Houses
The school follows a house system, a system commonly used in public schools. The six houses are named after previous principals or people who have played an important part in the formation of the school. Each house is represented by a color which matches the first letter of the house.
- Richard - red
- Oldham - orange
- Buttrick - blue
- Toussaint - turquoise
- Pfeiffer - purple
- Weston - white
- Andersen - auburn
Messrs. Oldham was the founder of the school and Richard the third principal. Mr. Weston, the principal during the inter-war years was instrumental in pulling the school out of financial straits and saving it from dissolution. His memory was preserved in Weston House, the last house to be created, and in Weston Day, an annual sports holiday devoted to competitions in swimming and athletic pursuits. Pfeiffer House was named after an American contributor who helped turn around the schools fortune during Mr. Weston's tenure.
Read more about this topic: Baldwin Boys High School
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.