, the school launched the Global IT Academy, an accelerated program in emerging technologies enhanced through global partnerships in education and business.
North Orange County was home to secondary students as early as the late 19th century, but their only choice for 9-12 schooling was south at Fullerton High. In 1898 and 1903, respectively, residents of the oil town of Olinda and of the oil camps that would become Brea created their own K-8 school districts. It would still take more than two decades for a high school to come to town. Meanwhile, Brea and Olinda high school students kept heading south to Fullerton, first traveling in horse-drawn wagons, and later riding the trolley line's red cars.
Changes at Fullerton High in the 1920s, including cutbacks in such locally popular courses as oil production and horticulture, were unpopular. Brea's civic leaders, reevaluated their town's growing student population and took steps to create a new high school district in northern Orange County. Early efforts to unite Brea with La Habra and Olinda to create a high school failed. La Habra soon was dropped from the plan, and Olinda lodged protests as well, but the topic was settled at the ballot box in March, 1925, when the Brea-Olinda Union High School District was formed.
Architectural plans including an ornate portico and columns framing the school's impressive entryway were adopted with a single change---the elimination of twin towers planned to crown the main building. Construction began immediately on the campus, and included a two-story building with offices, an auditorium, a cafeteria and classrooms, as well as a separate manual arts building and a gymnasium. Built with bricks made of local Brea clay, the 23 acres (93,077.8 m²) campus was completed within a year, and opened to students on September 14, 1927.
In its first full year of operation, Brea-Olinda Union High adopted a mascot, the Wildcat, published a small yearbook, the Gusher, gained a Principal, Carl Harvey, and found its first football success with coach Steward 'Shorty' Smith. In June, the new school had its first graduating class of 21 students, the "Class of 1928."
The beauty of the high school paid a high price for such safety, as its ornate facade was removed and its stately columns carted away. More serious and costly repairs were required inside, as steel beams were inserted in walls and ceilings were stabilized. Dedicated just six years earlier, Brea-Olinda Union High required repairs that equaled almost its entire construction cost. During 20 noisy months of renovation, students studied outside in four huge tents on the school's east lawn.
In the early years of the high school, there were exciting events: in the early 1930s the 100-member combined grammar/high school marching band donned white slacks and shirts, sombreros and gold sashes and set off to play at Los Angeles' nearly new Coliseum. In 1939, student Bill Griffith raced away with top honors at Southern California's soap box derby.
The small school farm that grew first to 30, then to 43, and finally to 65 acres (263,045.9 m²). The second expansion came as the result of a controversial decision when Brea (elementary) School District bought a citrus grove just east of the high school for a proposed, but never built, elementary school. Purchased for $20,000, this land later earned Brea schools a sizable profit when it was sold in the early 1980s at a price tag of $2.5 million.
The decade that thrived on quiet ended instead with excitement, when, in 1959, the school opened a new stadium, pool and boys' gym.
A county-wide educational reform movement in the mid-1960s promoted the unification of small school districts, and the three then operating within Brea's borders (Brea Olinda Union High School, Brea elementary and Olinda elementary) united to form the Brea-Olinda Unified School District. The City of Brea celebrated its 50th birthday the following year, building a massive stage on the BOHS football field to present the Brea Story, a five-night, 90-minute extravaganza of local history dramatized by a cast of more than 400.
Gary Goff became principal in 1966, and planning for major campus improvements soon followed. By 1969, the Main, Fine Arts and Industrial Arts buildings were refurbished, and a second story of classrooms was added above the auditorium.
Across the world, the Vietnam War
escalated, and Brea students reached out to serve those in need. Focusing on prisoners of war or those declared missing in action, students engaged in letter-writing efforts and a fund-raising swim meet, and 450 took part in a walkathon to Knott's Berry Farm. A national POW/MIA remembrance-bracelet campaign kicked off at BOHS, with the chairman of the National League of Families (Carol Hanson, wife of Brea Marine pilot/POW Captain Stephen Hanson) and actor Patrick Wayne
appearing at the opening ceremonies. Captain Hanson later was declared killed in action, and a continuing BOHS scholarship was established in his name.
By the mid-1980s, the BOHS campus was filled to overflowing with 1,400 students and 19 portable buildings. Seeking solutions, the district invited developers to submit proposals for either improving this crowded campus or building an entirely new school.
