Archbishop Alter High School, also known as Alter High School, is a

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. It is operated by the

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and is named after Archbishop Karl Joseph Alter.

History

In October 1958, Catholics of the

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area pledged $4,953,050 to help pay the costs of building Catholic high schools in the area. Among the schools built with this money were Archbishop Alter High School and its mirror image, Carroll High School, built the previous year. Development of Alter High School was led by

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Paul F. Leibold, and, at the request of the people, the school was named after Archbishop Karl Alter. Archbishop Karl Alter was born on August 18, 1885, and died on August 23, 1977. The school saw its first students on September 5, 1962, with an incoming class of 250 freshmen. In each of the next three years a new freshman class would be added, so, by the year 1965, the school offered grades 9 through 12, with the first class graduating in 1966. Alter High's first principal was Reverend Edward F. Haskamp, serving from 1962 to 1970. In 2005, Alter High named Fr. James Manning, former

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of St. Albert the Great Parish in Kettering, as its first President.

Faculty

Alter High School's faculty is composed of diocesan priests of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati,

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of Mount St. Joseph, and lay teachers.

Academics

Alter features a strong STEM Curriculum through a partnership with Project Lead the Way. Alter has earned a Governor's Award for STEM education and has added 6 new labs to the school since 2009. 20 Students participated in the State Science Fair and 4 earned perfect scores in 2014. Every student at Alter is now equipped with a laptop computer complete with Microsoft Office software. The OGT pass rate at Alter is 100%. The school provides AP classes, which offer the prospect of college credit as well as a weighted grade. The Taylor College Lab at Alter was provided by a generous donation and operated by Sinclair College, it offers students a way to take classes for college credit and remain on Alter's campus. Students may use this facility to take practice exams for ACT, SAT and other academic tests. They may also work on college résumés and applications in the lab and along with the guidance office was responsible for the $15,500,000 full and partial academic, athletic and arts scholarships generated by the Class of 2014. A student's school day begins at 8:00 AM and ends at 3:05 PM and the schedule was changed for the 2009–2010 school year to include eight 46-minute class periods and a 25-minute lunch period, with three minutes between each period to change classes. This change has allowed the students more flexibility with choosing electives or study halls within their schedules.

Performing arts at Alter

The school offers a number of opportunities in the creative and performing arts. Alter now has a performing arts wing, named the 'Christine Connor and Fred J. Miller Conservatory of the Arts' added to the building after many donations.

Bands

Alter students can choose to participate in multiple ensembles during the year: the Marching Knights, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Wind Ensemble, String Ensemble, Woodwind and Brass Ensembles, Winter Guard and Winter Drumline. The music department has been under the direction of Todd Tucker since 2007. The Marching Knights are the musical ambassadors for Archbishop Alter High School. In addition to their musical support and performances at football games, the band also appears at festivals and in parades in the community. Competitively, The Marching Knights perform on th
Mid States Band Association (MSBA) circuit regionally
which includes bands from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan, and the Bands of America (BOA) circuit nationally. The band has been an MSBA Class Champion 9 times since 2012, including a 6-year run from 2012-2017, and in 2022 the Marching Knights captured their first BOA Grand National Class A Championship in Indianapolis. The Marching Knights typically field a membership of 35 students, but see success on the national scale despite their size. The band has been a BOA Regional Finalist by score at multiple competitions since 2012, and in 2016 won Class A at the BOA St. Louis Super Regional, notching their first Class A win at any BOA competition. Due to their performance at the 2013 Atlanta BOA Super Regional, the group was asked by Winter Guard International (WGI) to be one of 3 groups to help pilot their new division, WGI Winds, in the spring of 2014 by performing in exhibition at two WGI regional competitions. Since 2009, the band has made annual trips to the BOA Grand National Championships in Indianapolis (excepting 2020, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic), and have seen increased success during that span. The Knights first broke into Grand National Semi-Finals in 2013 (i.e., were in the top four Class A bands), marking the first of 4 appearances over the next 5 years, and 6 appearances over the next 10. In 2014 and 2016, the Marching Knights found the podium in addition to their semi-finals appearance, where they finished 3rd in both years. In 2021, at Grand Nationals, the band returned to Semi-Finals for the first time since 2017, finished 2nd, and won the Class A Visual caption, marking both their highest placement to date and their first caption win at Nationals. In 2022, the Marching Knights won Class A at the Bands of America Grand National Championships with their show "Overjoyed", which featured the music of Stevie Wonder. During their preliminary performance, the band scored an 81.500 and finished 37th, marking their highest overall finish at Grand Nationals. Their score of 79.400 in Semi-Finals is their highest final-show score at Grand Nationals.

