{"id":277,"date":"2024-05-28T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:19:50","slug":"bond-issue-for-a-new-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/bond-issue-for-a-new-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Issue for a New High School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flyer for the Bond Issue to build the &#8220;new&#8221; University City Senior High School &#8211; Voted May 25, 1928<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week or so ago someone on Facebook asked about &#8216;what was where U. City High School is now?&#8217; They also asked how long the mascot was the Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked for U. City Schools for a decade. I have pdf copies of some 1946-49 U. City Schools Newsletters. They will be in a different post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also have a copy of the flyer sent to voters to vote for the $550,000 &#8220;new&#8221; High School. The one we all went to. The one that opened for the class of 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To answer the question, trees and fields were where the High School is today. The district bought the land to allow for expansion a few years earlier. University Park, the area between Big Bend and North &amp; South, Delmar, and Balson was all built between 1927-1930. U. City was growing and so was the school district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/aportman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newhs.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:330px\" aria-label=\"Embed of newhs.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f99aceb5-47d0-4eb1-93d3-bacb15838a4d\" href=\"https:\/\/aportman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newhs.pdf\">newhs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aportman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newhs.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f99aceb5-47d0-4eb1-93d3-bacb15838a4d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Why the Indians? The use of Indians as fierce warriors as the mascot started in the 1870&#8217;s. It is almost as old and organized sports teams. The movement to replace &#8220;Indians&#8221; has been going on since the mid 1960&#8217;s. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_American_mascot_controversy\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_American_mascot_controversy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flyer for the Bond Issue to build the &#8220;new&#8221; University City Senior High School &#8211; Voted May 25, 1928 A week or so ago someone on Facebook asked about &#8216;what was where U. City High School is now?&#8217; They also asked how long the mascot was the Indians. I worked for U. City Schools for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,28,27],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-history","tag-indians","tag-university-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}