Ayer Shirley Regional High School is a high school located in
Ayer, Massachusetts
Ayer () is a New England town, town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Originally part of Groton, Massachusetts, Groton, it was incorporated February 14, 1871, and became a major commercial railroa ...
. The school colors are maroon and white, and the mascot is the Panther. The student body contains about 350 students in 9th-12th grade.
School Support
The school built the Laura S. Leavitt Auditorium. It was named after Ms. Leavitt, who was a Latin teacher.
Alumni
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Rita Briggs
Rita Briggs '' Maude"' (March 27, 1929 – September 6, 1994) was an American female baseball catcher who played from through for seven different teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 120 lb., Briggs ba ...
, professional baseball player
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Jamie Morris
James Walter Morris (born June 6, 1965) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and a record-setting running back in college for the University of Michigan Wolverine ...
, American football player
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Joe Morris, American football player
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Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher i ...
(1906), mathematician
References
An American EducationIn a section called: "Most wondrous, in my life, was the auditorium".
External links
Ayer Shirley Regional High School websiteAyer Shirley Regional School District website
Schools in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Public high schools in Massachusetts
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