Band shows

*Semi-Finals Appearance Winter Guard shows: :2014 Seize the Day :2015 Music Box :2016 It Gets Better :2017 Rise to Power :2018 The Original Imagineer :2019 Workin' it Out! WGI Winds :2014 Magic Show (as exhibition) :2015 fiVe :2016-Present: Did not compete

Theatre

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Alter's theatre program grew into its own department with additional classes and very impressive productions. Several shows since 2001 have brought first and second place state awards in categories of Group Musical, Solo, Lighting, Sound, Design, Duet and Playwrighting, including How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Teahouse of the August Moon, Anything Goes and Cabaret. Alter has gained acclaim within the Miami Valley for excellence in arts education. This due to strong support from the community and administration and a tradition of excellence over the years by theatre directors Bob Heman, Trace Crawford, Bryan Wallingford, Katie Arber, and (currently) Megan Wean-Sears. The school's Theatre department has produced many stellar productions (see list below). Another unique facet of the program is Alter's Thespian Troupe (#5802), a chapter of an international organization dedicated to the celebration of achievement in theatre arts education. Alter proudly takes place in many thespian-related activities.

Past productions

*2022-23 - ''Clue'', ''The Anxiety Project'', ''Alter's Got Talent'', ''

Singin' in the Rain ''Singin' in the Rain'' is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Rita Moreno a ...

'' *2021-22 - '' The Play That Goes Wrong'', '' The Lightning Thief'', '' Newsies'' *2020-21 - ''Breaking the Fifth Wall'', ''

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, based on the character of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice ...

'' *2019-20 - '' 26 Pebbles'', '' Freaky Friday'', '' Once on This Island'' *2018-19 - ''

The Guys ''The Guys'' is a play by Anne Nelson about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. A film version of the play was released in 2002 and starred Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia. History In the play, Joan, an editor, h ...

'', ''

Steel Magnolias ''Steel Magnolias'' is a 1989 American comedy drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts. The screenplay by Robert Harling is based on hi ...

, Songs for a New World, Thoroughly Modern Millie'' *2017-18 - '' Lost in Yonkers'', ''Godspell'' *2016-17 - '' And Then They Came for Me'', ''

The Drowsy Chaperone ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. The story concerns a middle-aged, asocial musical theater fan who, feeling "blue", decides to pl ...

'' *2015-16 - '' Blithe Spirit'', ''

Aida ''Aida'' (or ''Aïda'', ) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 De ...

'' *2014-15 - '' The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940'', ''

Into the Woods ''Into the Woods'' is a 1986 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. T ...

'' *2013-14 - '' Boeing-Boeing'', '' Children of Eden'' *2012-13 - '' The Bad Seed'', ''

Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...

'' *2011-12 - ''

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' is a 1971 American musical film, musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart from a screenplay by Roald Dahl, based on his 1964 novel ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''. It stars Gene Wilder as chocol ...

'', ''

Bye Bye Birdie ''Bye Bye Birdie'' is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart. Originally titled ''Let's Go Steady'', ''Bye Bye Birdie'' is set in 1958. The play's book was influenced by El ...

'' *2010-11 - ''

The Snow Queen "The Snow Queen" () is an 1844 original fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published 21 December 1844 in ''New Fairy Tales. First Volume#New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection, New Fairy Tales. First Vo ...

'', ''

Oklahoma! ''Oklahoma!'' is the first musical theater, musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, ''Green Grow the Lilacs (play), Green Grow the Lilacs''. Set in farm country outside the town of ...

'' *2009-10 - ''Once Upon a Pandora's Box'', ''

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'' *2008-09 - '' Miss Nelson Is Missing!'', '' Grease'' *2007-08 - '' Inspecting Carol'', '' Thoroughly Modern Millie'' *2006-07 - ''

Romeo and Juliet ''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'', often shortened to ''Romeo and Juliet'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ...

'', ''

Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors may refer to: * '' The Little Shop of Horrors'', a 1960 American film * ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (musical), a 1982 musical based on the 1960 film * ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (1986 film), a 1986 American film based on th ...

'' *2005-06 - '' Arsenic and Old Lace'', '' Seussical'' *2004-05 - '' Epic Proportions'', ''

Godspell ''Godspell'' is a musical in two acts with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John-Michael Tebelak. The show is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with music mostly set t ...

'' *2003-04 - '' The Odd Couple'', '' How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'' *2002-03 - '' The Teahouse of the August Moon'', '' 42nd Street'' *2001-02 - ''The Witching Hour'', '' Anything Goes'' *2000-01 - ''

The Rivals ''The Rivals'' is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The story has been updated frequently, including a 1935 musical and a 1958 List of Maverick ...

'', ''

'' *1999-2000 - '' The Visit'', '' Will Rogers Follies'' *1998-99 - '' Don't Drink the Water'', ''

Guys and Dolls ''Guys and Dolls'' is a musical theater, musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Run ...

