Shorewood High School (Wisconsin)
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Shorewood High School is a comprehensive public high school located in the village of Shorewood
, Wisconsin
, as part of the Shorewood School District.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 667 students and 43.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE
basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.5. The school is considered among the best in the state in overall academics. Achievement, graduation and college placement rates are in the top 10 percent statewide.
is the home to the Shorewood High School football team. The surface was installed with field turf, making it the second high school in Wisconsin to have it.
in New York City
.
The Shorewood Drama Department produces a minimum of three shows annually. It was the first high school in its area to perform the musical "A Chorus Line
" in 1986, and the first in the nation to perform "Rent
" (the high school edition) in 2006. In 2006, they also performed "Urinetown the Musical
". The high school has been mentioned in The New York Times
, along with three other schools, for its outstanding theater and its ability to "spend more money on a drama production than on their director's annual salary."
In addition to covering stories at SHS, Ripples reports on stories in other Shorewood schools, and the greater community. With a staff of over 30 students doing all the work to bring ten or more issues per year to press, Shorewood Ripples is entirely student run. Most issues have 12 to 20 pages. With a circulation of between 800 and 1000, the publication reaches students and residents throughout the village of Shorewood.
Ripples subscribes to the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists, including the obligation to perform with intelligence, objectivity, accuracy and fairness.
William H. Rehnquist, future Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, aka "Bugs," served as Features Editor during the 1941-42 school year. At the time, the National Scholastic Press Association ranked Ripples as the best high school newspaper in the United States. In 1955-56, Les Aspin
, future Secretary of Defense, served as Editor-in-Chief. Salon.com editor Joan Walsh
helmed Ripples in 1976-77.
1925-26: Boys' tennis champion +
1926-27: Boys' tennis champion
1928-29: Boys' tennis championref name="State Boys Tennis Champions"/>
1931-32: Boys' swimming & diving runner-up
1932-33: Boys' swimming & diving
1933-34: Boys' swimming & diving
1934-35: Boys' swimming & diving champion
1935-36: Boys' swimming & diving
1936-37: Boys' swimming & diving champion
1936-37: Boys' basketball Class B quarterfinal
1937-38: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1937-38: Boys' swimming & diving
1938-39: Boys' swimming & diving champion
1938-39: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1939-40: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1939-40: Boys' swimming & diving
1940-41: Boys' swimming & diving
1940-41: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1941-42: Boys' basketball champion
1941-42: Boys' swimming & diving
1942-43: Boys' swimming & diving
1948-49: Boys' swimming & diving
1954-55: Boys' basketball 1st round
1960-61: Boys' track & field Class B
1965-66: Boys' track & field Class B runner-up
1974-75: Girls' volleyball Class B
1975-76: Girls’ volleyball Class B
1980-81: Boys’ basketball Class B semi-finalist
1981-82: Girls’ tennis runner-up
1990-91: Girls’ volleyball Division 2 semi-finalist
1994-95: Girls’ Gymnastics Division 1*
1995-96: Girls’ Gymnastics Division 1*
1994-95: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1995-96: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1996-97: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1996-97: Girls’ Gymnastics Division 1 runner-up*
1997-98: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1997-98: Boys’ soccer Division 2 champion
2000-01: Boys’ cross country Division 2 champion
2000-01: Boys’ tennis Division 2 runner-up
2000-01: Boys’ volleyball quarterfinal
2001-02: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2 champion
2001-02: Boys’ volleyball Semi-Final
2002-03: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
2003-04: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
2003-04: Boys’ cross country Division 2
2004-05: Boys’ cross country Division 2
2004-05: Boys’ soccer Division 2 runner-up
2005-06: Boys’ cross country Division 2 champion
2005-06: Boys’ volleyball semi-final
2006-07: Boys’ cross country Division 2 champion
2006-07: Boys’ tennis Division 2 Doubles
2007-08: Boys’ cross country Division 2
2009-10: Boys’ cross country Division 2 State Champions
2010-11: Boys’ cross country Division 2 State Champions
+ - Tie With Milwaukee Washington (See Reference)
The girls' program made three appearances at the WIAA state meet with an individual victory and a state course record in 2006. The girls' team has attended the WIAA state meet in seven of the last seven years with the highest finish a 4th place in 2009.
Shorewood, Wisconsin
Shorewood is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 13,763 at the 2000 census. Howell Raines of The New York Times said in 1979 that "[t]his maplestudded town on Lake Michigan dotes on its reputation as Milwaukee's most liberal suburb."-Geography:Shorewood is...
, Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
, as part of the Shorewood School District.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 667 students and 43.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.5. The school is considered among the best in the state in overall academics. Achievement, graduation and college placement rates are in the top 10 percent statewide.
Shorewood Stadium
Shorewood Stadium in ShorewoodShorewood, Wisconsin
Shorewood is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 13,763 at the 2000 census. Howell Raines of The New York Times said in 1979 that "[t]his maplestudded town on Lake Michigan dotes on its reputation as Milwaukee's most liberal suburb."-Geography:Shorewood is...
is the home to the Shorewood High School football team. The surface was installed with field turf, making it the second high school in Wisconsin to have it.
