GRANBY HIGH SCHOOL

'Granby High School' is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Norfolk, Virginia. The high school is part of the public Norfolk City Public Schools system. It is the only high school in the school division that offers an International Baccalaureate program.

Contents

History

Famous Alumni

Trivia

External links

History

Opened in 1939, the school was previously known as Granby Street High School, reflecting the street on which it is located. Both the street and the school are named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby, a hero of the Seven Years' War. The twenty-four acre tract on which Granby was built was once part of the Talbot Plantation before the property was donated to the city by Winton W. Talbot. The current principal of Granby High School is Ted Daughtrey.
Granby High School also has a small crew team, the only one in the Norfolk Public Schools' history to compete at SRA Nationals.The crew team shares their boathouse with Maury High School. The Granby Crew has competed at regional, state, national, and international regattas such as the Stotesbury Cup.
Granby also has many other sports' teams. These include boys and girls tennis, track, cross country, baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball, field hockey, girls and boys soccer, football, and girls and boys swimming. The girls tennis team has been Eastern District Champions for seven of the last eight years. The boys basketball team won the State Championships in 2000. Many of the other sports teams have won district championships as well.
Blue, Gold, and Silver are the school colors. Blue representing the color of the Chesapeake Bay, which is in Granby's vicinity. The gold and silver is derived from the proverb:"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." This quote is also hung on a plaque in the hallway.
Granby's school symbol is the comet. It also has a newspaper entitled "The Spectator," and annually publishes a literary magazine called "The Cupola," named after the structure on the top of the school's roof. The weathervane on top of the cupola was bent as a result of tropical storm Ernesto, but was fixed within six months.

Famous Alumni

Andrew Coplon - President of Innuendo Entertainment; concert promoter at The NorVa (IB graduate)

Levi Brown - 2003-2007 offensive tackle at Penn State; overall 5th NFL draft pick 2007 - Arizona Cardinals. (IB graduate)

Ed Schultz - Radio talk show host
Lefty Driesell - Former Basketball Coach at Maryland, JMU, and Georgia State

Trivia

★ Granby High School was built as a WPA project during the Great Depression. It was later remodeled in 1998.

★ Billy Martin, head wrestling coach for Granby, won 21 state titles. A wrestling move he taught his athletes, the Granby roll, is used by many wrestlers and landed Martin in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

★ Granby High School used to be a fallout shelter.

★ From 1939 until 1948, Granby Elementary School was included in the high school. Granby Elementary then moved across the street into its own plot.

External links

★ Granby High School

★ Norfolk Public Schools