Haverford Senior High School
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Haverford Township, Pennsylvania
Haverford Township is a home rule township in Delaware County, near Philadelphia, in southeastern Pennsylvania, United States. It maintains its legal name as the Township of Haverford, presumably for historic reasons...
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, operated by the School District of Haverford Township
School District of Haverford Township
The School District of Haverford Township is a school district in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States.The district serves all parts of the township, including Havertown.-Primary schools:* Chatham Park Elementary School...
. It is at 200 Mill Road in Havertown
Havertown, Pennsylvania
Havertown is a residential suburban unincorporated community in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 9 miles west of the center of Philadelphia. Havertown's ZIP Code is 19083. Havertown is notable for being the birthplace of Swell Bubble Gum, which closed...
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The school serves the entirety of Haverford Township, including all of the unincorporated community of "Havertown" (a place name created by the US Postal Service to designate ZIP Code 19083, which is wholly within Haverford Township), and the Haverford Township portions of the unincorporated communities of Haverford
Haverford, Pennsylvania
Haverford is an unincorporated community located partially in Haverford Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA, but primarily in Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, about west of Philadelphia. It is on the Main Line, which is known historically for its wealth. As of August 2009,...
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Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr from Welsh for "big hill") is a census-designated place in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia along Lancaster Avenue and the border with Delaware County...
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, Drexel Hill
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
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Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania is a suburban community located outside of Philadelphia in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania and Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Wynnewood was named in 1691 for Dr. Thomas Wynne, William Penn's physician and the first Speaker of the Pennsylvania General...
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All five School District of Haverford Township elementary schools feed into the middle school, which feeds into HHS.
Haverford High operates WHHS
WHHS
WHHS is the student-run high school radio station of Haverford Senior High School, in Havertown, Pennsylvania . WHHS is the oldest high school radio station in the country. The station itself is located within the High School, and the transmitter is located nearby, covering a 5 to 10 mile radius...
, the first FM broadcast high school radio
High school radio
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History
The current building opened in September 1956. The facility was built in the style of many high schools of that era: long hallways of classrooms, and architecturally mixing moderne and International styles. The building included a small planetarium on the third floor, as well as a greenhouse for science classes. The building also had a full line of shop spaces for wood, motor, and metal shop courses. An auditorium of nearly 900 seats was included, accompanying a wing of music and art classrooms, and locker rooms adjacent to the large gymnasium. The school did not include a swimming pool (nor would future renovations include this facility).The school building was expanded and modernized from 1996-1999. Renovations were long and had many issues, one being that one side of the school is higher than the other. The most significant physical addition to the school during these years was the demolition of a small building at the rear center of the (used as counselling suite and lounge area) and the construction of a three floor addition to house new and spacious science classrooms/laboraties, as well as large seminar classrooms. With this change, rear classrooms in the center of the original building lost exterior windows, and now looked out over open common space adjacent to two new cafeterias, separated by a large new kitchen. Further this new addition included new administrative offices. This meant that these offices left their original locations along the front of the center wing of the original building. This space became a new principal' office, infirmary, sewing classroom, and a new staircase was added, as well. It was also with the addition of this structure that the wood, metal, and motor shops were eliminated from the building, along with those courses. Wood shop continued to be offered to high school students at the Haverford Middle School wood shop.
Also during the 1996-1999 renovations, the original cafeteria was renovated into a new art classroom wing, as well as a large college-style seminar classroom. With the moving of the art rooms, the former art space became the current choir classroom. The former choir classroom became a new weight room for the use of the school's athletes. The original library space was turned into classroom space for child development and cooking classes. With this change also came the elimination of a faculty lunchroom from that part of the building.
Additionally, renovations involved removing the entire interior of areas being renovated, such that today's classrooms are not merely redone versions of the original rooms, but rather, entirely new rooms. One long-debated result of this renovation was that in removing the interior and building it anew, walls of concrete brick and glazed tiling were removed, and replaced uniformly with drywall. As a result, the walls are easily damaged and frequently require patching or painting. One other change was that many windows were covered or eliminated in the renovation. For example, the exterior of the building today reveals that along the upper section of the gymnasium, stuccoed panels cover what had been large windows. And most classrooms lost half their window area as glass bricks were covered over, leaving only the lower, operable parts of the windows exposed. The rear wall of the interior of the auditorium also once was lined with windows covered with drapes; renovations replaced the windows with walls. The only area of the school that appears nearly as it did when the building first opened is the auditorium and gymnasium lobby, which still combine terazzo flooring, chrome, blond varnished wood, and glazed bricks, giving this area the character the entire building once had.
A very positive result of the renovation was a large, bright, and attractive library that includes a large mezzanine with desktop computers for student usage. The school was also fully air-conditioned in the renovation.
The high school, founded in 1928, was co-located until 1956 with the nearby Haverford Middle School, formerly the Haverford Junior High School.
Sports
The Haverford High football team has one of the longest running rivalries with Upper Darby High. Upper Darby has a 41-39-6 lead in the series.The Haverford High basketball team won its only PIAA State Championship in 1958. Haverford High was PIAA runners-up in 1970.
In 1969, the Haverford High School ice hockey team was one of the seven original members of the Inter-County Scholastic Hockey League, the first high schools to participate in Pennsylvania high school hockey
Pennsylvania high school hockey
Ice hockey is a popular and growing sport in the state of Pennsylvania. Teams from 150 high schools competed as varsity ice hockey teams in Western and Eastern Pennsylvania . Unlike every other high school sport in Pennsylvania, hockey is not run under Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic...
. The team's original coach, Ed Galli, was also the president of the league. The team won the Flyer's cup in the 2005-2006 season, 2006- 2007 season, and the 2007-2008 season at the AA level. The victory in the Flyers Cup advanced the team to the Pennsylvania State High School Ice Hockey Championship, where they were defeated all three times.
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