A. Crawford Mosley High School

A. Crawford Mosley High School is a 9-12 educational institution located in Lynn Haven, Florida. Mosley was built in 1972 and current enrollment is roughly 2,100 students. There are 120 classroom-based faculty members and Bill Husfelt is the principal. The school colors are Green, Orange and White and the mascots are "Rocky" and "Roxy", both dolphins.

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History

Namesake

Mr. Crawford Mosley was a Panama City resident since 1915. He served as an assistant principal, athletic coach and teacher at Panama Grammar School. In addition to these duties, Mr. Mosley also served as a member of the Bay County School Board for twenty continuous years beginning in 1955 and ending in 1975.

History since 1974

In March 1974, Mosley students moved into their new high school almost six months past the originally scheduled occupancy date. These students had been attending double sessions at Bay High School since the 1973-74 school year began in the fall.

Fight Song

"Rocky" was adopted as the school's fight song during the school's 1979 football season; during only its seventh year, the Mosley Dolphins were able to take down some of the region's toughest teams to finish 5-5. The team was compared to the movie character Rocky Balboa, and the movie's theme song was adapted to a march style. The school mascot, a bottle-nosed dolphin, was named Rocky in 2002 to be in accord with the fight song. The song is still played at all football games.

Alma Mater

The Alma Mater was written by former Band Director Bill Thompson when the school opened.

::"Our Alma Mater, Mosley High,"

::"We honor you today."

::"Thy teachings and thy standards"

::"Serve to guide us day by day."

::"Our friendships and our memories:"

::"These things shall never die."

::"We lift our banner to the sky"

::"As we honor A.C. Mosley High!"

Mosley Today

Mosley High School is the largest high school in Bay County, Florida. Mosley was the largest school north of Orlando in Florida when there were only three high schools in the Panama City-Lynn Haven, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area until the opening of Arnold High School on Panama City Beach, Florida in 2000 and the Deane Bozeman Learning Center in the Sand Hills area of North Bay County, Florida in 2002.

While enrollment before the build was 2,400, today enrollment stands at 2,100 and Bill Husfelt is the principal.

Mosley was the first and only of the five high schools in Bay County to receive the "A" ranking from the Florida Department of Education. Mosley attained this success in the 2002-03, 2004-05 and 2005-06 school years. Mosley scored a "B" in 2003-04 and 2006-07.

Mosley currently draws its students from the neighborhoods in Lynn Haven, Florida, northern Panama City and parts of unincorporated Bay County including the College Point area extending down Highway 390 to its junction with U.S. Highway 231 and upward to Star Ave. as well as parts of State Road 77 across the Bailey Bridge between Lynn Haven, Florida and Southport, Florida. [ [http://www.bay.k12.fl.us/misweb/DistrictSchoolZoningSearch/tabid/92/Default.aspx District School Zoning Search ] ]

Demographics

According to statistical information available in 2004, Mosley had an 18:1 student to teacher ratio with 120 classroom teachers on faculty and roughly 2,100 students. The same statistics reported that 14% of Mosley students qualify for free lunches under a Florida program to support low-income families, less than the average rate of 45% in Florida schools.

The school has an even gender ratio, with 50% of the population being male and the remaining 50% being female. The school student body is 92% white American, 5% African-American, 2% Hispanic American, 1% Native American and 1% other. [ [http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/16857 / - Public School Profile ] ]

MAPPS

The Mosley Advanced Placement Program for Success, or MAPPS, is a magnet program which evolved from a small math and science oriented college preparatory program in 1996, called MACSM (Mosley Academy for Careers in Science & Math). MAPPS was founded in order to organize the Advanced Placement college preparatory courses in a way to facilitate maximum growth for student achievement at Mosley. Today, 964 students at Mosley are in the MAPPS program. [ Perfect Score: Mosley Senior Excels in Academics, Published by the Panama City News Herald on Monday October 8, 2007 ]

The MAPPS office is located in the front of the school and offers college-preparatory counseling to all students and parents at Mosley High School. [ MAPPS catalog published 2007 ] Program coordinator Ted Czupryk and two MAPPS counselors are available by appointment or walk-in.

MAPPS students are required to follow a tracking system for one of the pre-majors. The pre-majors are Pre-Medicine, Pre-Law, Pre-Liberal Arts and Pre-Sciences. These tracks allow students to complete most first year requirements at institutions of higher learning. The MAPPS staff monitors students success in these courses and meets with students and parents alike to select additional and appropriate courses to move students to their college choice.

Before entering Advanced Placement courses, students generally go through a rigorous curriculum of preliminary courses during the freshman year. Students are required to complete 75 community service hours over their four years at Mosley, and most are also heavily involved in campus extracurricular activities.

Currently, Mosley offers Advanced Placement courses for the following subjects:

* AP English Language and Composition
* AP English Literature and Composition
* AP French Language
* AP Spanish Language
* AP Environmental Science
* AP Physics B
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* AP Biology
* AP Chemistry
* AP Calculus (AB and BC)
* AP Statistics
* AP Computer Science
* AP European History
* AP Psychology
* AP U.S. History
* AP Microeconomics
* AP Macroeconomics
* AP Comparative Government and Politics
* AP United States Government and Politics
* AP U.S. Government and Politics
* AP Art History
* AP Studio Art
* AP Music Theory

While many MAPPS students who successfully complete the program take advantage of the Florida Bright Futures program (97% receive the scholorship) to continue their educations at Gulf Coast Community College, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, or University of Florida, a number of students have pursued education out of state at prestigious private institutions such as Harvard University, Baylor University, Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, MIT, and West Point. [MAPPS Office Information Guide]

Academic Academies

The Culinary Academy

This academy prepares students for employment or advanced training in the food service industry through hands-on skill development and practical job-related experience.

