I've often wondered if "forest green" inspired "Bears." Or was it the other way around? Or was it planned neither way, and that's just how it worked out?
There are other schools in New Jersey that are Green & White. And there are other schools in New Jersey whose mascot is the Bears. But until the middle of my junior year, I'd never heard of another school, anywhere, with that exact combination. Then I learned that Germantown High School, in Northwest Philadelphia, had it.
On an episode of Castle, the title character's daughter, Alexis, played by Molly Quinn, attended a private high school in New York. When she tried out for cheerleading -- later deciding that it wasn't her thing -- her uniform was green and white, and had a "BEARS" logo stitched onto it.
In the next hour, East Brunswick begins its 58th season of varsity football, away to Piscataway. Given the weather (it's been looking like rain all day), the commute (Piscataway is not close, hard to find, and I can't drive and buses don't go there), and the likelihood of the result (we haven't beaten these guys in 28 years - since 1990), I chose not to go.
East Brunswick and Germantown are 2 of the 12 American high schools that I know of that use Green & White as their school colors, and Bears as their mascot. Here are the others:
Bear Creek, Lakewood, Colorado
Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Elizaville, Kentucky
Henderson Settlement, Kentucky
Kiona-Benton City, Benton City, Washington State
Newfound Regional, Bristol, New Hampshire
Norwalk, Connecticut
Sheffield, Massachusetts
Wells County, North Dakota
Wilmore, Kentucky
If you know of any others, feel free to let me know.
If you know of any others, feel free to let me know.
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