William Mason High School (Mason, Ohio)
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William Mason High School, also known as Mason High School, (MHS) is a four-year public high school
located in the Mason City School District in Mason, Ohio
, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio
. It serves more than 3,000 students in grades 9 through 12, supported by classroom teachers, media specialists, technologists, administrators, counselors and an array of staff members, special educators, volunteers and aides.
As of 2011, MHS offers 186 courses and is nationally recognized for "offering one of the most extensive learning experiences available," according to the district's website. Mason Schools are accredited by the North Central Association and a member of the Greater Miami Conference for its athletics. MHS was built in 2002 and recently added a 30 million-dollar new addition to its school, which was completed in 2010. The school has world-class art, music and sports programs. The school also has a student-run bank, Comet Savings & Loan, and a student-run school store, the Comet Zone, both of which are open year-round.
, VCR, synchronized atomic clocks, a telephone with voicemail
for each teacher and cable hookup, as well as multi-media computers (depending on the type of classroom). There are 28 computer labs in the building, and they have between 13 and 25 instructional software ranging from photography, media production, math, accounting, CAD/CAM, biology, etc. supporting hands-on project-based instruction. There are approximately 1,100 computers in the school. The entire building has wireless internet capability, including a lecture hall and a 1,200 seat auditorium with a theatrical sound system and lighting.
Mason City Schools has one of the fastest school networks in Ohio, operating over 1,700 times faster than the standard home Internet connection while supporting over 3,200 classroom computers. There are approximately 3 students per computer in the district. The district also supports individual teacher pages for posting of work assignments and other class information. Parents have secure web access to student grades, transportation information, lunch account balances, and more.
, tennis
, gymnastics
, cheerleading
, cross country
, swimming
, basketball
, wrestling
, track
, baseball
, softball
, Cross Country, and soccer. These sports teams, known as the Comets, participate in the Greater Miami Conference. Previously, Mason was a charter member of the Fort Ancient Valley Conference from 1964 to 2006.
Other activities include award-winning such as Dance Team, Speech and Debate and the Science Olympiad team. The school has a National Honor Society and a Student Government appointed to make a difference in students' communities, along with other leadership clubs such as Mason African-American Students for Change and HOPE Club.
The school has a strong media outlet in its monthly campus student newspaper The Chronicle - a completely student-run publication which has won awards from the National Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association - and MBC Newsmakers, a monthly broadcast show presented to the entire campus. Also present in the school are The Masonian yearbook and Writer's Block, the literary magazine.
MHS promotes school spirit with its highly successful "Black Hole" varsity basketball student section, formed in the 2007-2008 school year. The Black Hole has been featured in local newspapers The Pulse-Journal
http://www.pulsejournal.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/high-schools/2008/01/24/pjm012408blackhole.html, and The Cincinnati Enquirer
http://m.cincinnati.com/detail.jsp?key=48489&rc=sp&full=1
The school's marching band performs competitively in the style of modern drum corps. Its 2007 show, "From Nothing", was Class Champion at the Youngstown Regional Competition, and made it to the semifinal round of the BOA Grand Nationals. The 2008 show, entitled "Meditation", also went to BOA Grand Nationals, and included a violin solo by Peter Chen. In 2009, the show "Between Heaven and Earth" placed twentieth, and in 2010 the show "Underworld" placed fourteenth and was .08 points away from making finals at BOA Grand National Championships. Most recently, Mason's Band reached Grand National Finals with their 2011 show "Winter Solstice" and placed 10th overall out of 92 bands.
The Instrumental Music Department encompasses 5 concert bands, 4 orchestras, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Chamber Strings, Winter Guard, Winter Percussion, Woodwind Class, Brass Class, Percussion Class, Guitar Class, and Music Theory. The program's staff includes band directors Robert Bass, Micah Ewing, and Avious Jackson as well as orchestra directors Stephanie Jones and Brian Frey. The Marching Band is composed of over 200 students, making it the largest student organization Mason High School offers. The Wind Symphony has performed at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, The National Concert Band Festival, Ohio Music Education Association State Conventions, and at various colleges such as Bowling Green State University, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and Northern Kentucky University. The Mason Band Program was awarded the John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Flag of Honor on May 24, 2008, and its Wind Symphony and Symphonic bands played at Carnegie Hall in 2011; the Symphony and Concert orchestras played at Lincoln Center in 2009, and its Symphony and Philharmonic orchestras will play at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center in 2012.