The 50 acres (202,343 m²) new high-school site, long part of Union Oil’s lucrative Stearns Lease, was selected over 12 other properties for value and location. On Nov. 1, 1986, a parade of yellow buses pulled up a steep slope to a small plot of level land, where groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the new Brea Olinda High School. More than 250000 cubic yards (191,138.7 m³) of dirt had to be moved before construction could begin. Superintendent of Schools Edgar Z. Seal spearheaded the school-building effort, former principal Gary Goff served as project manager, and Goff and Jeanne Sullivan teamed as co-principals in 1989 as construction ended and the new campus opened.
To symbolically connect BOHS’s first and second sites, the Birch Street school’s cornerstone was removed and split, and the surface created this way was polished and engraved as the new school’s cornerstone. Both blocks today are located in the new school’s inner quad. Standing guard at its entry is an updated bronze mascot, the Wildcat, carved in an outdoor studio on campus by the City of Brea’s 1991 Artist in Residence, Carlos Terres.
With the new campus built, the old high school hosted an alumni “Last Hurrah,” and demolition crews moved in on its 63-year-old campus. A poster was commissioned to commemorate it, its bricks were salvaged and sold as souvenirs, and its former site was marked in the Marketplace by the BOHS Walk of Fame.
The 1980s and 1990s were strong years for Brea athletics; virtually every team won annual Orange League Championships. CIF Southern Section Championships followed in boys’ soccer, swimming and gymnastics, and girls’ swimming and basketball. Brea’s girls’ basketball took its first run to the top in 1989, winning the California State Championship. Seven repeat Ladycat State Championships followed, from 1991–94 and 1998-2000. In 1994, the Ladycats, www.ladycatbball.com, went on to win the National Championship. The Ladycats claimed sixteen CIF championships (1986, 1989–1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009). In 2004-2005, the Ladycats were Century League Champions - with an impressive 181 consecutive league wins since 1984. From 1980 to 2001, the Ladycats claimed 594 wins and only 68 losses.
A series of principals steered the school through this era, starting with John Johnson (1991–94), and followed by Kathy Beard (1994–99), Doug Kimberly (1999–2003), and Jerry Halpin, hired in 2003.
BOHS earned California Distinguished School honors in 1991. In 1993, it was named a National Blue Ribbon School, one of only 18 middle and high schools in California and 260 schools nationwide earning the prestigious award that year. Honors continued as history teacher/coach Jeff Sink was selected as an Orange County Teacher of the Year (1998), BOHS was again named a California Distinguished School (1999), math teacher Scott Malloy was named Orange County and California Teacher of the Year (2000), and Wildcat Football took the Southern Section championship for the first time in 38 years (2001). The Brea Yearbook, the Gusher was awarded the Gold Crown in 1996, an award for Theme and Cover, Cover Design, End Sheets, and Organization Spread in 1997, Feature Photo and Index in 1998 from Columbia Scholastic Press Association
.
With growth in the community once again causing a strain on facilities, the Board of Education once again has begun studying plans for expansion. A rendering of a new classroom wing was presented to the board by LPA Architects on Oct. 10, 2005, and groundbreaking for this project is expected in mid-2006.
In 1994, an audit found that 287 student had had their transcripts altered. Grades that initially had been Ds or above had their grades changed to pass when they repeated the class allowing students to graduate without completing required courses.
In 1998, juniors stole and passed around a copy of an honors physics test. The junior class president was one of several students implicated and received a failing grade in physics. Also in 1998, a valedictorian
was stripped of his title and barred from graduation proceedings after changing his grade and those of several friends in AP English to an A and lowering the grade of the future valedictorian while working as a teachers aide. The teacher only discovered the grade changes after noticing that the future valedictorian's record showed her receiving a B on a test, leading her to investigate her other students' grades.
Additionally, members of the Brea Olinda Staff have come under fire due to scandals involving student-teacher relationships, and the use of drugs by an athletic coach ending in a police pursuit to minors.
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High school
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located in Brea, California
Brea, California
Brea is a city in Orange County, California. The population, as of the 2010 Census was 39,282.The city began as a center of crude oil production, was later propelled by citrus production, and is now an important retail center because of the large Brea Mall and the recently redeveloped Brea Downtown...
. Established in 1927, the school was originally located across the street from the Brea Mall
Brea Mall
The Brea Mall is a shopping mall located in the Orange County city of Brea, California. Since 1998 the mall has been owned and operated by the Simon Property Group. It is home to four major department stores, over 175 specialty shops and boutiques, and a food court. It is approximately 1,310,000...
in what has become the Brea Marketplace. In 1989, the school moved to its current location on the north end of Brea. The school has a current enrollment of approximately 2,100 students. The school is part of the Brea Olinda Unified School District
Brea Olinda Unified School District
Brea Olinda Unified School District is the school district serving the City of Brea in Orange County, California, United States. It also serves portions of the nearby cities of Fullerton, Yorba Linda and La Habra.The school district consists of:...
