Senn High School

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Type Public Secondary School district Chicago Public Schools Grades 9–12 District Chicago Public Schools Number of students 1,361 (2015–2016)		Established 1913 Principal Mary Patricia Beck Phone +1 773-534-2365 Mascot Bulldogs

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Senn High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Senn is operated by the Chicago Public Schools system and was inaugurated in 1913. The school is named in honor of surgeon, instructor, and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Nicholas Senn. Senn has advanced placement classes, an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, a fine arts program (theater, visual arts, dance, and music), and a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. It also houses the public but administratively separate, Hyman Rickover Naval Academy.

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Curriculum

Senn was granted the International Baccalaureate program in 1999. Senn also has the TESOL/Multilingual Program, an English as a Second Language program for limited English proficiency students, the Striving for Excellence Program (for a select group of freshmen identified as struggling or at-risk), and the Education-To-Careers Program (for 10th, 11th and 12th graders that includes job shadowing, apprenticeships, and partnerships with local businesses). In 2011, it was announced that Senn would be adding a fine and performing arts magnet program.

Service learning/extra-curricular activities

The school encourages its students to participate in community service. Information regarding service learning is provided by the Service Learning Coach. Student organizations at Senn range from the Global Heritage Club to the Red Cross Club.

Rickover Naval Academy

With support from Mayor Richard M. Daley, Senator Dick Durbin, Alderman Mary Ann Smith, and Chicago Public Schools, a wing of the school was converted into the Rickover Naval Academy, named for Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Dedicated on November 2005, this is the fourth military school in the Chicago Public Schools system. The academy is a college preparatory school.

Notable alumni

Cliff Aberson – professional football player with NFL Green Bay Packers (1946) and a Major League Baseball outfielder (1947–49) with the Chicago Cubs

Buddy Bregman – musical arranger, record producer and composer

Donald Briggs - actor

Carlos Eire – historian, writer, professor at Yale University, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana

Joseph Epstein – writer, essayist, and editor

Jimmy Evert – tennis coach whose students included Jennifer Capriati and his daughter, Chris Evert

William Friedkin – Academy Award–winning film director

Shecky Greene – comedian

Alan Hargesheimer – professional baseball player for San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and Kansas City Royals

Barbara Harris – actress on stage, television, and screen

Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block) – political cartoonist, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree

Gene Honda – media spokesman and public address announcer for Chicago White Sox and Chicago Blackhawks

John Jakes – bestselling author

Harvey Korman – Emmy Award-winning comedic actor

Lou Levy – jazz bebop artist

Allan Katz – comedy writer, television producer (M*A*S*H)

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. – novelist and editor

Clayton Moore – actor best known for his portrayal of The Lone Ranger

Lois Nettleton – actress in film and on television for nearly six decades

Mike North – host of television and radio sports shows

Anita O'Day – jazz singer

Irna Phillips – creator of radio and TV soap operas

Fritz Pollard, Jr. – bronze medalist in the 110 meter hurdles at the 1936 Olympics

Harold Ramis – comedy writer, film director, and actor

Annette Rogers – gold medalist in 4 x 100 metres relay at 1932 Olympics and 1936 Olympics

William Russo (musician) – jazz arranger and composer

Sidney Sheldon – Academy Award and Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

Scott Simon – Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer and radio personality

Lee Stern – trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, minority owner of Chicago White Sox and president of Chicago's former NASL soccer team, the Sting

Stanley Tigerman – architect and designer

Burr Tillstrom – Emmy and Peabody Award-winning puppeteer

References

Senn High School Wikipedia

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