What’s A Good Name For The New High School?

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TThe proposed home for a new city high school on Boston Avenue. Photo courtesy of Morgan Kaolian.

Warren Gamaliel Harding, the 29th president of the United States, is regularly celebrated on the list of worst presidents, a reminder never to elect a newspaper publisher president. Of note, a series of scandals that led to prison time for several in his Republican administration. He died in office in 1923. This was an era when Republicans had juice in the city so when city leaders decided to build a new high school the thoughtful thing to do was name it after the poor president who had recently died in office. If all goes according to plan a new high school will be constructed on Boston Avenue to replace the antiquated hulk up the road. What’s an appropriate name for the new high school?

Warren Harding
Warren Harding

The city has hammered out an agreement with General Electric, owner of the Boston Avenue property, to set aside a piece of it for a new high school, an idea proposed by Mayor Bill Finch. The agreement is expected to be submitted to the City Council tonight to begin the approval process.

So what say you? Let’s submit some suggestions, starting here, to the Board of Education.

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  5. My goodness! I had just about forgotten Gamaliel had been a newspaper publisher. Must be amnesia.

    I guess you could always consider famous Harding graduates for a name. Take Walt Kelly, the cartoonist of Pogo. He most famously had Pogo saying “We have met the enemy and he is us” when talking about pollution in his swamp.

    I always wondered why someone didn’t have that chiseled over City Hall in Latin. Pay someone at Fairfield U. 100 grand to get the saying right. Of course with Bridgeport’s luck the translator would cash the check after giving the city the Latin for “Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Here” but that works too.

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  7. Barack Obama High … I was thinking Bridgeport Academy but that was the name of the Prison by Nob Hill or was that Nob Hill Academy. Seaside High School. Lincoln High School. Martin Luther King High School. P.T Barnum High School. Golden Hill High School. LiL Wayne High School, Beyonce High, New Directions High School, Downton Abbey High School, New Normal High School, Housatonic High School, Pequonick High School, Remington Woods High School, Dupont High School, Beardsley Park High School.

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    1. Bridgeport Now, an even better idea to build a campus at that site that connects the high school to these local companies (also on the campus) and create an immediate HS to jobs pipeline. That’s what President Obama was talking about in his SOTU speech earlier this month. And in homage to his vision for this kind of high school, how about the Barack Obama Campus for Educational and Economic Advancement?

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