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Eight honors courses and fifteen Advanced Placement courses are offered, including AP English Literature, English Language, French, Spanish, European History, American History, Government, Economics, Statistics, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Environmental Science. Many students take an optional seventh period for electives like ROP photography and police science, drawing, ceramics, woodshop, drama, instrumental music and choir. In the fall of 2005, the school launched the Global IT Academy, an accelerated program in emerging technologies enhanced through global partnerships in education and business.
History
The history of BOHS precedes the school's opening at its current site in 1989.North Orange County was home to secondary students as early as the late 19th century, but their only choice for 9-12 schooling was south at Fullerton High. In 1898 and 1903, respectively, residents of the oil town of Olinda and of the oil camps that would become Brea created their own K-8 school districts. It would still take more than two decades for a high school to come to town. Meanwhile, Brea and Olinda high school students kept heading south to Fullerton, first traveling in horse-drawn wagons, and later riding the trolley line's red cars.
Changes at Fullerton High in the 1920s, including cutbacks in such locally popular courses as oil production and horticulture, were unpopular. Brea's civic leaders, reevaluated their town's growing student population and took steps to create a new high school district in northern Orange County. Early efforts to unite Brea with La Habra and Olinda to create a high school failed. La Habra soon was dropped from the plan, and Olinda lodged protests as well, but the topic was settled at the ballot box in March, 1925, when the Brea-Olinda Union High School District was formed.
Barley and Brick
Ninety Brea-Olinda freshmen and sophomores soon began attending the new district's first secondary classes, held that fall on the campus of Brea Grammar School (now Brea Junior High) under the direction of principal I.W. Barnett. Backed by business leaders, bonds of $320,000 were approved for construction of a new high school, but controversy raged over where it should be built. Olindans solidly backed a rural site deemed too far out of town by most Breans, but Olinda's vote carried the day. By 1926, Brea-Olinda Union High began construction in a barley field on the east side of the city.Architectural plans including an ornate portico and columns framing the school's impressive entryway were adopted with a single change---the elimination of twin towers planned to crown the main building. Construction began immediately on the campus, and included a two-story building with offices, an auditorium, a cafeteria and classrooms, as well as a separate manual arts building and a gymnasium. Built with bricks made of local Brea clay, the 23 acres (93,077.8 m²) campus was completed within a year, and opened to students on September 14, 1927.
Pride of the Wildcats
Early campus curricular offerings included today's standard subjects, plus heavy doses of manual training for boys, and domestic arts and sciences for girls. Part of the Brea Grammar School building where the first local high school classes were held soon was moved to the new school and renamed the 'Practice House.' This cottage near the edge of campus was the only known full-scale, self-contained home economics lab in Orange County.In its first full year of operation, Brea-Olinda Union High adopted a mascot, the Wildcat, published a small yearbook, the Gusher, gained a Principal, Carl Harvey, and found its first football success with coach Steward 'Shorty' Smith. In June, the new school had its first graduating class of 21 students, the "Class of 1928."
Hard Times hit Home
The Great Depression left few marks on Brea, but the after effect of a 1933 natural disaster changed the face of its schools. Although the district's buildings suffered little apparent damage in the Long Beach Earthquake, they all soon were targeted for massive redesign as legislators drafted the Field Act, calling for stringent new rules on academic structures.The beauty of the high school paid a high price for such safety, as its ornate facade was removed and its stately columns carted away. More serious and costly repairs were required inside, as steel beams were inserted in walls and ceilings were stabilized. Dedicated just six years earlier, Brea-Olinda Union High required repairs that equaled almost its entire construction cost. During 20 noisy months of renovation, students studied outside in four huge tents on the school's east lawn.
In the early years of the high school, there were exciting events: in the early 1930s the 100-member combined grammar/high school marching band donned white slacks and shirts, sombreros and gold sashes and set off to play at Los Angeles' nearly new Coliseum. In 1939, student Bill Griffith raced away with top honors at Southern California's soap box derby.
