Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (BPI), but known most commonly as Poly, is a magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Though established as an all male trade school Poly now serves as a coeducational college preparatory institution that emphasizes mathematics, the sciences, and engineering. Poly is located on a 53 acre tract of land in North Baltimore at Falls Road and Cold Spring Lane, bordering Roland Park to the east and I-83 to the west. Poly and Western High School originally Poly's sister school are located on the same campus and share several amenities including a cafeteria, auditorium, and athletic fields. Baltimore City College and Poly share a long standing rivalry centered around the annual City–Poly football game. Poly is a Maryland Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Image File history File links BPI_seal. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N... Mr. ... The school systems logo The Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) is a public school district in the state of Maryland that serves the youth of city of Baltimore (in distinction to the county of Baltimore). ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... In the U.S. system of education, a magnet school is a public school which offers innovative courses, specialized training, etc. ... For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ... Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the U.S. system of education, a magnet school is a public school which offers innovative courses, specialized training, etc. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... Baltimore redirects here. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school, or prep school) is a private secondary school (or high school) designed to prepare a student for higher education. ... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... Engineering is the discipline of acquiring and applying knowledge of design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ... Roland Park may refer to: Roland Park, the upper class neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland Roland Park Country School, a school in Baltimore This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Interstate 83 is an interstate highway in the eastern United States. ... Western High School is a public senior high school in Parma, Michigan, USA. It has classes for grades 9 through 12. ... Baltimore City College (BCC), also referred to as The Castle on the Hill, and more commonly as City, is a public secondary school in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. that focuses on the humanities and liberal arts. ... City v Poly (November, 2006) M&T Bank Stadium The City–Poly football rivalry is the oldest football rivalry in Maryland, U.S. and the second oldest public school rivalry—predated only by the rivalry between the Boston Latin School and the English High School of Boston. ...

History

BPI was founded in 1883 when Joshua Plaskitt petitioned the Baltimore City authorities to establish a school for instruction in engineering. The original school was named the Baltimore Manual Training School, and its first class was made up of about sixty students, all of whom were male. The official name of the school was changed in the 1890s to the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The first principal, Dr. Richard Grady, along with his successor, Lt. John Ford, helped to strengthen and develop the curriculum of the school, while it gained even further notoriety during the tenure of Lieutenant William King, the third director of the school, after which King Memorial Hall is named. Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute on North Avenue

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Relocation

Due to continued growth of the student population at Poly, the school relocated in 1913 to Calvert Street and North Avenue. While at this location, the school expanded both its academic and athletic programs under the supervision of Dr. Wilmer Dehuff, arguably the most famous principal of the Institute. Dehuff later served as the president and Dean of Faculty at the University of Baltimore. Dehuff, who was principal from 1921 to 1958 also reluctantly oversaw the racial integration of the school in 1952, the first instance in City of Baltimore public schools. Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The University of Baltimore (UB), located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland in the Mt. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Jan. ... Children at a parade in North College Hill, Ohio Racial integration, or simply integration includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation). ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United...