The school's Drama Club performs one show per trimester, culminating in a spring musical each year. Mason High School is a member of the Cappies of Greater Cincinnati, and its winter 2009 play "Noises Off" won the Best Play Cappie. Its outstanding theater facilities include a complete auditorium, scene and costume shop, Green Room and newly-constructed black box theater space, which has sold out during every fall production since its unveiling in the fall of 2009.
While we wear the green and white
While we wear the green and white
We'll remember the days we spent together
While we wear the green and white
Verse 1
When our high school days are over,
Those days so fair and bright.
We'll remember the days we spent together,
While we wore the green and white.
Refrain
While we wear the green and white
While we wear the green and white
We'll remember the days we spent together
While we wear the green and white
Verse 2
In life's stern field of action,
We strive to do it right.
For the sake of the days we spent together,
When we wore the green and white.
Refrain
While we wear the green and white
While we wear the green and white
We'll remember the days we spent together
While we wear the green and white
Fight Song
Stand up and cheer
Let our school be known to all
Mason's bound to win
And our opponents sure to fall!
GO BIG GREEN
Rise all you loyal fans
cheer with us tonight!
Go big green
Go big green
Green and white let's fight!
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in the Mason City School District in Mason, Ohio
Mason, Ohio
Mason is an affluent city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States, 22 miles away from Cincinnati . As of the 2010 census, Mason's population was 30,712. Mason has experienced fast growth, with its historic Main Street remaining at the center of the community...
, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...
. It serves more than 3,000 students in grades 9 through 12, supported by classroom teachers, media specialists, technologists, administrators, counselors and an array of staff members, special educators, volunteers and aides.
As of 2011, MHS offers 186 courses and is nationally recognized for "offering one of the most extensive learning experiences available," according to the district's website. Mason Schools are accredited by the North Central Association and a member of the Greater Miami Conference for its athletics. MHS was built in 2002 and recently added a 30 million-dollar new addition to its school, which was completed in 2010. The school has world-class art, music and sports programs. The school also has a student-run bank, Comet Savings & Loan, and a student-run school store, the Comet Zone, both of which are open year-round.
Technology
Each classroom has a projector, DVD playerDVD player
A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. These devices were invented in 1997 and continue to thrive...
, VCR, synchronized atomic clocks, a telephone with voicemail
Voicemail
Voicemail is a computer based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone...
for each teacher and cable hookup, as well as multi-media computers (depending on the type of classroom). There are 28 computer labs in the building, and they have between 13 and 25 instructional software ranging from photography, media production, math, accounting, CAD/CAM, biology, etc. supporting hands-on project-based instruction. There are approximately 1,100 computers in the school. The entire building has wireless internet capability, including a lecture hall and a 1,200 seat auditorium with a theatrical sound system and lighting.
Mason City Schools has one of the fastest school networks in Ohio, operating over 1,700 times faster than the standard home Internet connection while supporting over 3,200 classroom computers. There are approximately 3 students per computer in the district. The district also supports individual teacher pages for posting of work assignments and other class information. Parents have secure web access to student grades, transportation information, lunch account balances, and more.
Extracurricular activities
More than 85 percent of students at Mason High School are involved in extracurriculars. As a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association, Mason High School Athletic Department sponsors numerous sports, such as a wrestling program, American footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, wrestling
Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
, track
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, Cross Country, and soccer. These sports teams, known as the Comets, participate in the Greater Miami Conference. Previously, Mason was a charter member of the Fort Ancient Valley Conference from 1964 to 2006.
Other activities include award-winning such as Dance Team, Speech and Debate and the Science Olympiad team. The school has a National Honor Society and a Student Government appointed to make a difference in students' communities, along with other leadership clubs such as Mason African-American Students for Change and HOPE Club.
The school has a strong media outlet in its monthly campus student newspaper The Chronicle - a completely student-run publication which has won awards from the National Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association - and MBC Newsmakers, a monthly broadcast show presented to the entire campus. Also present in the school are The Masonian yearbook and Writer's Block, the literary magazine.
MHS promotes school spirit with its highly successful "Black Hole" varsity basketball student section, formed in the 2007-2008 school year. The Black Hole has been featured in local newspapers The Pulse-Journal
The Pulse-Journal
The Pulse-Journal is a weekly broadsheet newspaper founded in Mason, Ohio and owned by Cox Enterprises. The paper covers news, politics, local events, entertainment, and sports in western Warren and eastern Butler counties in Ohio, including Liberty Township, Maineville, Monroe, Morrow, South...
http://www.pulsejournal.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/high-schools/2008/01/24/pjm012408blackhole.html, and The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer, a daily morning newspaper, is the highest-circulation print publication in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. The Cincinnati Enquirer, a daily morning newspaper, is the highest-circulation print publication in Greater Cincinnati (Ohio) and Northern Kentucky. The...