Performing arts
Shorewood High School's band, orchestra,choir, and drama departments are located in the school's Performing Arts Building, whose 1,200-seat auditorium was modeled after Radio City Music HallRadio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
The Shorewood Drama Department produces a minimum of three shows annually. It was the first high school in its area to perform the musical "A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch....
" in 1986, and the first in the nation to perform "Rent
Rent (musical)
Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...
" (the high school edition) in 2006. In 2006, they also performed "Urinetown the Musical
Urinetown
Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics...
". The high school has been mentioned in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, along with three other schools, for its outstanding theater and its ability to "spend more money on a drama production than on their director's annual salary."
Student newspaper
Founded in 1922, Shorewood Ripples is the student newspaper. The entire 1921-1922 SHS student body (seven students) contributed to the first edition, which was a yearbook with a literary bent.In addition to covering stories at SHS, Ripples reports on stories in other Shorewood schools, and the greater community. With a staff of over 30 students doing all the work to bring ten or more issues per year to press, Shorewood Ripples is entirely student run. Most issues have 12 to 20 pages. With a circulation of between 800 and 1000, the publication reaches students and residents throughout the village of Shorewood.
Ripples subscribes to the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists, including the obligation to perform with intelligence, objectivity, accuracy and fairness.
William H. Rehnquist, future Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, aka "Bugs," served as Features Editor during the 1941-42 school year. At the time, the National Scholastic Press Association ranked Ripples as the best high school newspaper in the United States. In 1955-56, Les Aspin
Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. was a United States Representative from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994.-Early life:...
, future Secretary of Defense, served as Editor-in-Chief. Salon.com editor Joan Walsh
Joan Walsh
Joan Maureen Walsh is a liberal editor, writer, and blogger. Since February 2005 she has been the editor-in-chief of Salon.com, a San Francisco-based American liberal politics and culture Web site. She joined Salon as its first full-time news editor in 1998, and became managing editor in 2004...
helmed Ripples in 1976-77.
State tournament history
1924-25: Boys' tennis champion1925-26: Boys' tennis champion +
1926-27: Boys' tennis champion
1928-29: Boys' tennis championref name="State Boys Tennis Champions"/>
1931-32: Boys' swimming & diving runner-up
1932-33: Boys' swimming & diving
1933-34: Boys' swimming & diving
1934-35: Boys' swimming & diving champion
1935-36: Boys' swimming & diving
1936-37: Boys' swimming & diving champion
1936-37: Boys' basketball Class B quarterfinal
1937-38: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1937-38: Boys' swimming & diving
1938-39: Boys' swimming & diving champion
1938-39: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1939-40: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1939-40: Boys' swimming & diving
1940-41: Boys' swimming & diving
1940-41: Boys' basketball quarterfinal
1941-42: Boys' basketball champion
1941-42: Boys' swimming & diving
1942-43: Boys' swimming & diving
1948-49: Boys' swimming & diving
1954-55: Boys' basketball 1st round
1960-61: Boys' track & field Class B
1965-66: Boys' track & field Class B runner-up
1974-75: Girls' volleyball Class B
1975-76: Girls’ volleyball Class B
1980-81: Boys’ basketball Class B semi-finalist
1981-82: Girls’ tennis runner-up
1990-91: Girls’ volleyball Division 2 semi-finalist
1994-95: Girls’ Gymnastics Division 1*
1995-96: Girls’ Gymnastics Division 1*
1994-95: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1995-96: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1996-97: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1996-97: Girls’ Gymnastics Division 1 runner-up*
1997-98: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
1997-98: Boys’ soccer Division 2 champion
2000-01: Boys’ cross country Division 2 champion
2000-01: Boys’ tennis Division 2 runner-up
2000-01: Boys’ volleyball quarterfinal
2001-02: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2 champion
2001-02: Boys’ volleyball Semi-Final
2002-03: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
2003-04: Girls’ swimming & diving Division 2
2003-04: Boys’ cross country Division 2
2004-05: Boys’ cross country Division 2
2004-05: Boys’ soccer Division 2 runner-up
2005-06: Boys’ cross country Division 2 champion
2005-06: Boys’ volleyball semi-final
2006-07: Boys’ cross country Division 2 champion
2006-07: Boys’ tennis Division 2 Doubles
2007-08: Boys’ cross country Division 2
2009-10: Boys’ cross country Division 2 State Champions
2010-11: Boys’ cross country Division 2 State Champions
- - Co-Op team with Whitefish Bay High School
+ - Tie With Milwaukee Washington (See Reference)
Cross country
Shorewood's boys' cross country team won four straight WIAA Division 2 State Championships (2003–06), making them the first Division 2 school ever to do so. It also won the state meet in 2000, 2009 and 2010. It was state runner-up in 2007.The girls' program made three appearances at the WIAA state meet with an individual victory and a state course record in 2006. The girls' team has attended the WIAA state meet in seven of the last seven years with the highest finish a 4th place in 2009.