'' *1997-98 - '' The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940'', ''

'' *1977-78 - ''Oliver''

Dance

Alter High School is home to the largest all female high school dance team in the state of Ohio, the Lancerettes. The Lancerettes are an all female non-competing team lead by Cynthia Duckro Jecker, a graduate of the school in 1994. The Lancerettes perform during halftime at 4-5 football, basketball, and soccer games every season. The Lancerettes of Alter High School currently have 74 members and are known for their white boots and high kick routines.

Clubs and activities

The school's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) and the

National Junior Classical League The National Junior Classical League (National JCL or NJCL) is a youth organization of secondary school students sponsored and organized by the American Classical League (ACL). Founded in 1936, the NJCL comprises more than 1,000 Latin, Greek a ...

(NJCL).

Sports

Archbishop Alter High School's team nickname is the Knights; their colors are brown and gold. In general, both the boys' and girls' teams belong to the GCL-CoEd (Greater Catholic League). Home

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and

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games are played in the school

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. The school also owns a soccer field encircled by a track, where the

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team plays its home games and the

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team practices. Although they have a four lane track with a football field, some home football games are typically held at other local high schools such as Fairmont High School or Centerville High School.

Ohio High School Athletic Association state championships

* Boys'

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- 2008, 2009 * Boys'

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- 1978, 1999, 2001, 2024 * Boys' Cross Country - 1996 * Boys'

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- 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2022, 2023, 2024 * Boys'

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

- 1987, 1988, 1996, 1998, 2016 * Girls'

- 2016, 2019 * Girls'

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

- 2002, 2003, 2006 * Girls'

- 2008, 2015 (''completed a perfect 30-0 2014-2015 season''), 2016, 2017, 2022 * Girls' Cross Country- 2007

Other athletic accomplishments

* Boys'

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- team state champs 1976* * Girls'

- team state champs 2001* * Boys

- team state champs 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017* : *Note - The

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does not hold team state championship tournaments for girls and boys tennis. Rather, they are administered by the state coaches' association of their respective sports. Boys volleyball was also administered by the state coaches' association until becoming a sanctioned OHSAA sport beginning with the 2022–2023 academic year.

Boys' sports

A full listing of the boys' sports offered at Alter High School: *

* Cross Country *

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* Swimming & Diving *

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Lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

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Girls' sports

A full listing of the girls' sports offered at Alter High School: *

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* Cross Country *

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* Swimming & Diving *

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Rivalries

Alter High has a number of sports

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. Depending on the sport, the school's biggest games each year are against local public school rivals Kettering Fairmont High School (Ohio) or Centerville High School. Chaminade-Julienne High School, Bishop Fenwick High School (Franklin, Ohio) and

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are the three local Catholic School rivals. Alter has won 10 GCL All-Sports Trophies in a row.

Spirit

Alter High School is marked by the school spirit of its students. Every Friday is Spirit Day, on which students are allowed to wear a spirit shirt of the school colors along with the standard uniform pants. Sporting events, especially football and basketball games, are well-attended by students. A tradition of dress up "themes" for each of the home football games has developed as a fun display of school spirit. Past themes include "Knight Night" and "Alter Teacher Night." The theme of the homecoming game is always "Toga Night." Pep rallies are common on the days of rivalry games.

Alma mater

The

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is played by the school band at the end of every pep rally and on various other occasions. While it is played, students extend their arms over the shoulders and neck of those to their left and right and sway together with the music. When the lyrics reach "High in Hope and Spirit," the student unjoin and proceed to raise and lower their right arms,

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extended as if pointing, holding the position at the end of each line until the song ends. The Alma Mater was written by one of the first nuns to teach at the school.

Fight song

Although not as common as the Alma Mater, Alter High School also has a

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. This may be sung on occasions such as a team bus ride to a sporting event or after a victory, but is most commonly sung on the bus after a football victory. After the game, the team will go over to the student section and sing the fight song. The Fight Song was written by one of the first nuns to teach at Alter.

Notable alumni

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- football player (NCAA) * Chris Borland - football player (NFL) * David Bradley - inventor of the

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keyboard combination * Megan Courtney - volleyball player * Jeff Graham - football player (NFL) * Theresa Gavarone - politician * Timothy Keating - retired Admiral, United States Navy * Randy Leen - low amateur, 1996 U.S. Open * Holley Mangold - Olympic weightlifter *

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- football player,

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( NFL) * Steve Martino - director ( Ice Age: Continental Drift and

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) *

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- basketball player and general manager (

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) *

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- basketball player and general manager (

) * Jeff Reboulet - baseball player (MLB) * Madeline Rogero - first female mayor of

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* Stephen Scaia - producer, writer * Chris Thomas - basketball coach * Joe Thuney - football player,

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References

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