Garden Grove High School

Garden Grove High School

"Pride, Performance, and the Pursuit of Excellence"
Address
11271 Stanford Avenue
33°46′43″N 117°56′12″W / 33.77861°N 117.93667°W / 33.77861; -117.93667Coordinates: 33°46′43″N 117°56′12″W / 33.77861°N 117.93667°W / 33.77861; -117.93667
Garden Grove, California, Orange
Information
School type Public
Founded 1921
Principal Steve Osborne
Grades 9–12
Enrollment approx. 2,300 (2010)
Language English
Color(s) Red and white         
Mascot Argonauts
Team name Argonauts
Newspaper The Pulse
Website www.gghs.us

Garden Grove High School is a high school located in Garden Grove, California. It is a member of the Garden Grove Unified School District.

History

The Garden Grove Union High School District was established in 1921 in response to attempts by neighboring school districts to annex the Garden Grove area. GGHS opened its doors in September 1921 in temporary facilities. The school moved to its present location on Stanford Avenue in 1923.

The school's athletic teams were originally known as "Chili Peppers", reflecting the dominant local crop of the time. In the 1920s, the name "Argonauts" was chosen. They are known as Argos for short.

GGHS was badly damaged by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake; the main classroom building suffered a partial collapse and one student was killed. The structure was rebuilt and is still in use, having been renamed Heritage Hall. It also houses the Argonaut Hall of Fame and Museum, chronicling the school's long history, as well as a memorial to Michael Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and an alumnus of Garden Grove High School.

GGHS grew with the post-World War II boom and by the 1960s, it was joined by six other high schools in what is now the Garden Grove Unified School District.

In the 2004–2005 school year, Garden Grove High School was named a California Distinguished School.

Athletics

On September 11, 2009, while playing football against Westminster High School, starting fullback and linebacker Kevin Telles collapsed during the fourth quarter and died. His death was later ruled myocarditis.[1][2]

The Argonauts made the CIF Southern Section Football finals in 2009, but lost. The Argonauts won their first CIF Southern Section Football title in 2010 as champions of the Southern Division,and their second,came in 2014 against cross-city rival Rancho Alamitos. Other Southern Section CIF titles won by the school include coed badminton (1986, 1995 and 1999), girls' field hockey (1979, 1982, and 1983), and girls' softball (1985).

Performing arts

Instrumental music

Garden Grove High School offers music courses in marching band, concert band, beginning instruments, jazz band, and beginning and advanced string orchestra. The highlights of the year are concerts in the winter and spring along with annual music competitions for all groups. Each year during Memorial Day weekend, the Argonaut Marching Band and Colorguard act as host band in the Strawberry Festival Parade in Garden Grove, California. In April 2012, Garden Grove High School's Percussion Ensemble received first place in Scholastic C in the ADLA Championships. In May 2012, for the third year in a row Garden Grove High School's String Orchestra received the "Unanimous Superior" rating at the SCSBOA regional festival for the mature sound and advanced musicianship of the group.

2013 marked the Argonaut orchestra's most successful year to date. After scoring scores of Unanimous Superior at both the SCSBOA festival at University High School and at their very own Garden Grove High School, the GGHS Chamber Orchestra traveled to San Francisco to perform in the Heritage Festival. The orchestra grabbed many awards, including Best Orchestra, Judge's Award, and Gold standing (the highest achieved). The Argonauts then came back to their home auditorium in Don Wash to perform as a live orchestra for three nights at Garden Grove High School's production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast musical. They finished off their competition season with a Superior rating at the Kennedy High School SCSBOA Regional Festival, breaking their three-year streak of unanimous superiors.

Activities

In 2010, three students (Steven Chau, Scott Nguyen, and Kalin Zaluzec) on the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement participated in the National Competition for the Wind Energy Challenge, taking first place.[3]

Notable alumni

Arts

Sports

Business, politics, and the military

References

  1. ↑ Bolch, Ben; Louis Sahagun (12 September 2009). "Garden Grove High football player collapses, dies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Sondheimer, Eric (20 February 2010). "Cause of high school football players' deaths released". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  3. ↑ MESA

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