The first year BHS opened, there were a total of 24 students, with only 3 of them being seniors who graduated in the 1928/29 class. The first 4-year class (1931/32) had 10 students but history indicates only 8 of them graduated because the others were expelled for going on strike when there was a change of Superintendent!  We believe there is only one of these 8 graduates surviving. 

There was a girl's soccer team in the 1929/30 season; volleyball was organized during the class of 1931/32 (only seniors were allowed to participate!) and the following year the track team was organized. Baseball and football didn't come for many more years.

Would you like information on some aspect of BHS? Let us know and we'll try to get the answers for you! If you have any memorabilia, the Brentwood Historical Society would be delighted to have it.

BHS CHEERLEADERS 

Basketball season 1940 ........ The original group of cheerleaders was actually started by the English teacher and consisted of three girls from the 1941 graduating class. They were known as the "Pep Squad". No money was available for costumes, so the girls wore their normal school attire consisting of pleated, short (for those days) skirts, long sweaters and saddle shoes. They were Helen Fieser Anderson, Doris Faye Moreau Papin and Norma Hodges Murphy.

Today the number of cheerleaders varies. There were eleven this past year. They have eye-catching costumes in school colors of purple and gold and hold regular practices. We've tried to obtain facts but can only surmise the current cheerleading program came with football when it was included in Brentwood's itinerary in the 1950's.

Of the three original cheerleaders, Doris Faye is deceased, Helen says all she remembers about being a cheerleader is "a lot of jumping around", and Norma has donated her cheerleader letter to the Brentwood Historical Society.