Public Service Academy

This academy prepares students for careers that serve the general public in firefighting, law enforcement, and education.

S.M.A.R.T Academy (Sports Management and Recreation Training Academy)

This academy provides qualified students the education, skill development and hands-on experience needed to prepare them for successful career opportunities within the sports management industry.

Dolphin Television (DTV)

This academy provides students with the skills and education needed to pursue a career in television production and digital video editing. It provides hands on experience for those selected to be a part of its prestigious staff in the form of a morning show informing the school of upcoming events and meetings as well as a strictly student produced afternoon show that serves the same purpose of enlightening the student body only through entertainment and humor. Dolphin Television is extremely highly regarded among student produced broadcasts across the nation and in 2007 was named the #1 High School Broadcast in the United States by Channel One News, an NBC affiliated news program based out of New York. DTV and its staff are all members of the Florida Scholastic Press Assosiation [ [http://www.bayschools.com/mhs/ Welcome to Mosley High School ] ]

Extracurriculars

ports

Football

The A. Crawford Mosley High School football team hosts all of its games at Tommy Oliver Memorial stadium (Capacity 8,800) in downtown Panama City, Florida. They share the stadium with both Bay High School and Rutherford High School.

Mosley first fielded a football team in 1973 and first had a winning season in 1980, going 10-1 and losing to eventual state champion J. M. Tate High School from the Pensacola Metropolitan Area 34-7. Mosley finished 13-1 in 1981, losing to Vero Beach High School 10-7 in the 1981 FHSAA 4A State Championship game held in Vero Beach, Florida. The Dolphins went 9-2 in 1982 losing to eventual state champion Pensacola Woodham.

Mosley enjoyed a string of 8-2 records until the 1-9 season of 1985 when Mosley's lone win came in 6 overtimes over winless cross-town rival Rutherford High School 12-6. Mosley turned the corner the next season going 9-1 but failing to go to the playoffs because at the time, the FHSAA only had playoffs which featured district champions.

Mosley lost to Lake Brantley High School of the Orlando Area in the 1993 state playoffs second round 24-23 in double overtime after defeating Columbia High School of Lake City, FL the previous week. The long string of football success came to a slow halt the next season as Mosley went 5-5 and eventually forfeited two games (to Enterprise High School and Leon High School).

During the mid to late 1990s, Mosley slowly rebuilt going 1-8 in 1995 by defeating Choctaw High School 17-14 on a last second field goal in the season closer and 1-9 in 1996 by defeating Pensacola Washington 38-35 in overtime.

Mosley went 4-6 in 1997, 6-5 in 1998 but then 4-6 again in 1999 when an inadvertent whistle vs. Rutherford hurt their play-off chances, a mistake by the official on a blocked field goal, he thought is was an extra-point which would have blown the the play dead, unfortunately it was a Field Goal attempt. More important, it was late in the 3rd Quarter, with the score 13-7 against long time cross town rival, Rutherford, when the ball was ran back 85 yards for the Touchdown making it 20-7 a sure Mosley win. However, the big play that never happened was taken back and the the down re-played, Rutherford made the field goal on the second making what should have been 7 points for Mosley, 3 for Rutherford, a 10 point swing that was an official's error. The game was lost in overtime. A win would have sent the Dolphin's to the play-offs.

With the new millennium, Mosley returned to the playoffs again but lost to the St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets, marking a three-year streak where Mosley would lose in the first round. In 2001 and 2002, Mosley's season was ended in the first round by Mainland High School of Daytona Beach, Florida.

Finally in 2005 and 2006, Mosley broke the streak and went further into the playoffs. Mosley lost to Pace High School both years in the playoffs but not until the second and third round each year respectively. [ Mosley High School Football History ]

2008 Football Schedule

Baseball

The Mosley High School baseball field is named after longtime coach Harry Frank. The Baseball team won the 2002 FHSAA 5A State Championship in Tampa, FL.

Musical Ensembles

Chorus

Members of Mosley's Chorus perform at many official school functions throughout the year including Graduation, Fantasia, and the Calendar Girl Competition.

The Sound of the Southland Band

The "Sound of the Southland" is under the direction of Jamie Birdwell. Birdwell is an alumnus of Troy University and has held previous Band Director positions before coming to Mosley. The band program of Mosley is comprised of the "Sound of the Southland" marching band, the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Stage One Advanced Jazz Band, Jazz Band II, Firstmates Dance Line, and Color Guard. It is the largest band program in Bay County. The band consistently received the highest ratings and accolades from the local, district, state, and national levels. The "Sound of the Southland" travels with the Mosley football team to all away games as well as playoff games and fields a half-time show during all games throughout the year. The band has received straight superior ratings from the Florida Bandmasters Association 31 of the last 35 years. The marching band has performed at the Boscov's Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day parade four times. One of the major highlights for the band came in 2004, when it played for President George W. Bush. In 2005 the Wind Symphony placed first at the Music in the Parks, St. Louis, and in 2006 placed first at Disney's Magic Music Days. The Wind Symphony was invited to perform at the Southeastern United States Concert and Honors Band Clinc at Troy University as well as the Disney Honors in 2007. The band was invited to perform in the Atlanta National Adjudicator's International in 2008 where it earned straight superior ratings, best brass, best soloist, and was named Honor Group. Since 1973, Mosley is the only band in Bay County to attend the Florida Bandmasters Associations State Music Performance Assessment. In 2008, the band was nominated by the John Philip Sousa Foundation for the Sudler Flag of Honor. No band in Bay County has ever received the Sudler Flag.

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