Hazard High School

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name = Hazard High School


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location = 157 Bulldog Lane
Hazard, Kentucky 41701
district = Hazard Independent Schools
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superintendent = Sandra Johnsoncite web |url=http://www.hazard.kyschools.us/hhs/ |title=Hazard High School website |publisher=Hazard High School |accessdate=2008-01-11]
principal = Donald Mobelini
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Hazard High School is a public high school located in Hazard, Kentucky. The school serves about 300 students in grades 9-12 in the Hazard Independent Schools.

Hazard High School's boys' basketball team, the Bulldogs, won state titles in 1932, 1955, and 2004. [Mike Fields. "Hazard regaining its winning ways". "Lexington Herald Leader". February 22, 1985. C4.] [Jody Demling. "With help from its 'ghosts,' Hazard wins crown". "Lexington Herald Leader". February 9, 2004. 4E.] Alumni Johnny Cox and Sam Smith played in the NBA and ABA, respectively. [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/coxjo01.html Johnny Cox] . Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved on January 10, 2008.] [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smithsa01.html Sam Smith] . Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved on January 10, 2008.] The school band was one of ten selected to play at George H. W. Bush's presidential inauguration in 1988. [Dick Burdette. "Lexington Herald Leader". December 27, 1988. B1.]

The school received national ["Town with racist past has its first black homecoming queen". "Greensboro News & Record". October 30, 1995. A2.] attention in 1995 when it elected senior Valerie Cornett as its first African American homecoming queen. The town of Hazard had been infamous as the site of Kentucky's last public lynching, which took place in 1934. Cornett told reporters, "The young generation is trying to move forward. Here it's like everyone's equal." "Race isn't an issue in small Kentucky town". Associated Press. "Deseret News". November 2, 1995. A10.] It had only been in 1956 and only then because of national legal rulings that Hazard High ceased to be an all-white school. [ [http://liberty-high-school.org/frame_history.html Liberty High school history] accessed 11 January, 2008]

For a time in the 1990s, principal Donald Pratt defied US Supreme Court rulings by leading the school in the Lord's Prayer each morning over the intercom. ["In defiance of rulings, prayer thrives in some Ky. schools". Associated Press. "Lexington Herald-Leader". November 24, 1995. B4.] In December 1995, however, school officials replaced the prayer with a moment of silence, fearing legal repercussions after the morning prayer received attention in newspaper articles. ["Moment of silence replaces school prayer". "Lexington Herald-Leader". December 9, 1995. C3.]

Notable alumni

*Johnny Cox, NBA basketball player
*Daniel Mongiardo, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky [cite news |title=Daniel Mongiardo Inaugural Address Frankfort, KY December 11, 2007 2 p.m. |publisher=State of Kentucky |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-01-11]
*Sam Smith, ABA basketball player

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