Benjamin Bosse High School
History
The school was initially financed by Benjamin Bosse , who was the mayor of Evansville from 1914 to 1922. Construction began on the school in 1922 and opened for its first pupils in 1924, serving what was then the east side of Evansville.
Bosse's boys basketball team won the state championship in 1944 the first area team to do so. The school won again in 1945 and 1962. Bosse's band marched in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida on New Year's Eve in 1970-1971 and also played in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany .
Notable alumni
Marty Amsler , former National Football League defensive end
Bruce Blackburn (Class of 1956), graphic designer who made the official logos for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Bicentennial star.
Pete Fox , Major League Baseball player from 1933 to 1945.
Roy Halston Frowick , fashion designer
Arad McCutchan , Hall of Fame basketball coach, University of Evansville
Michael Michele , actress, best known for ER
Talitha Washington , mathematician and STEM education activist at Howard University
Roger H. Zion , U.S. congressman for Indiana (1967–1975)
References
1 2 3 "Benjamin Bosse High School" . National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 21, 2025 .
↑ "Marty, Amsler" . Indiana football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010 .
↑ www.ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/sid_5297_1956_0042?queryId%5B%5D=b5e7ee3713676430f237b9bf0c8dae3f&queryId%5B%5D=b5e7ee3713676430f237b9bf0c8dae3f&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XqL421&pId=473775802&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults . Retrieved October 9, 2026 .
↑ "Pete Fox Statistics" . baseball-reference.com.
↑ "Famous fashion designers from Indiana" . Hoosier History Live . Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
↑ "The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame - Hall of Famers" . Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
↑ Lipton, Michael A. (April 10, 2000). "All the Right Moves" . People . Archived from the original on February 8, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
↑ "Talitha Washington at Howard University until Fall 2012" . AceNotes Today . University of Evansville . May 17, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
↑ "Roger Zion Obituary, Evansville, IN" . Evansville Courier & Press . September 27, 2019. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
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