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To: Bill who wrote (87552)11/21/2004 10:24:45 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (1) of 793592
 
(BTW, Roxbury Latin is a private school across from St. T's. The nation's oldest school is Boston Latin, located near Fenway park.)

You are right.

Boston Latin, founded 1635, is the oldest public school.
Roxbury Latin, founded 1645, is the oldest private school.
Or at least they both claim those titles. Perhaps they mean oldest continuous.
I was on both campuses in the 50s.

I don't know anything about Hyde Park High.

I have seen the new W Rox HS (not so new anymore I guess). It is just a bit down the VFW Parkway from the big VA Nerve Trauma Center. I was seen as a patient there after a vertebrae fracture.

There were two more options neither of us mentioned.
Boston English...located across the street from Boston Latin.
Mechanix Arts High School which was located within what is now the Prudential Center complex. It became Boston Technical HS and moved to Warren/Townsend St. in Roxbury.

I went to Mechanix and was in the first graduating class from the new Tech in 1961. I heard it has since closed.
Likely due to too much history from my classmates.

Left Boston immediately to work and hunt with two uncles in the Colorado Mountains. Joined the Army the next year. Never went back to beantown to live. I started my life in Blackwell and Tuttle OK. Could not shake off the country and never became a well-adapted city boy. LOL
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