http://m.cincinnati.com/detail.jsp?key=48489&rc=sp&full=1
The school's marching band performs competitively in the style of modern drum corps. Its 2007 show, "From Nothing", was Class Champion at the Youngstown Regional Competition, and made it to the semifinal round of the BOA Grand Nationals. The 2008 show, entitled "Meditation", also went to BOA Grand Nationals, and included a violin solo by Peter Chen. In 2009, the show "Between Heaven and Earth" placed twentieth, and in 2010 the show "Underworld" placed fourteenth and was .08 points away from making finals at BOA Grand National Championships. Most recently, Mason's Band reached Grand National Finals with their 2011 show "Winter Solstice" and placed 10th overall out of 92 bands.
The Instrumental Music Department encompasses 5 concert bands, 4 orchestras, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Chamber Strings, Winter Guard, Winter Percussion, Woodwind Class, Brass Class, Percussion Class, Guitar Class, and Music Theory. The program's staff includes band directors Robert Bass, Micah Ewing, and Avious Jackson as well as orchestra directors Stephanie Jones and Brian Frey. The Marching Band is composed of over 200 students, making it the largest student organization Mason High School offers. The Wind Symphony has performed at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, The National Concert Band Festival, Ohio Music Education Association State Conventions, and at various colleges such as Bowling Green State University, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and Northern Kentucky University. The Mason Band Program was awarded the John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Flag of Honor on May 24, 2008, and its Wind Symphony and Symphonic bands played at Carnegie Hall in 2011; the Symphony and Concert orchestras played at Lincoln Center in 2009, and its Symphony and Philharmonic orchestras will play at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center in 2012.
The school's Drama Club performs one show per trimester, culminating in a spring musical each year. Mason High School is a member of the Cappies of Greater Cincinnati, and its winter 2009 play "Noises Off" won the Best Play Cappie. Its outstanding theater facilities include a complete auditorium, scene and costume shop, Green Room and newly-constructed black box theater space, which has sold out during every fall production since its unveiling in the fall of 2009.
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- Boys Cross Country - 2008
- Girls GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- 2008, 2009, 2010 - Girls BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- 2000 - Girls Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
–2004
Notable alumni and staff
- Brant DaughertyBrant DaughertyBrant Daugherty , is an American actor.He is best known for his role as Noel Kahn on the series Pretty Little Liars. He has also acted for some minor roles in television series and has written a book....
, Actor. - Dan PatrickDan PatrickDaniel Patrick Pugh , professionally known as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and actor from Mason, Ohio...
, ESPN sportscaster and Sports Illustrated senior writer. - Dustin CenterDustin CenterDustin Center is an Australian-American professional mixed martial artist and 4x All American wrestler from Cincinnati, Ohio.-Background:Center is well rounded fighter with a variegated MMA background including extensive time spent in Wrestling, BJJ, and Muay Thai – where he trained as a...
, Professional MMA Fighter and 4x All American Wrestler. - Rachel Slezak Educator and noted vegan chef.
- Stacy Schuler, the former physical education and health teacher at the high school who was convicted of having initiated many sexual encounters she had with five separate 17-year-old boys who were her students, as well as supplying some of them with alcohol, which she had also consumed (the age of consent in Ohio is 16, but it is still illegal for a high school teacher to have sex with any student, regardless of age; she could have faced decades in prison, but was sentenced in October 2011 to a total of four years, having the option to ask a judge to parole her after six months in prison).
Alma Mater & Fight Song
Alma MaterAlma mater
Alma mater , pronounced ), was used in ancient Rome as a title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele, and in Christianity for the Virgin Mary.-General term:...
While we wear the green and white
While we wear the green and white
We'll remember the days we spent together
While we wear the green and white
Verse 1
When our high school days are over,
Those days so fair and bright.
We'll remember the days we spent together,
While we wore the green and white.
Refrain
While we wear the green and white
While we wear the green and white
We'll remember the days we spent together
While we wear the green and white
Verse 2
In life's stern field of action,
We strive to do it right.
For the sake of the days we spent together,
When we wore the green and white.
Refrain
While we wear the green and white
While we wear the green and white
We'll remember the days we spent together
While we wear the green and white
Fight Song
Fight song
A fight song is primarily an American and Canadian sports term, referring to a song associated with a team. In both professional and amateur sports, fight songs are a popular way for fans to cheer for their team...
Stand up and cheer
Let our school be known to all
Mason's bound to win
And our opponents sure to fall!
GO BIG GREEN
Rise all you loyal fans
cheer with us tonight!
Go big green
Go big green
Green and white let's fight!