Taylor Allderdice High School
Taylor Allderdice High School, built in 1927 in the Squirrel Hill neigborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, maintains a long history of superior academic performance among public high schools. The U.S. Department of Education recognized Taylor Allderdice as a Blue Ribbon school, its highest award, in 1994, 1995, and 1996.[1]
Though it has served students of grades 9-12 for most of its history, it has sometimes enrolled and instructed students in grade 8. The school has the largest enrollment of public city high schools in Pittsburgh.
The school's motto is "Know something. Do something. Be something."
The Foreword
The school has published its newspaper, the Foreword, since Taylor Allderdice's founding in 1927.[2] In the early 1990's, the entire run of the paper was archived in the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library,[3] and Taylor Allderdice remains one of fewer than sixty high schools in the world to have its newspaper archived on microfilm in a major library.[4] Faculty oversees the professionally styled newspaper's production, ensuring that "...the work focuses on students gathering accurate information and interviews from official sources...".[5] During the 1970's the school considered the Foreword to be "Serving Allderdice High School and the community,"[6] reaching more than 5000 readers.[7][8][9]
References
- ↑ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002, p.71. Accessed August 22, 2007.
- ↑ Cf. the first record retrieved by a search of the University of Pittsburgh library database at http://pittcat.pitt.edu on the search term "taylor allderdice foreword" and also cf. http://allderdicehs.pghboe.net/foreword/foreword-p1.shtm. Both retrieved on December 12, 2006.
- ↑ The WorldCat record retrieved on December 12, 2006 was:
Local Holdings: Univ of Pittsburgh 1-121 (1927-1992)
Database: WorldCat
Availability: Check the catalogs in your library. Libraries worldwide that own item: 1
Find Items About: Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)8
Title: The foreword.
Corp Author(s): Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Publication: Pittsburgh, PA : Taylor Allderdice High School,
Year: 1927-
Description: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1927)-; v. :; ill.
Language: English
Standard No: LCCN: sn 94-42407
SUBJECT(S)
Named Corp: Taylor Allderdice High School -- Periodicals.
Note(s): Title from caption./ Reproduction: Microfilm./ Pittsburgh, PA :/ Archives of Industrial Society, University of Pittsburgh,/ 1994./ microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Material Type: Periodical (per); Microfilm (mfl)
Document Type: Serial
Entry: 19940830
Update: 20040210
Accession No: OCLC: 31030797
Provider: OCLC
Database: WorldCat
N.B. Note the Entry date and also see note above.
- ↑ A WorldCat search of the OCLC database on December 12, 2006 for author>corporate and conference name = high school; material type = periodical; and material type = microform returned 56 hits. The Foreword was record #18.
- ↑ http://http://allderdicehs.pghboe.net/departments/english/couses.shtm. Retrieved on December 12, 2006.
- ↑ The Allderdice:51. Pittsburgh: Taylor Allderdice High School, 1980. 74. Retrieved on 2006-12-12..
- ↑ Foreword, 099:1, February 14, 1978, 8. Retrieved on 2006-12-12..
- ↑ Foreword, 099:2, March 17, 1978, 8. Retrieved on 2006-12-12..
- ↑ Foreword, 099:3, April 19, 1978, 6. Retrieved on 2006-12-12..