Peoria High School is a public high school in Peoria, Illinois. Peoria High School was established in 1856 and is the second oldest continually operating high school west of the Allegheny Mountains after Evansville Central High School in Indiana. Peoria High is located at 1615 N. North Street and moved to this location in 1916. Peoria High School is commonly referred to as "Central" to distinguish it from Richwoods and Manual, and it is centrally located in Peoria. Peoria is the only city in the Peoria metro area with multiple high schools. The school had a 150th all-school reunion and celebration in June 2006 at the Peoria Civic Center. Sports Peoria High is a member of the Big Twelve Conference (Illinois) in athletics, and the school mascot is the Lions. The school mascot was the Maroons until the late 1940s when it was changed. The school colors are maroon, black, and white. Their longtime rivals are the Peoria Manual Rams. Student council The student council of Peoria High School is a part of the Hopewell District of the Illinois Association of Student Councils. They take part in (as well as host) a multitude of events for student councils throughout the state. Alumni Harry Bay (1878-1952), professional baseball player Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (1853-1937), 38th Mayor of Chicago and 24th Governor of Illinois Philip José Farmer (1918-2009), writer best known for his Riverworld series of science fiction novels and who also wrote pastiches of famous pulp-fiction characters, including a biography of Tarzan Harry Frazee (1880-1929), theatrical impresario, owner of Boston Red Sox who sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees Betty Friedan (1921–2006), activist and author of the Feminine Mystique Danny Goodwin (b. 1953), former MLB player (California Angels, Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics) first player from a Historically Black University to be inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame A. J. Guyton (class of 1996), NBA player for Chicago Bulls and Golden State Warriors John Grier Hibben (1861-1933), academic who succeeded Woodrow Wilson as President of Princeton University Curley "Boo" Johnson (class of 1981), Harlem Globetrotters Ralph Lawler (b. 1938), television and radio play-by-play announcer, best known as the long-time voice of the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA Shaun Livingston (class of 2004), former professional basketball player and executive for the Golden State Warriors: Brooklyn Nets, Los Angeles Clippers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Washington Wizards, Miami Heat, Charlotte Bobcats,