page_title: Hickman High School
section_title: Traditions
hierarchical_section_title: Hickman High School / Traditions
caption_attribution_description: English: The Kewpie was the mascot of the Columbia High School Team. This was first published in 1914 in the Columbia High School yearbook.
context_page_description: David Henry Hickman High School is a public secondary school in Columbia, Missouri, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. The school is the oldest of four high schools in the Columbia Public Schools. with admission based primarily on the locations of students' homes. Hickman is one of the largest high schools in Missouri and has perennially strong academic, athletic, and arts programs.
  There are a number of notable alumni including a Missouri Governor, several U.S. and State members of congress, Frederick Chapman Robbins, who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for medicine, Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, and Kenneth Lay, founder and former CEO of the now-bankrupt Enron Corporation. Hickman is a two-time Blue Ribbon School and a Missouri Gold Star School.
  In 2009, Hickman had eighteen National Merit Finalists, the most of any school in Missouri. Hickman has more than double the number of Presidential Scholars than any other public or private high school in Missouri.
  Hickman was constructed in 1927 on the country estate of Missouri legislator and educator David Henry Hickman, next to what was then U.S. Route 40.
caption: The 1914 Cresset
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