Fare-Thee-Well GHS
On Friday June 21st, 2013 Germantown High School closed its doors after 99 years and 143 graduating classes. Read what this means to some graduates and alumni.
Final goodbye for Germantown High School ABC Action News
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9146339
Germantown High School's final graduation was a celebration, not a funeral by thenotebook on Jun 20 2013 Posted in Latest news http://thenotebook.org/blog/136127/germantown-high-schools-final-graduation-was-celebration-not-funeral
On the scene for the last day of Germantown High School's life (1914-2013)
Newsworks.org
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/56389-on-the-scene-for-the-last-day-of-germantown-high-schools-life-1914-2013?link
The final month: Germantown High pride from a four-generation GHS family May 22, 2013 Newsworks.org
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/germantown-more-news/item/54991-the-final-month-germantown-high-pride-from-a-four-generation-ghs-family
The final month: Comcast founder Ralph J. Roberts 'proud to be associated' with Germantown High May 23, 2013 Newsworks.org
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/germantown-more-news/item/54833-the-final-month-comcast-founder-ralph-j-robertsproud-to-be-associated-with-germantown-high
The final month: Class of '62 grad says GHS teachers opened 'a new world' for him June 4, 2013 Newsworks.org
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/germantown-more-news/item/55159-the-final-month-ghs-class-of-62-grad-looks-back
The final month: Recent grad and standout football player rues GHS closing May 29, 2013 Newsworks.org
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/germantown-more-news/item/55061-the-final-month-recent-grad-and-standout-football-player-rues-ghs-closing
The final month: Scenes from Germantown High School's last-ever prom May 28, 2013 Newsworks.org
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/germantown-more-news/item/55237-the-final-month-scenes-from-germantown-high-schools-last-ever-prom-gallery
Epitaph for a High School
A grad's fond memories of Germantown High
LAST WEEK, on the night my high school was designated for extinction, I found myself humming my alma mater and a refrain from a Janis Joplin song: "Go on, take another little piece of my heart, now, baby."
Germantown High School will close in the spring, a year before its 100th birthday, a year before the 50th anniversary of my graduation. My stomach sank when I heard.
It wasn't a prestigious place - it wasn't Girls High or Central, the revered temples of academia. And the building seemed outdated even then. But it felt imposing and sturdy, built to sustain turbulence and last forever.
Everything I needed to know, I learned - not in kindergarten, as the saying goes - but at Germantown. Read More: