IHP at Walter Reed - Unofficial Alumni Website

About Us

Hello! Welcome to the unofficial IHP alumni homepage. IHP was a great experience for most of us, and this site is intended to help you reconnect with classmates, and meet other alumni.

For those of you unfamiliar with the program, IHP stands for Individualized Honors Program and is a unique program for highly gifted students founded by William William (Bill) Fitz-Gibbon in the early 1970s. Fitz teaches math and science, and he led the program along with Judith (Judi) Lawson Selsor. who taught English and Paul Mertens, who taught history and social studies. About fifty kids per class were given an excellent educational foundation, emphasizing critical and creative thinking. (The opposite of this, as most of you know, is 'fuzzy tinking.') Mr. Mertens and Ms. Selsor have retired, but their ideals continue with Ms. Fennel and Mr. Rawley, the new program coordinator.

If you want to bond, or have questions about IHP, we've got an IHP-Network mailing list where you can meet and talk with current and former students.

Links

• Walter Reed Junior High School
• IHP Page
• IHP_74
  Original class of 1974 site. Includes a snazzy picture of the class (plus Mertens, Selsor and Fitz) with Jane Goodall.
• Friends of IHP
  Learn more about how you help this organization which supports the IHP program.

IHP-Network Communities

• IHP at Orkut
• IHP at Friendster (First Name: IHP, Last Name: Geeks)

IHP-Network Mailing List

Subscribe to IHP-Network

Last updated: 21 March 2004
Contact: mail at jengod dot com - Jennifer Godwin - Class of 1992