Benjamin Bosse High School

Benjamin Bosse High School, referred to as Evansville Bosse High School by the IHSAA, is a public high school of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Bosse is the smallest of the EVSC's five high schools, and third smallest high school by enrollment of Vanderburgh County's nine high schools. The school is a contributing property to the Lincolnshire Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

Benjamin Bosse High School
Address
1300 Washington Avenue Evansville , Indiana 47714 United States
Coordinates	37°57′48″N 87°32′24″W
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1924
School district	Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation
Principal	Aaron Huff
Teaching staff	96.35[1] (on a FTE basis)
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	735 (2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	7.63[1]
Color(s)
Athletics conference	Southern Indiana Athletic Conference
Nickname	Bulldogs
Website	Evansville Bosse High School

History

The school was initially financed by Benjamin Bosse, who was the mayor of Evansville from 1914 to 1922. Construction began on the school in 1922 and opened for its first pupils in 1924, serving what was then the east side of Evansville.

Bosse's boys basketball team won the state championship in 1944 the first area team to do so. The school won again in 1945 and 1962. Bosse's band marched in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida on New Year's Eve in 1970-1971 and also played in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.

Sports

Also see: Sports in Evansville

State Titles

• Boys Basketball (1943–44), (1944–45), (1961–62)

Notable alumni

• Marty Amsler, former National Football League defensive end[2]
• Pete Fox, Major League Baseball player from 1933 to 1945.[3]
• Roy Halston Frowick, fashion designer[4]
• Arad McCutchan, Hall of Fame Basketball Coach, Evansville College[5]
• Michael Michele, actress, best known for ER[6]
• Talitha Washington, mathematician and STEM education activist at Howard University[7]
• Roger H. Zion, U.S. congressman for Indiana (1967–1975)[8]

See also

• List of high schools in Indiana

References

1. "Benjamin Bosse High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
2. "Marty, Amsler". Indiana football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on September 28, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
3. "Pete Fox Statistics". baseball-reference.com.
4. "Famous fashion designers from Indiana". Hoosier History Live. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-31. Retrieved 2014-04-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. Lipton, Michael A. (April 10, 2000). "All the Right Moves". People. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
7. "Talitha Washington at Howard University until Fall 2012". AceNotes Today. University of Evansville. May 17, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
8. "Roger Zion Obituary, Evansville, IN". Evansville Courier & Press. September 27, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.

External links

• Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation
• Bosse High School web page
• Digitized yearbooks, Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library