The War and More
As many other schools did during the war, campus clubs planted victory gardens, supervised salvage drives, organized community-soldier dances and maintained the city's service flag, which hung in the school's main hallway and marked the names of those serving their country. Students and staff members alike sold war bonds and stamps in spirited drives highlighted by contests, rallies and assemblies featuring military personnel.The Forties and Fifties
Changes in leadership, curriculum and the campus marked the post-war years. Principal Carl Harvey, whose 18-year career stretched back almost to the school's beginning, left in 1946 and was succeeded by Frank O. Hopkins. Brea-Olinda in 1947 became one of the first two high schools in California to implement both driver education and driver training, newly mandated for all 16-year-olds seeking a license.The small school farm that grew first to 30, then to 43, and finally to 65 acres (263,045.9 m²). The second expansion came as the result of a controversial decision when Brea (elementary) School District bought a citrus grove just east of the high school for a proposed, but never built, elementary school. Purchased for $20,000, this land later earned Brea schools a sizable profit when it was sold in the early 1980s at a price tag of $2.5 million.
The decade that thrived on quiet ended instead with excitement, when, in 1959, the school opened a new stadium, pool and boys' gym.
Celebration, Unification, and Support
Victor Hassing signed on as the school's new principal in 1961. Wildcat football dominated its league in the early years of the 60's, racking up three more CIF A-division championships between 1961 and 1963.A county-wide educational reform movement in the mid-1960s promoted the unification of small school districts, and the three then operating within Brea's borders (Brea Olinda Union High School, Brea elementary and Olinda elementary) united to form the Brea-Olinda Unified School District. The City of Brea celebrated its 50th birthday the following year, building a massive stage on the BOHS football field to present the Brea Story, a five-night, 90-minute extravaganza of local history dramatized by a cast of more than 400.
Gary Goff became principal in 1966, and planning for major campus improvements soon followed. By 1969, the Main, Fine Arts and Industrial Arts buildings were refurbished, and a second story of classrooms was added above the auditorium.
Across the world, the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
escalated, and Brea students reached out to serve those in need. Focusing on prisoners of war or those declared missing in action, students engaged in letter-writing efforts and a fund-raising swim meet, and 450 took part in a walkathon to Knott's Berry Farm. A national POW/MIA remembrance-bracelet campaign kicked off at BOHS, with the chairman of the National League of Families (Carol Hanson, wife of Brea Marine pilot/POW Captain Stephen Hanson) and actor Patrick Wayne
Patrick Wayne
Patrick John Morrison, better known by his stage name Patrick Wayne , is an American actor, the second son of movie star John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz. He made over 40 films in his career, including nine with his father...
appearing at the opening ceremonies. Captain Hanson later was declared killed in action, and a continuing BOHS scholarship was established in his name.
A New Beginning
BOHS signed on its first female principal, Sue Rainey, in 1980. Its second, Jeanne Sullivan, assumed leadership in 1986.By the mid-1980s, the BOHS campus was filled to overflowing with 1,400 students and 19 portable buildings. Seeking solutions, the district invited developers to submit proposals for either improving this crowded campus or building an entirely new school.
The 50 acres (202,343 m²) new high-school site, long part of Union Oil’s lucrative Stearns Lease, was selected over 12 other properties for value and location. On Nov. 1, 1986, a parade of yellow buses pulled up a steep slope to a small plot of level land, where groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the new Brea Olinda High School. More than 250000 cubic yards (191,138.7 m³) of dirt had to be moved before construction could begin. Superintendent of Schools Edgar Z. Seal spearheaded the school-building effort, former principal Gary Goff served as project manager, and Goff and Jeanne Sullivan teamed as co-principals in 1989 as construction ended and the new campus opened.
Hilltop High
Seven years from the start of planning and three years after ground was broken, Brea Olinda’s state-of-the-art, $35-million campus opened in September 1989 as the first public high school in California built without state aid and at no cost to local taxpayers. Featuring a stadium, swimming pool, all-weather track, multiple gyms, a 350-seat performing arts center and classroom space for 2,000, it lost a planned ornamental tower due to budget cuts (just as the first BOHS had) yet still took design honors from the American Institute of Architects.To symbolically connect BOHS’s first and second sites, the Birch Street school’s cornerstone was removed and split, and the surface created this way was polished and engraved as the new school’s cornerstone. Both blocks today are located in the new school’s inner quad. Standing guard at its entry is an updated bronze mascot, the Wildcat, carved in an outdoor studio on campus by the City of Brea’s 1991 Artist in Residence, Carlos Terres.
With the new campus built, the old high school hosted an alumni “Last Hurrah,” and demolition crews moved in on its 63-year-old campus. A poster was commissioned to commemorate it, its bricks were salvaged and sold as souvenirs, and its former site was marked in the Marketplace by the BOHS Walk of Fame.
