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Ann Arbor Huron High School
Location
Ann Arbor, MI,  United States
Information
Locale	Ann Arbor Public Schools
Type	Public secondary
Grades	9-12
Mascot	River Rats
Established	August 1969
Homepage	http://www.a2huron.org

Huron High School is a public school in Ann Arbor, in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located at 2727 Fuller Road in eastern Ann Arbor near the banks of the Huron River, it serves grades 9 through 12.

The school's principal is Dr. Arthur Williams.

Contents 1 Administration 2 History 3 Clubs and Organizations 3.1 Huron Players 3.2 Film Club 3.3 Student Council 4 Publications 5 Notable alumni 6 See also 7 External links

For the 2006/2007 school year, Huron had six administrators:

Dr. Arthur Williams- Principal; Marcus Edmondson- Assistant Principal, Class of 2007; Dr. Virginia Bell- Assistant Principal, Class of 2008; Jennifer Hein- Assistant Principal, Class of 2009; Margaret Jewett- Assistant Principal, Class of 2010; Dottie Davis- Assistant Principal, Interim Athletic Director;

Huron opened in the fall of 1969 when the high-school baby boom population was at its peak. The student body at the city's only public high school, Ann Arbor High, had recently outgrown its quarters on the city's west side. The school board constructed a second high school, renaming the first to Pioneer High School, with the new school named Huron High School. In 1968, before Huron's building was completed, students from the old and new schools shared the Pioneer building in a split schedule with Pioneer students attending classes in the morning and Huron students in the afternoon. Reaction against Pioneer's "factory-like" building was a large factor in Huron's organic curvilinear form. Huron was also known for its arch, under which cars could drive. In the summer of 2005, the school board decided to close the arch to auto traffic due to safety concerns despite opposition from the student body.

The two schools possessed distinct cultures and a rivalry soon sprang up. "River Rats", originally an epithet hurled at students of the new school by Pioneer students, quickly became a term of pride for Huron students. When offered a ballot for school mascot with two choices ("Huron Hawks" and "Huron Hammerheads", both names provided by the school board), Huron students conducted a write-in campaign for "Huron River Rats" which, after twice receiving a majority vote, was finally approved by the board.

In the 1990s Huron High School became overcrowded. By the turn of the millennium there were close to 2300 students in a building built for 1500. To fix the problem, the district began construction of the new Skyline High School, scheduled to be completed in 2008.^{[citation needed]}

The film Jumper had a scene filmed at Huron High School and neighboring Gallup Park in February 2007. One hundred students were chosen from Huron to be extras for the movie. The screenplay of Jumper was written by Huron High School graduate David S. Goyer and is scheduled for a February 2008 release.

The Huron Players are the official theatre group of Huron High School. They put on four shows every year: two full-length plays, one shortened play for performance at state competitions, and "Finale", an assortment of student-directed one-act plays. The group is sponsored by Bj Wallingford, who also directs many of the plays. Students may join the Huron Players at any time at no cost. They participate in various "crews" to create the final product of a show. The current crews are: Makeup, Props, Costumes, Lighting, Sound, House (ushers), Technical (set-building), as well as the positions of Assistant Stage Manager and Stage Manager who assist the director in rehearsals with the actors and actresses. The group is entirely composed of students, with the exception of the director. At each final performance, the entire show is put on and managed by only students. Student's participation in various "crews" and as actors earns them points, which, when exceeding a certain amount, earns that student a varsity letter.

In Spring 2004 the Huron Players performed the play "W;t", by Margaret Edson, at the Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association annual competition and earned first place in the state of Michigan. It is the first known time the Huron Players have earned such an honor The Huron Players went on to perform "W;t" at the Michigan Youth Arts Festival at Western Michigan University in May 2004.

The television screenwriter and producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a former Huron Player.

It is tradition for the outgoing seniors in the group to sign their names with paint on a wall or the ceiling in the scene shop.

Huron's film club is a group that meets after school to make movies. The club was started in 2005, and has since acquired high quality equipment (also used by film class students) through a technology grant. Their editing software is Final Cut Pro, the same program used to edit several TV shows, including Scrubs, for example. They also have a GL2 camera valued at about $2000, as well as half a dozen cheaper hand held cameras, tripods, wireless mics, boom mics, and more. Currently they are filming a feature length movie which, in addition to entering the script in several screen writing contests, will be submitted to Sundance and Slamdance.

Student Council is the student government body at Huron High School. Its foremost purpose is to serve the student body at Huron, which it does by maintaining constant contact and dialogue with the Huron administrators and PTSO, many of the student organizations here at Huron and of course, the students themselves. In addition to this, Student Council also engages in many activities to benefit our school and city community. These include blood banks, a can drive, and the famed Teacher Appreciation Breakfast. Student Council is also responsible for the creation and distribution of the student directory. It was previously coordinated by Joan Berman, who has retired since 2007.

• The Emery: the official school newspaper
• The Symposium: a student-published alternative newspaper. Authors of The Symposium do not identify themselves in the publication, and have been criticized by the school's official newspaper following accusations of libel.
• The Other Voice: an older alternative newspaper which was published during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
• Full Circle: the school's award-winning annually-published literary magazine. The publication contains student-submitted poetry, prose, artwork and photography.
• Enthymion: the school yearbook

• Warren Deck (1972): Principal Tuba, New York Philharmonic 1979-2003
• John Knoll (1980): Original creator of Adobe Photoshop, Visual Effects Guru
• David S. Goyer (1984): screenwriter, director and producer
• Zeke Jones (1985): wrestler
• James "Lights Out" Toney (1986): Boxer
• Javier Grillo-Marxuach (1987): screenwriter, producer
• Annette Salmeen (1992): 1996 Summer Olympics gold medalist (800m freestyle relay), Rhodes Scholar
• Jill Carroll (1995): journalist; 2006 kidnapping victim in Iraq
• Rick DiPietro (1999): NHL goaltender
• John Michael Liles (1999): NHL Defenseman - Colorado Avalanche
• Ryan Suter (2003): NHL Defenseman - Nashville Predators

• Pioneer High School

• Official Huron website