Greater Johnstown High School

Greater Johnstown High School

Greater Johnstown High School is a high school located in between the neighborhoods of Moxham, 8th Ward and Hornerstown in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the senior high school for the Greater Johnstown School District. The current Superintendent is Barbara Parkins, herself a graduate of the school district. The first recorded alumni of the school are listed as graduating in 1882. Over 50,000 students have graduated from this high school. The current Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dr. Gerald Zahorchak, is himself a 1975 graduate of Johnstown High. Other notable graduates include: Saturday Night Live actor, Tim Kazurinsky, actress Carroll Baker, former Pittsburgh Steeler Pro-Bowler Carlton Haselrig and Spiderman comics co-creator, Steve Ditko. In the 1930's dancing legend, Gene Kelly, was the choreographer for the Johnstown High School Musicals.

Information

It is the largest public school in the Johnstown Area Public School System with 774 students currently enrolled in grades 9 through 12.The school is broken up into 5 academies that all have state of the art equipment. The five academies are Freshman Success Academy, Arts and Communications Academy, Health and Human Services Academy, Business Academy, and Engineering Manufacturing Technology Academy.

Athletics

Johnstown participates in high school athletics as a member of the Laurel Highlands Athletics Conference (LHAC) and the school has won many LHAC titles. Johnstown's most recent moment of glory was appearing in the 2005 PIAA State Class AAA Boy Basketball title game before falling to Steelton-Highspire High School.

Traditions

Alma Mater (To Dear Old Johnstown High)

In the shadow of the mountain/With the stream meandering by/rises glorious Johnstown High School/O'er surroundings towering high/

CHORUS: Raise your voices, waft the echoes/Thru the valleys' far away/Hoist the black and pale blue banner/With our praises let it sway/

From thy chapel in the morning/Where thy Maker's help is sought/To the end of every session/Truth and steadfastness are taught/

CHORUS

In athletics as in studies/Mingles honor of thy name/Which spurs our men to victory/And makes them known to fame/

CHORUS

So to thee our inspiration/Lift we this, our song of praise /While to thy most faithful guidance/We Will trust our future days/

CHORUS

Fight song

Trojan Power/ Firm and strong/Out in Front/Where we belong/Push for victory/Bring success/We're the finest,/We're the best/So fight on Trojans*/Win this game/Bring us forture/Bring us fame /Our men of Troy /Will meet the test/Johnstown High School /is the Best/

*This line is not consistent. The Website has it Published as "So fight on Johnstown," but at the football games where it is played by the marching band when the football team scores a touchdown, you hear the crowd sing the line printed on this website.

The cadence is also very famous among The locals and features the entire percussion section playing a very danceable beat.


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