Eastview Secondary School

Eastview
Secondary School
Address
421 Grove Street East
Barrie, Ontario, L4M 5S1
Canada
Coordinates 44°24′19″N 79°39′42″W / 44.4053°N 79.6618°W / 44.4053; -79.6618Coordinates: 44°24′19″N 79°39′42″W / 44.4053°N 79.6618°W / 44.4053; -79.6618
Information
Established 1967
School board Simcoe County District School Board
School number 907383
Principal Jane Seymour
Vice principal Marnie Ridout-Craig, Harry Stegenga, Julie Richardson
Grades 9 - 12[1]
Enrollment 1440 (2015-2016[1])
Colour(s) red, blue and gold             
Team name Eastview Wildcats
Website eas.scdsb.on.ca

Eastview Secondary School is a public secondary school (grades 9-12) located in northeastern Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It currently has an enrollment of about 1700 students and its principal is Jane Seymour. Its Vice Principals are Harry Stegenga, Marnie Ridout-Craig and Julie Richardson. Eastview is one of the largest high schools in Barrie, Ontario, and also buses students from Midhurst, Ontario. It has a string-music program, making it unique in the county. The mascot of the school is a wildcat. The football coach is Martin Carl.

Computing History

Built in 1967, Eastview was equipped with the first student accessible mainframe computer in Simcoe County. The General Electric GE-115 was equipped with 12K of magnetic-core memory and a hard disk drive with a removable disk pack.[2] The GE-115 computer was housed in a climate controlled room and operated by students. Students at Eastview could use punched card decks to submit FORTRAN and COBOL programs to be run by the student operators. Other high schools sent in their programs encoded on mark sense cards and would receive the output bundled around their cards after their jobs were submitted. With the advent of the microcomputer in the late 1970s, Eastview computer curriculum grew to include courses based on the Tandy Corporation TRS-80 and Commodore PET using the computer language, BASIC. In 1981, the GE-115 mainframe computer was dismantled and shipped to the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Eastview Secondary School". About Us. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  2. ↑ "GE-115 System Software Manual", General Electric Information Systems, 1967.

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