Munich American High School was established to serve the US military in the Southern Bavarian region after World War II.

The Army requisitioned and repaired an old German school (formerly the Hans-Schemm-Schule[1]) on Rotbuchenstrasse and the Americans moved into that in 1948, leaving the very overcrowded houses on Holzkirchnerstrasse.

The curriculum was basic – a minimum of mathematics, history, science, and German taught by a local resident.

[1] A fine example of modern architecture in post-war Munich was the US school center at the housing area Cincinattistrasse / General-Kalb-Weg in suburban Perlach.

The housing area had been built in the 1950s by Karl Loibl, Hans A. Endres, Immanuel Kroeker, Otto Roth and Carl Kergl and included a cinema, a PX store and a hamburger restaurant.

The friendly and light original architecture has been heavily modified between 1994 and 2003 and the characteristic 1950s interior decoration has been lost completely.

The story of the elephant, as told to Mr. Rex Gleason at the time: "when the school complex was being built, the US administration was Republican.

[11] The mustang came after the elephant and was moved from the US housing area Neu Harlaching off of Tegernseerlandstrasse which leads to McGraw Kaserne.

The mustang was moved in two pieces to the high school in the early 1970s (probably 1972 or 1973) replacing an ox that stood for many years at MAHS.

She left school in her junior year after marrying Amos, who served in the Marine Corps during World War II and received a direct commission' as a second lieutenant in the Army.

Mrs. Amos joined her schoolmates in the high school operetta "Sailor Maids," and in activities of the teen-age club.

[13] In 1955, thirty-eight out of a total of 545 students in the Munich American High School made the first honor roll of the year, Mr. Rex Gleason, principal, said.

Dr. P. C. McCoy, of the political science department of the University of Maryland in Munich, and Robert Zibell, an American Government instructor in the local high school, headed a group which discussed modification of parliamentary law.

Mrs. Katherine Trull, counselor for the Munich American High School, headed the conference arrangements committee.

[1] In the 1964 yearbook, it states that Senior Brian MacFarlane laid a wreath, on behalf of the MAHS student body, at the grave of President John F. Kennedy.

At the 'mock rehearsal' students turned the play into a musical and sang such songs as "Yellow Bird, Way Up on the Rafter There" and "I'm Getting Strung Up in the Morning.

"[19] From 1964 to 1966, MAHS presented an old English "M" to students that were on the honor roll three out of four marking periods in a school year.

The 20, selected by their classmates, stayed with French families during their visit and engulfed themselves completely in the country's language and culture.

Mrs. Nancy Kuehler, the teacher who organized the visit, said the students did so well in school that semester that most of the 20 were almost fluent in French by May.

"The entire class helped raise money for the trip," Mrs. Nancy Kuehler said, "although everyone knew only 20 would eventually be chosen".

The class — which sponsored a teen fashion show, a can-can dance and a French pastry sale —raised more than $2,000 for the week-long visit.

She won the Europe wide contest in Karlsruhe with a speech on "Civil Rights Aspects of the US Constitution".

The uniqueness of the ensemble (16 youngsters swinging in the big band style of the late 40s and early 50s) caused the judges to stop comparing them with the other small rock combos and create a special prize.

Martin Paul of Munich American High School was selected laureate of DODEUSR's third annual Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at King's College In London.

Joe Namath, the football player, and Linda Evans, the actress, visited MAHS in May, 1978 while filming Avalanche Express.

[30] In January 1979 the Munich PX, located adjacent to the school and opened in 1976, was declared off limits during noon hour (lunch) to MAHS students due to complaints.

Students ate breakfast, lunch and dinner in the MAHS cafeteria once in the new dorms at Perlacher Forst.

[43] MAHS played against other DoDDS schools in: Munich football played against high schools located in Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart, Vicenza, Augsburg, Ulm, Karlsruhe, Wurzburg, Stuttgart, Hanau, Vilseck, Ansbach, Baumholder.

MAHS freshman Michael Ondruska won the boys tennis title defeating Berlin's Mat McQueen in 46 minutes, 6–1,6-1 in the Central European prep.

[44] Stephen Curtis, now at George Mason University, coached MAHS and German junior tennis teams to eight conference titles.