Notable alumni
- Jim AbrahamsJim AbrahamsJim Abrahams is an American movie director and writer.Abrahams was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin, to a Jewish family, and attended Shorewood High School...
, filmmaker - Les AspinLes AspinLeslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. was a United States Representative from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994.-Early life:...
, Congressman and United States Secretary of DefenseUnited States Secretary of DefenseThe Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries... - Kate BaldwinKate Baldwin-Biography:Born in Evanston, Illinois, Baldwin graduated from the theatre program at Northwestern University in 1997.-Career:Kate Baldwin made her Broadway debut in The Full Monty in 2000, followed by appearances in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Wonderful Town...
, Broadway actress, nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Finian's Rainbow - Dickey ChapelleDickey ChapelleDickey Chapelle, born Georgette Louise Meyer , was an American photojournalist known for her work as a war correspondent from World War II through the Vietnam War.-Early life:...
(born Georgette Louise Meyer), photojournalist. - John FiedlerJohn FiedlerJohn Donald Fiedler was an American voice actor and character actor in stage, film, television and radio. He was slight, balding, and bespectacled, with a distinctive, high-pitched voice and a career lasting more than 55 years.He is best remembered for four roles: as the nervous Juror #2 in 12...
, actor, voice of PigletPiglet (Winnie the Pooh)Piglet is a fictional character from A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Piglet is Winnie-the-Pooh's closest friend amongst all the toys/animals featured in the stories... - Paul C. GartzkePaul C. GartzkePaul Coulter Gartzke was a Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.Gartzke was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and graduated from Shorewood High School in Shorewood, Wisconsin before attending Milwaukee State Teachers College, the University of Iowa, Harvard Law School and the University...
, Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals - Jerry HarrisonJerry HarrisonJerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...
(Jeremiah Griffin Harrison), member of Talking HeadsTalking HeadsTalking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison... - Walter HellerWalter HellerWalter Wolfgang Heller was a leading American economist of the 1960s, and an influential advisor to President John F. Kennedy as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, 1961-64....
, economist and Chairman of the Council of Economic AdvisersCouncil of Economic AdvisersThe Council of Economic Advisers is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President of the United States on economic policy...
during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations - John KoisKaleidoscope (newspaper)Kaleidoscope was an underground newspaper, founded by John Kois, radio disk jockey Bob Reitman, and John Sahli , which was published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Oct. 6, 1967 to Nov. 11, 1971, printing 105 biweekly issues in all...
, writer, editor - Bonnie LadwigBonnie LadwigBonnie Ladwig is a Wisconsin politician and legislator.Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ladwig graduated from Shorewood High School. Ladwig served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 until 2005. In 2004, Ladwig was convicted of ethics violations.-Notes:...
, Wisconsin politician - Lloyd PettitLloyd PettitLloyd Pettit was a sportscaster in Chicago and Milwaukee as well as the owner of the Milwaukee Admirals.-Early life:Pettit was born in Chicago and moved as a small child to the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Shorewood High School...
, Emmy-award-winning sports broadcaster. - Charlotte RaeCharlotte RaeCharlotte Rae is a prolific American character actress of stage, comedienne, singer and dancer, who in her six decades of television is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life...
, actress (Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of LifeThe Facts of Life (TV series)The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...
) - William RehnquistWilliam RehnquistWilliam Hubbs Rehnquist was an American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court - John RinkaJohn RinkaJohn Rinka is an American former college basketball player best known for his high–scoring offensive ability and accurate jump shot while at Kenyon College from 1966 to 1970. A shooting guard, Rinka is in the National Collegiate Athletic Association top ten in all–time scoring despite playing...
, college basketball player at Kenyon CollegeKenyon CollegeKenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...
who is among the NCAA top ten all–time scorers (3,251 points) - Ben L. SalomonBen L. SalomonBenjamin Lewis Salomon was a United States Army dentist during World War II, assigned as a front-line surgeon since there were no equivalents of today's advanced paramedics...
, Medal of Honor winner - John SearleJohn SearleJohn Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:...
, analytic philosopher - Robert ShawRobert Shaw-Arts and humanities:* Bob Shaw , Irish science fiction writer* Bob Shaw , co-writer for Seinfeld, A Bugs Life and others* Robert J...
, screenwriter - John Sherba, violinist, Kronos Quartet
- Leif ShirasLeif ShirasGeorge Livingston "Leif" Shiras is a former professional tennis player from the United States and now a tennis journalist....
, professional tennis player - Joan WalshJoan WalshJoan Maureen Walsh is a liberal editor, writer, and blogger. Since February 2005 she has been the editor-in-chief of Salon.com, a San Francisco-based American liberal politics and culture Web site. She joined Salon as its first full-time news editor in 1998, and became managing editor in 2004...
, editor-in-chief, Salon.com - David Zucker, movie director.
- Jerry ZuckerJerry Zucker (film director)Jerry Zucker is an American movie director known for his role in directing comedy spoof films, and the hit film Ghost....
, movie director