Alma Mater: The Orange and the Black
This is the Chaffey High School chorus under the direction of Nate Brown, CHS Music Director, singing the alma mater, The Orange and the Black.
This is the Chaffey High School chorus under the direction of Nate Brown, CHS Music Director, singing the alma mater, The Orange and the Black.
After more than forty years of teaching, educating, and mentoring, Dave Masterson, Chaffey High School Department Chair for the Visual and Performing Arts, retired on May 22, 2020. Over the course of 25 seasons, Masterson produced 45 theatrical shows and played to over 300,000 people – a milestone for any theatre and especially for a high school.
After more than forty years of teaching, educating, and mentoring, Dave Masterson, Chaffey High School Department Chair for the Visual and Performing Arts, retired on May 22, 2020. Dave began his career in 1984 teaching English and Dramatic Arts at Ontario High School.
Chaffey High School 2020 graduating senior, Zohary Gonzalez, has won the Rapattoni Drama Scholarship; the awardee will receive a $1,500-dollar scholarship for Outstanding Performance and Dedication in Chaffey High School Theatre. Zohary was selected for this recognition due to her scholarship, theatrical talent, commitment and dedication to the productions at Chaffey High School.
In May 2018, the Theater Arts Department performed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The department includes not only performers, but students learning stagecraft. Here are some photos of Oklahoma! sets being built in Merton E. Hill Auditorium in Tower Hall. Hill Auditorium is being used for performances while Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium is closed for renovation.
Sunday, May 20, 2018 was a day of celebration for the Class of 2018 and CHSAA as the graduating class participated in its Baccalaureate Service. CHSAA 2018 Tiger of the Year Phyllis White Bogard ’57 was one of the speakers, and she greeted students at an informal reception immediately following Baccalaureate.
In 35th annual Academic Decathlon, the Chaffey High School 2018 Academic Decathlon team won its 7th consecutive San Bernardino County championship and its 9th county championship in ten years.
Measure P, passed in 2012 by voters, authorized $848 million in general obligation bonds to be used for all campuses in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. Specifically, the funds were to be spent in several areas:
On classrooms and buildings for renovation, expansion and upgrade, For campus security, including earthquake retrofitting and upgrading instructional technology, Campus telecommunications and classroom technology, Upgrading libraries and Other health and safety upgrades.
My story, however, is not about the gaps or the falls; it is about the ramps that helped me make amazing and ultimately successful leaps in my personal and professional life. I am so proud to be the Principal of Chaffey High School, but the truth is, I did not get here without help.
CHS has a new principal — its 18th in the school’s 107-year history and the third woman in the position. Before being named principal, Christina Martinez