Finney High School

Jared W. Finney High School was a public comprehensive high school in northeastern Detroit, Michigan, United States. Located at 17200 Southampton, it was a part of Detroit Public Schools, and was in proximity to the Grosse Pointes.[1]

History

The school first opened as an elementary school in 1928.[2][3][4][5] It became a high school in 1962.[6][7]

Finney received a $2.5 million bond investment prior to its closure in 2009.[2] The original plan was to rebuild the school in a new $75 million campus on the same site shared with McNair Pre-K-8, but those plans changed.[8] In 2012, Finney and Crockett High School merged into East English Village Preparatory Academy,[2] which was built on the former site of Finney.[1]

The school was named after Detroiter Jared Warner Finney, a United States Commissioner and U.S. Attorney, in honor of his wide-ranging contributions to the City of Detroit. He was one of two sole members of the first graduating class of Detroit High School in 1861. Jared's father, Seymour Finney, was a prominent conductor on Detroit's underground railroad and owned "Finney's Barn," near Griswold and State streets, where the family hid former slaves and helped ferry them to freedom in Canada.[9]

Notable alumni

• Gus Calandrino,[10] Mayor, City of Utica, MI
• Tony Elliott,[11] professional football player

Maria Ewing

• Maria Ewing,[12] opera singer
• Jermaine Jackson,[1] basketball player

References

1. Foster, Terry. "Detroit King pulls out another tough one over East English Village Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine" (archive). Detroit News. September 7, 2013. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
2. "Some DPS buildings no longer in use after major investments" (archive). Detroit Free Press. October 7, 2013. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
3. "Detroit Schools 1842-2015 - Public". Google Docs. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
4. "Bankrupt and Shrinking, Detroit Selling 79 Abandoned Schools". Curbed Detroit. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
5. "hotfudgedetroit.com • View topic - Scrappers in Action". hotfudgedetroit.com. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
6. "Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan on February 1, 1975 · Page 10". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
7. "Detroit Finney Highlanders All-time Michigan high school football/basketball conference records". michigan-football.com. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
8. Schultz, Marisa. "DPS parents feeling betrayed Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine" (archive). The Detroit News. March 20, 2010. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
9. Successful Men of Michigan: A Compilation of Useful Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men. SI. U. Collins. 1914.
10. Mitch Hotts (November 3, 2020). "Calandrino chosen as Utica's next mayor".
11. "Tony F. Elliott". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
12. "68 Cairngorm "Maria Louise Ewing" (Finney Jr. Sr. High School, Detroit)". Ancestry.com. Generations Network. 1968. p. 30. Retrieved August 25, 2020.

External links

• Finney High School Archived 2015-08-07 at the Wayback Machine - notice of closing
• Finney High School (archive)

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