Hamburg High School (Hamburg, New York)

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Hamburg High School is a public secondary school in Hamburg, Erie County, New York, United States. Hamburg High School has approximately 1,300 students in grades 9-12. The mascot of Hamburg High School is the bulldog, and the school colors are purple and white. Their chief athletic rivals are the cross-town Frontier Falcons, Orchard Park Quakers, and Lake Shore Eagles.

Previous assignment and reason for departure denoted in parentheses

• Byron Heath
• Ford R. Park
• Albert H. Downey–1909–1918 (Principal – Williamsville High School, named Principal of Waterloo High School)
• Frank N. Zurbick–1918–1926
• Vernon Simmons–1926–1940 (History teacher – Hamburg High School, resigned)
• Leon E. Leader–1940–1946
• Spencer W. Ravel–1940–1972 (unknown, retired^[5])
• Lawrence S. Hood–1972–1998 (Assistant Principal – Westhill Junior-Senior High School, retired^[5])
• Jean M. Kovach–1998–2000 (Assistant Principal – West Seneca East High School,^[5] named Director of Instruction of Hamburg Central School District^[4])
• Jacqueline K. Peffer–2000–2005 (Principal – Middleport Elementary School,^[4] named Principal of Union Pleasant Elementary School^[6])
• Michael J. Gallagher–2005–2021 (Principal – North Collins Junior/Senior High School,^[7] retired)

• George Abbott, Broadway producer
• Rosemary Barnsdall Blackmon, writer and magazine editor
• Colleen Brunner, one of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103; a scholarship for seniors is awarded annually in her memory
• Kathy Hochul, governor of New York^[8]
• E. Howard Hunt, author, CIA officer, member of the White House Plumbers, organizer of the Watergate burglary
• Howard J. Osborn, former CIA director of security
• Alison Pipitone singer songwriter, and guitarist
• Tom Toles, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post.

• http://www.hamburgschools.org

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