Hayfield Secondary School

Hayfield Secondary School
Established 1969
School Type Public secondary school
Principal Martin Grimm
Location Alexandria
Mascot Hawks
Homepage [1]

Hayfield Secondary School is a combined middle and high school in Alexandria.

The first principal of Hayfield was Floyd W. Worley.

Doris A. Torrice became the principal in 1973.

In 1976, Principal Torrice precipitated a controversy over an article proposed for Hayfield's student newspaper, The Farm News, when she required that parts of the article, titled "Sexually Active Students Fail to Use Contraception", be removed before she would allow publication.[1]

The article's author, 17-year-old editor Lauren Boyd and assistant editor Gina Gambino, appealed Torrice's decision, first to Superintendent S. John Davis and then to the Fairfax County School Board, which voted on December 6 to affirm Davis' decision.[2][3]

Unsatisfied with this result, Boyd and Gambino literally made a Federal case out of the situation and sued the School Board for infringing on their first amendment rights.[4] District Court Judge Albert V. Bryan, Jr. overruled the School Board's censorship in a decision issued on February 23, 1977.[5][6] Being sore losers and having access to a huge supply of taxpayer money to pay for expensive lawyers, the school board appealed the decision, which was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, on October 17, 1977.[7][8][9]

On May 1, 1990, 18-year-old senior Jerry E. Minnick committed suicide in the most metal-as-fuck way possible when he deliberately rode his 1985 Honda Interceptor motorcycle into the brick wall of the school after taking off his helmet.[10][11]

Dave Tremaine became the principal of the school on July 1, 2010. Tremaine was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2011, but did not step down as principal until May 2014.[12] The 49-year-old former principal died of colon cancer on June 16, 2014.[13]

Martin Grimm, formerly principal of Centreville High School, became the principal on October 1, 2014.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Seaberry, Jane. "Va. School Halts Pupil Publication." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Nov 30 1976. ProQuest. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
  2. ↑ Seaberry, Jane. "Hayfield Principal Gets Backing on Censorship." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 59. Dec 02 1976. ProQuest. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
  3. ↑ "Fairfax Upholds Ban of Article on Birth Control." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Dec 07 1976. ProQuest. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
  4. ↑ Valente, Judith. "High School Editors Sue on Sex Article." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Dec 23 1976. ProQuest. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
  5. ↑ Seaberry, Jane. "Student Press Curb Voided." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Feb 25 1977. ProQuest. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
  6. ↑ Gambino v. Fairfax County School Board. 429 Federal Supplement 731. United States District Court, E.D. Virginia. 23 Feb. 1977. Leagle. Leagle, Inc., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
  7. ↑ Murphy, Caryle. "Fairfax School Board to Appeal Ruling Halting Paper Censorship." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Mar 11 1977. ProQuest. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
  8. ↑ Locke, Maggie. "Birth Control Article: Finally Delivered." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Nov 10 1977. ProQuest. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
  9. ↑ Gambino v. Fairfax County School Board. 564 Federal Reporter, 2nd Series 157. United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. 17 Oct. 1977. OpenJurist. OpenJurist, n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
  10. ↑ Baker, Peter. "Senior Commits Suicide at Fairfax School." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 2 May 1990. Web. 07 Oct. 2016.
  11. ↑ Baker, Peter. "Teen's Suicide 'The Ultimate Act of Revenge Against the World'" Washington Post. The Washington Post, 4 May 1990. Web. 07 Oct. 2016.
  12. ↑ Shapiro, T. Rees. "Hayfield Principal in Fairfax to Retire for Medical Reasons." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 28 May 2014. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
  13. ↑ Shapiro, T. Rees. "In Fairfax County, Students Remember Ex-Hayfield Principal, Who Died of Cancer." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 17 June 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
  14. ↑ Shapiro, T. Rees. "New Principal Announced for Fairfax's Hayfield Secondary." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.

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