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2 unusual facts about Peabody-Burns Junior/Senior High School


Peabody-Burns Junior/Senior High School

The Burns Grade School, which included a junior high, was closed in Burns, Kansas.

Peabody-Burns Junior/Senior High School is a public secondary school in Peabody, Kansas, USA operated by Unified School District 398, and serves students of grades 7 to 12.


1954 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship

The 1954 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was contested from June 30 to July 3 at Salem Country Club in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Albert Gordon

Albert Hamilton Gordon (1901-2009), head of investment bank Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Alfred Leland Crabb

While teaching at Peabody in the 1940s, the typist for his manuscripts was a student, future Playboy centerfold Bettie Page.

Atrisco Heritage Academy High School

Atrisco Heritage High School (AHAHS) or better known simply as Atrisco Heritage, is a public senior high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, located the city's West Mesa.

Betsy von Furstenberg

Betsy von Furstenberg has appeared on Broadway in Second Threshold (1951), Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1953), The Chalk Garden and Child of Fortune (1956), Nature's Way (1957), The Making of Moo (1958), Step on a Crack (1962), The Frog Pond (1965), The Paisley Convertible (1967), Avanti! (1968), The Gingerbread Lady (1970), and Does Anybody Here Do the Peabody? (1976).

Black Mesa

Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy, the controversy surrounding a Peabody Coal mine in the Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona)

Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School

The school also participates in "The Cappies", the Critics and Awards Program for High School Students as well as the ComedySportz High School League.

Bridgewater High School

West Bridgewater Middle-Senior High School in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States

Cape Cod Mall

The other malls to incorporate a second Macy's (following the closure of its Filene's (or Lord & Taylor) store) is Fox Run Mall in Newington, New Hampshire and Northshore Mall in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Chase County Junior/Senior High School

In 2010, the middle school building was closed in Strong City and the middle school moved to the existing high school building in Cottonwood Falls, thus renaming it.

Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award

Alarmed at the disturbing number of nurses leaving the profession within their first few years in practice, Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant to Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning director David Hoffman to create a film for nurses and nursing students that would encourage, inspire and instruct.

Covington High School

Holmes Junior/Senior High School (Covington, Kentucky), originally Covington Central High

D'Evelyn Junior/Senior High School

On September 23, 2012, the school was visited by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during his campaign.

Daniel B. Wallace

A Scripture Index to Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary of the Greek Testament in the reprint of Moulton and Milligan (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1997).

David Grandis

After receiving a B.M. in Musicology in France, he completed a M.M. in orchestral conducting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Donald Schleicher and a G.P.D. at the Peabody Conservatory with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar.

East Juniata Junior/Senior High School

The school is located along Route 35 in Fayette Township and serves over 534 students (male 298, 236 females) in grades 7-12 from the eastern reaches of Juniata County (excluding Greenwood Township).

Eddie Peabody

Capitalizing on this trend, Peabody recorded several albums for Dot Records and performed at the supper clubs which were popular at the time.

Frannie Peabody

She helped establish The AIDS Project, which became Maine's largest AIDS service organization, and co-founded the Peabody House assisted living facility.

G. A. R. Memorial Junior/Senior High School

David Bohm - Quantum physicist who was involved in the Manhattan Project.

God Bless Us

"God Bless Us" is a Christmas song written by the first American Idol songwriting winners Scott Krippayne and Jeff Peabody, who wrote This Is My Now for Jordin Sparks.

Guy Tillim

Tillim has been awarded the first Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

Holland, New York

The original building on Canada Street is currently the Holland Junior/Senior High School

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry

From 1881 until his death he was agent for the Peabody and Slater Funds to aide schools in the South and was instrumental in the founding of the Southern Education Board.

John R. French

In 1847, while at the New Hampshire Statesman, French published a volume of writings by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers titled, A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers.

Liberty Bell Junior-Senior High School

The school is part of the Methow Valley School District and is located between Twisp and Winthrop.

Macarthur Coal

In the first half of 2010, Macarthur Coal made an offer for Gloucester Coal which was not successful; New Hope and Peabody made offers for Macarthur Coal which were also rejected.

Mapletown Junior/Senior High School

Mapletown Junior/Senior High School is a public Junior/Senior High School, located near Greensboro, Pennsylvania (65 miles south of Pittsburgh) It is the sole secondary facility of the Southeastern Greene School District.

Massachusetts Route 35

Route 35 is a Massachusetts State Route running through the towns of Danvers and Peabody in northeastern Massachusetts.

Mogollon culture

Eight decades of subsequent research conducted by teams based out of the Field Museum of Natural History, the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona, the Amerind Foundation, the Mimbres Foundation, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Harvard University, have confirmed Haury's initial findings.

Peabody Education Fund

Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.

Penns Manor Area Junior/Senior High School

The campus is located between the communities at the junction/multiplex of Routes 403, 553, and 580.

Phoenix Christian Junior/Senior High School

Notable alumni include NFL quarterback Tim Rattay; Vonda Kay Van Dyke, 1965 Miss America; Steve Green, a gospel singer, University of Wyoming football letterman Jeff Smith, Anthony Stannard, and Sean Bowman, University of Arizona football letterman Aaron Huisman, Washington State University football letterman Jimmy Wilson, and Boise State University football letterman Kyle Gingg.

Pop Hollinger

In 1914, Hollinger and his family moved to Concordia, Kansas, to accept the position of teacher of applied sciences at Concordia Junior-Senior High School.

Rotaries in Massachusetts

Dawes Island Park Massachusetts Avenue (Massachusetts Route 2A) Peabody, and Garden Streets in Harvard Square, in an elongated configuration due to portal into Harvard Square Bus Tunnel

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

In the 1930s after the extinguishing of the museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Lothrop returned to the Peabody Museum staff as field director of the Sitio Conte in Central Panama.

Society to Encourage Studies at Home

Among those involved as teachers were: Ellen Swallow Richards (science), Vida Dutton Scudder (English), Lucretia Crocker (science), Katherine Peabody Loring (history), Alice James (history), Lucy Elliot Keeler (history), Florence Trail (ancient history) and Elizabeth Thorndike Thornton (history).

The Bashful Bachelor

Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse.

Tri-County Conference

Tri-County Conference (Southern Indiana), a former conference in Southeast Indiana whose schools largely consolidated into Jennings County High School, Madison Consolidated High School, and South Ripley Junior/Senior High School during the 1960s.

Triton Junior–Senior High School

The Triton School Corporation, formed in 1963 to consolidate the schools of Bourbon, Etna Green, and Tippecanoe, Indiana, is located in east central Marshall County, Indiana.

Wampus cat

Clark Fork Junior/Senior High School, Clark Fork, Idaho - seen as a yellow cougar with a spiked ball on its tail.

Wayback

WABAC machine (pronounced Wayback), a fictional machine from Peabody's Improbable History, an ongoing feature of the cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

Will Hare

Hare's other distinctive film credits include Black Oak Conspiracy (1977), The Electric Horseman (1979), Eyes of Fire (1983), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), The Aviator (1985) he also had a small appearance in the 1985 film, Back to the Future as Old Man Peabody.

William Bourne Oliver Peabody

Peabody was born in Exeter, New Hampshire to Judge Oliver Peabody, graduated from Harvard College in 1816, and subsequently served as an assistant instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1817.

Peabody wrote several biographies for Sparks's Library of American Biography, namely, those of David Brainerd, Cotton Mather, James Oglethorpe, and Alexander Wilson.

WMFP

WMFP maintains studio facilities located on Lakeland Park Drive in Peabody, and its transmitter (which is shared with radio station FM-128) is located in Needham.


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