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Revision as of 23:57, 8 September 2006 by 68.232.198.135 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Alvirne is the name of a high school 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.
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.
A large fire in the 1970's 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.
Alvirne is unusual in having cows, chickens, goats, and a barn on campus as part of an agriculture education program in the Wilbur H. Palmer Vocational School. The program also has a student-run restaurant, bank, school store, daycare, dairy farm, and forestry program and building trades.
Alvirne is also home to one of fewer than 800 units worldwide of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
The mascot is the Bronco. Alvirne fields athletic teams in many traditional sports such as baseball, softball, basketball, and track. The Hills' only son had died during a football game; out of respect, Alvirne High went many decades without a football team, despite being one of the largest high schools in the state. It was assumed that such a stipulation had been put as a condition of the high ss charter. When it was learned that no such condition had ever been recorded, financial pressures 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 is currently home to its highest scoring student ever, Kyle Garnick.
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