For schools of the same name, see Lincoln High School.

Lincoln High School
Address
1600 SW Salmon Street Portland, Oregon, Multnomah County, 97205  United States
Coordinates	45°31′08″N 122°41′18″W / 45.51889°N 122.68830°W / 45.51889; -122.68830Coordinates: 45°31′08″N 122°41′18″W / 45.51889°N 122.68830°W / 45.51889; -122.68830
Information
Type	Public
Opened	1869
School district	Portland Public Schools
Principal	Peyton Chapman[1][2]
Faculty	78[3]
Grades	9-12[2]
Number of students	1,404[2]
Color(s)	Red & White   [1]
Athletics conference	OSAA Portland Interscholastic League 6A-1[1]
Mascot	Cardinals[1]
Team name	Lincoln Cardinals
Newspaper	The Cardinal Times
Website	lincoln.pps.k12.or.us, [13]

Lincoln High School, known as Lincoln, is a public high school located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. It was established in 1869.

[edit] History

Lincoln High School logo

With an initial enrollment of 45 students, the school was established in 1869, making it one of the two oldest public high schools west of the Mississippi River (the other is San Francisco's Lowell High).^[4] It was originally named Portland High School; the name was changed to Lincoln High School in 1908.^{[citation needed]} The school once occupied the five-story building now housing Portland State University's Lincoln Hall.^[5]

In 2006, the school was one of seven in Oregon ranked among America's 1,200 best high schools (based on Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or Cambridge test scores) by Newsweek.^[6] In 2008, Lincoln was voted 2nd out of all 261 of the public high schools in all of the state of Oregon, having the School of Science and Technology from the Beaverton School District in 1st place.^[7]

Lincoln is a part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, and has averaged roughly 38 successful IB diploma candidates over each of the past three years from 2009.^[8]

It is currently administered by Portland Public Schools.^[9]

[edit] Academics

In 2008, 89% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma. Of 372 students, 330 graduated, 34 dropped out, 4 received a modified diploma, and 4 are still in high school.^[10][11]

Lincoln has 60 classroom teachers, 2.5 special instruction teachers, 4 educational assistants, 5 student counselors, an alternative education teacher, and a library/media specialist. Programs provide the highest quality-academic and extracurricular opportunities with a strong college preparatory program. Basic high school curriculum isenhanced with advanced course work in english, social sciences, foreign languages, mathematics and physical and life sciences.^[12]

In a July 2006 interview with The Oregonian, former Lincoln High Principal Peter Hamilton described it as "a classic college preparatory school."^[13]

[edit] Activities

Urban track and buildings at Lincoln

Lincoln also had a nationally renowned constitution team which has won twenty state championships and several national titles.^{[citation needed]}

The school newspaper, The Cardinal Times, was established in 1897 and is the oldest continually-published high school newspaper in the West.^[14]

In 2008, the senior prank received media coverage.^[15]

[edit] 2009 athletic coach scandals

A couple of Lincoln's athletic coaches have been in trouble in the year of 2009. On February 21, 2009, David Adelman, Lincoln's boys' basketball coach, has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. This was Adelman's second DUI charge since June 2005, a year before he became the school's basketball coach. 27-year old Adelman, son of veteran NBA coach Rick Adelman (former coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and current coach of the Houston Rockets), had to apologize to both his players and the Lincoln staff. However, principal Peyton Chapman decided to keep Adelman for the remainder of the basketball season, but the team lost the tournament.^[16]

Adelman isn't the only coach with getting into trouble with the school. In late-March of that same year, Michael Todd, Lincoln's baseball coach, has been in trouble with the school staff when he took three of his players, all aged 18, to a strip club while in San Francisco for a spring break baseball tournament. 25-year old Todd, about to be fired, decided to resign from being Lincoln's baseball coach and is no longer part of Portland Public Schools.^[17] The assistant coaches, who also went to the strip club, resigned as well. Neither the identities of the players or the assistant coaches were revealed.^[18]

At the beginning of the 2009-10 school year, yet another ahtletic coach got in trouble with the law. On August 29, the head football coach, 38-year old Chad Carlson, and the two assistant coaches, brothers Kyle (25) and Kacy Fairfax (24), were under arrest for interrupting a police investigation. When they were riding the TriMax to Rose Quarter stadium for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, a woman complained to police about a man (Kacy) touching her rear. While police were investigating, Carlson and Kyle Fairfax, while drunk with alcohol, kept interrupting the investigation. Kacy Fairfax was also drunk when he groped her. On September 17, Carlson and Kyle were pleaded guilty for interferring with the police. They were sentenced to eight hours of community service. However, prosecutors dismissed Kacy Fairfax's charges. After that, the coaches apologized to the Lincoln staff, and the team, telling them that they "let them down" and that they were going to resign as the football coaches from Lincoln.^[19]

[edit] Notable alumni

Old Lincoln circa 1920, now part of Portland State

• Marion Bauer, composer
• Mel Blanc, voice actor
• Ron East, NFL Football Player
• Rick Emerson, Oregon's Entertainer of the Year, three years running
• S. David Griggs, astronaut^[20]
• Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons^[21] (in fact, inside the building has a poster of every single character from The Simpsons, signed by Groening)^[22]
• Kathleen Hanna, Musician
• Peter Jacobsen, professional golfer
• Mickey Lolich, baseball player, 1968 World Series MVP Award winner
• Johnny Pesky, professional baseball player
• Mark Rothko, modern artist
• Richard Sanders, Olympic Wrestler
• Rebecca Schaeffer, Actress
• Elliott Smith, singer-songwriter
• Gary Snyder, poet

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Lincoln High School Alumni Association website