Integration

Most Baltimore City public schools were not integrated until after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Poly was rare among high schools across the country for two reasons: the advanced college preparatory curriculum it offered and in 1952 it would be forced to offer it to black students. The school's tough ‘A’ course included calculus, analytical chemistry, electricity, mechanics and surveying; subjects not offered at the black schools in the City at that time. ^[1] Poly was a whites’ only school but supported by both white and black tax dollars. No black schools in the City offered such courses nor did they have the class rooms, labs, libraries or teachers comparable to those at Poly. Due to these conditions, a group of 16 African American students, along with help and support from their parents, the Baltimore Urban League and the NAACP, applied for the engineering “A” course at the Poly. ^[2] The applications were denied and the students sued. The subsequent trial on the suit began on June 16, 1952. The NAACP’s intentions were to end segregation at the 50-year-old prestigious public high school. In the Poly case, they argued that Poly’s offerings of specialized engineering courses violated the “separate but equal” clause because it was not offered in high schools for black students. To avoid integration, an out-of-court proposal was made to the Baltimore City school board to start an equivalent “A” course at the colored Douglass high school. The hearing on the "Douglass" plan lasted for hours with Dehuff and others arguing that separate but equal "A" courses would satisfy constitutional requirements and Thurgood Marshall arguing that the plan was a gamble the City should not take. By a vote of 5-3, the board decided that a separate “A” course would not provide the same educational opportunities for African American students and that starting that fall, African American students could attend Poly.^[3] Thirteen African American students, Leonard Cephas, Carl Clark, William Clark, Milton Cornish, Clarence Daly, Victor Dates, Alvin Giles, Bucky Hawkins, Linwood Jones, Edward Savage, Everett Sherman, Robert Young, and Silas Young, finally entered the school that fall. They were faced daily with racial epithets, threats of violence and isolation from many of the more than 2,000 students at the school.^[4] Holding Segregation of students in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because separate facilities are inherently unequal. ... National Urban League Logo The National Urban League is a non-profit, nonpartisan, civil rights and community-based movement that advocates on behalf of Black Americans and against racial discrimination. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential hate organizations in the United States. ... Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. ...

Poly Complex

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's current building on Falls Road

In 1967, then-principal Claude Burkert (1958-1969) oversaw the relocation of his school to its current location at 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, a fifty-three acre tract of land bordering Falls Road and Roland Park. Also occupying this site is the Western High School, an all-girl school founded in 1844. Notable buildings on the campus include Dehuff Hall, also known as the academic building, where students attend normal classes, and Burkert Hall, also called the engineering building, where students attend classes in the Willard Hackerman Engineering Program. Both Western High School and Poly students make use of the auditorium/cafeteria complex, and likewise share the large gymnasium, swimming pool and sports fields. While these two schools share grounds and buildings, that is all they share: their respective academic programs are completely separate from one another. And as well as the students are not allowed on each others grounds with out permission. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 317 pixelsFull resolution (2856 × 1131 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 317 pixelsFull resolution (2856 × 1131 pixel, file size: 2. ... Roland Park, one of Baltimores more suburban communities, was created early in the 20th century as an upper class neighborhood. ... Western High School is the oldest public all-girl high school in the United States. ... Jan. ...

In 1974, Poly officially became coeducational when it began admitting female students. In the late 1980s, the title "principal" was changed to "director." After the retirement of Director John Dohler in 1990, Barbara Stricklin became the first woman to head the school, as she accepted the title of Interim Director. During Director Ian Cohen's tenure (1994-2003), Poly's curriculum was again expanded when it began offering AP classes. During the 2001-2002 school year, Poly was recognized by the Maryland State Department of Education when Poly was named a "Blue Ribbon School of Excellence." Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Advanced Placement (AP) is the term used to describe high school classes that are taught at a college level. ...

In 2004 Dr. Barney Wilson, a 1976 Poly graduate became Baltimore Polytechnic Institutes' first African-American Director. A strong advocate for his students, and after only two years of work, Dr. Wilson helped the Class of 2006 achieve a 98% college acceptance rate, with over $10,000,000 in scholarships awarded - $50,000 of which came from Poly's own Alumni Association. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Baltimore chapter of the Algebra project is active at Poly and many other Baltimore-area high schools. The Algebra Project is a national U.S. mathematics literacy effort aimed at helping low-income students and students of color successfully achieve mathematical skills that are a prerequisite for a college preparatory mathematics sequence in high school. ...

Poly is also a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.

Athletics

Football

Since the early 1900s, the Engineers, along with City, had dominated the Maryland Scholastic Association(MSA) football scene. However, since joing the MPPSSA in 1993 Poly has has made it to the final game once in 1993, the semifinals once in 1997 and the quater finals in 1994 and 1998.^[5] City v Poly (November, 2006) M&T Bank Stadium Rivalires between schools on the football gridiron began in 1869 when Rutgers beat Princeton; the Harvard-Yale rivalry started soon after as did the City-Poly rivalry. ...

Lumsden-Scott Stadium at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute

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2007 football schedule/results

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Poly and City

Main article: City–Poly football rivalry

BPI and Baltimore City College share one of the oldest public high school football rivalries in the United States, with the first competition between Polytechnic and Baltimore City College taking place in 1889. The game was played as a scrimmage during the late 1800s with City winning all twelve scrimmages, but since then, Poly leads the series including winning 17 games in a row starting in the 1970s. For fifty years the game was played on Thanksgiving Day, but when both schools joined the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, the game was moved up two weeks so as not to conflict with MPSSAA's playoff schedule. The Poly-City game is still a regular November tradition in Baltimore City with people on each side of the divide hoping for bragging rights. City v Poly (November, 2006) M&T Bank Stadium The City–Poly football rivalry is the oldest football rivalry in Maryland, U.S. and the second oldest public school rivalry—predated only by the rivalry between the Boston Latin School and the English High School of Boston. ... Baltimore City College (BCC), also referred to as The Castle on the Hill, and more commonly as City, is a public secondary school in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. that focuses on the humanities and liberal arts. ... A list of long-standing High School Football Rivalries: Categories: | | | ... City v Poly (November, 2006) M&T Bank Stadium Rivalires between schools on the football gridiron began in 1869 when Rutgers beat Princeton; the Harvard-Yale rivalry started soon after as did the City-Poly rivalry. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United...

Principals/Directors

• Dr. Richard Grady (1883-1886)
• Lt. John D. Ford (1886-1890)
• Lieutenant William King (1890-1921)
• Dr. Wilmer Dehuff (1921-1958)
• Claude Burkert (1958-1969)
• William Gerardi (1969-1980)
• Zeney Jacobs (1980-1984)
• Gary Thrift (1984-1985)
• John Dohler (1985-1990)
• Barbara Stricklin (1990-1991)
• Dr. Albert Strickland (1991-1994)
• Ian Cohen (1994-2003)
• Sharon Kanter (2003-2004)
• Dr. Barney Wilson (2004-present)

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Notable alumni

Arts, literature and entertainment

• Dashiell Hammett, author, works include The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man
• Mark Longo, Artist
• H. L. Mencken, writer

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Business

• Alonzo G. Decker, former chairman, Black and Decker Corporation
• W. Brook Tunstall, vice-president, AT&T; director, Brooktrout Technologies

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Judiciary

• Edward F. Borgerding, Baltimore City District Court (1971-1988)
• Alfred L. Brennan, Baltimore City Circuit Court (1988-1998)
• Ben Clyburn, Baltimore City District Court
• John Glynn, Baltimore City Circuit Court
• William H. Murphy, Jr., Baltimore City Circuit Court (1982-1986)
• Al Nance, Baltimore City Circuit Court
• Thomas E. Noel, Baltimore City Circuit Court (1983-2006)
• Lawrence Rushworth, Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, (1989-1999)

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Legislative

• Thomas L. Bromwell, (D), Maryland State Senator, District 8 Baltimore County, (1983-2002)[1]
• Andrew J. Burns, Jr., (D), Maryland State Delegate, District 43, Baltimore City (1967-1982)
• Cornell Dypski, (D), Maryland State Delegate, District 46, Baltimore City (1987-2003)
• Edward Garmatz, U.S. Congressman representing Maryland's 3rd District, (1947-1973)
• Clarence M. Mitchell IV, (D), Maryland State Senator, District 39 Baltimore City, (1999-2003)

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Science

• Robert H. Roy, mechanical engineer, Dean of Engineering and Science, Johns Hopkins University

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Sports

• Antonio Freeman, former Wide Receiver for the Green Bay Packers
• Greg Schaum - former defensiveman with New England Patriots[2]

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Notes

Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Baltimore Polytechnic Institute official website
• Class of 1987 website
• Class of 1986 website
• Class of 1956 website
• Maryland Report Card - Baltimore Polytechnic Institute