Montgomery Blair High School

Montgomery Blair High School is a Montgomery County, Maryland public school named for Montgomery Blair, a lawyer who represented Dred Scott in his United States Supreme Court case, and served as Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln. It was originally built at 313 East Wayne Avenue, in Silver Spring. It has since moved to University Boulevard. Some students and alumni affectionately refer to it as Blair, perhaps to distinguish it from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville.

Table of contents

1 History 1.1 Notable Alumni 2 Academics 3 External Links

History

When the school opened in 1925, it was called Takoma-Silver Spring High School. Within ten years, the school was over capacity, and in 1935 it was relocated to 313 Wayne Avenue and named for Montgomery Blair. In 1998, it relocated once more to a larger space on University Boulevard, eliminating one of the few remaining undeveloped tracts of land in that area of Silver Spring.

Notable Alumni

The following famous people have attended Blair: (this list is by no means complete)

• Goldie Hawn, actress
• Connie Chung, television journalist
• Ben Stein, actor, professor, game show host, and speechwriter for President Richard Nixon
• Carl Bernstein, journalist who, along with Bob Woodward, broke open the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post
• Kiran Chetry, journalist
• Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast
• David Vanterpool, National Basketball Association player.

Academics

Because of its Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program, and its Communication Arts Program, the school attracts students from across the entire county. The school is one of the few US high schools to have a .edu domain name, with its internet connection going live in the late 1980s.

External Links

Montgomery Blair High School - http://www.mbhs.edu/