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Alvirne High School is located in the town of Hudson, New Hampshire with an enrollment of approximately 1,500 students from grades 9-12. Alvirne gets its name from a prominent Hudson family, the Alfred and Virginia Hill family, who left a large piece of property to the town in the early 20th century to provide land for the building of a high school. A contraction of their names (Alfred and Virginia) provides the name for the school.
History
The school almost never got built. A tract in the Hill's will that provided for the school required that the school open by a certain date. Behind schedule, the town held 4-H classes on horticulture in the yet-uncompleted building to meet the literal deadline.
On September 8th, 1974 a large fire gutted the building, requiring most of it to be rebuilt. The agricultural school dates from the 1950's, and the modern vocational building opened in 1993.
Academic programs
Alvirne teaches a standard college preperatory course of study, but also features an extensive vocational education program.
Alvirne is also home to one of fewer than 800 units worldwide of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
Wilbur H. Palmer Vocational-Technical Center
The campus is home to the Wilbur H. Palmer Vocational-Technical Center, a comprehensive vocational education center that features programs of study in finance, accounting, agriculture mechanics/diesel technology, banking, biotechnology, building trades, business, culinary arts, early childhood education, floriculture, health occupations, landscaping, marketing, natural resource management/forestry, production agriculture, and veterinary technology.
The program focuses on application based education, and centers around student-managed businesses. The center features several fully operational businesses that are open to the public. These include a bank, convenience store, and restaurant, day care, and the campus' most noticible feature, a fully operational dairy farm. The dairy farm has cows, chickens, goats, and a barn on campus.
Athletics and other competitions
The mascot is the Bronco. Alvirne fields athletic teams in baseball, football, cheerleading, cross country, golf, soccer, volley ball, wrestling, tennis, softball, basketball, and track. Alvirne High went many decades without a football team, despite being one of the largest high schools in the state. It had long been rumored that the Hills' only son had died during a football game and the school did not conduct a football program out of respect. Alvirne focused on its soccer program, dominating the state by winning many High School championships. After the 1974 fire, some residents questioned if the school should continue its "no football" tradition since the town would be rebuilding the school. It was assumed that such a stipulation had been put as a condition of the high school's charter. When it was learned that no such condition had ever been recorded, local supporters encouraged the formation of a football team. In fall of 1994, Alvirne High School fielded its first JV football team, with varsity play beginning in 1996. Recently, an ice hockey program was also added.
Alvirne High School should also be known for its achievements in academic competitions. It has won the Granite State Challenge championship three times giving the high school the status of being one of few multiple champions in this academic competition to have won every championship game appearance. They also compete in the FIRST engineering competition.
Trivia
Alvirne was listed in the 1980 edition of the Guiness Book of World Records Alvirne High School math students built a slide rule measuring 320 feet 11.1 inches in length. It was completed in March, 1979. The record was broken later that year by students at the University of Illinois.
Notable Alumni
- Jennifer Lavoie - August 1993 Playboy Playmate and successful model/star of various Playboy videos.
References
- Alvirne High School departments, Retreived November 2, 2006
- Wilbur H. Palmer Vocational-Technical Center, Retrieved November 2, 2006
- Past GSC SuperChallenge Champions Retrieved November 2, 2006
- Alvirne FIRST team profile Retrieved November 2, 2006
- Guiness Book of World Records, 1980, Sterling Publishing Co, New York, NY USA.