Decades of Success
The new campus celebrated by hosting the Harlem Globetrotters at a benefit game in the gym, and inaugurating its Performing Arts Center with a performance by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. In 1994, BOHS became the first high school in California to be connected to internet (through the Gopher), and the campus and its cutting-edge PacBell Knowledge Network were spotlighted in a commercial broadcast during the Super Bowl.The 1980s and 1990s were strong years for Brea athletics; virtually every team won annual Orange League Championships. CIF Southern Section Championships followed in boys’ soccer, swimming and gymnastics, and girls’ swimming and basketball. Brea’s girls’ basketball took its first run to the top in 1989, winning the California State Championship. Seven repeat Ladycat State Championships followed, from 1991–94 and 1998-2000. In 1994, the Ladycats, www.ladycatbball.com, went on to win the National Championship. The Ladycats claimed sixteen CIF championships (1986, 1989–1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009). In 2004-2005, the Ladycats were Century League Champions - with an impressive 181 consecutive league wins since 1984. From 1980 to 2001, the Ladycats claimed 594 wins and only 68 losses.
A series of principals steered the school through this era, starting with John Johnson (1991–94), and followed by Kathy Beard (1994–99), Doug Kimberly (1999–2003), and Jerry Halpin, hired in 2003.
BOHS earned California Distinguished School honors in 1991. In 1993, it was named a National Blue Ribbon School, one of only 18 middle and high schools in California and 260 schools nationwide earning the prestigious award that year. Honors continued as history teacher/coach Jeff Sink was selected as an Orange County Teacher of the Year (1998), BOHS was again named a California Distinguished School (1999), math teacher Scott Malloy was named Orange County and California Teacher of the Year (2000), and Wildcat Football took the Southern Section championship for the first time in 38 years (2001). The Brea Yearbook, the Gusher was awarded the Gold Crown in 1996, an award for Theme and Cover, Cover Design, End Sheets, and Organization Spread in 1997, Feature Photo and Index in 1998 from Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
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With growth in the community once again causing a strain on facilities, the Board of Education once again has begun studying plans for expansion. A rendering of a new classroom wing was presented to the board by LPA Architects on Oct. 10, 2005, and groundbreaking for this project is expected in mid-2006.
Scandals
Several scandals occurred in the 1990s, including grade changing and plagiarism by valedictorians, student council members, and administration.In 1994, an audit found that 287 student had had their transcripts altered. Grades that initially had been Ds or above had their grades changed to pass when they repeated the class allowing students to graduate without completing required courses.
In 1998, juniors stole and passed around a copy of an honors physics test. The junior class president was one of several students implicated and received a failing grade in physics. Also in 1998, a valedictorian
Valedictorian
Valedictorian is an academic title conferred upon the student who delivers the closing or farewell statement at a graduation ceremony. Usually, the valedictorian is the highest ranked student among those graduating from an educational institution...
was stripped of his title and barred from graduation proceedings after changing his grade and those of several friends in AP English to an A and lowering the grade of the future valedictorian while working as a teachers aide. The teacher only discovered the grade changes after noticing that the future valedictorian's record showed her receiving a B on a test, leading her to investigate her other students' grades.
Additionally, members of the Brea Olinda Staff have come under fire due to scandals involving student-teacher relationships, and the use of drugs by an athletic coach ending in a police pursuit to minors.
CIF Championships
- Football (1961–1963, (A-Division))
- Girls Basketball (1986, 1989–1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009
, 2010)
- Boys Soccer (1986, 2001)
- Girls Basketball (1989)
- Boys Cross Country (2010)
- Girls Swimming (2001–2002)
- Football (1959, Small Schools)
Notable alumni
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, Class of 1999: convicted murderer - Randy JonesRandy Jones (baseball player)Randall Leo Jones , nicknamed "Junkman", is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He attended Brea-Olinda High School in Brea, California. He attended Chapman University in Orange, California...
, Class of 1969: Major League Baseball Player, 1976 Cy Young Award Winner - Allie Mauzey, Class of 1998: Broadway star of Wicked and Crybaby
- Evan MooreEvan MooreEvan James Moore is an American football Tight end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2008...
, Class of 2003: NFL football player. Tight End for the Cleveland Browns - Kyle Fogg, Class of 2008: NCAA basketball player. Guard for the Arizona Wildcats
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, Director of such blockbuster films as Terminator 2, Avatar, and Titanic.