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
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.
yahooy // Feb 19, 2013 at 9:50 am
Obviously it should be named the Testa Timpanelli Center for Academic Achievement.
BlackRockGuy // Feb 19, 2013 at 10:34 am
I think seeing how Finch is as bad a mayor as Harding was a President Finch’s name needs to be in the new name.
Brick // Feb 19, 2013 at 10:57 am
I like “The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Who Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.” Hahahaha
www .youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-8IuUkJJc
Grin Ripper // Feb 19, 2013 at 12:31 pm
They should sell the naming rights to GE! Specializing in hydroponics from the water works. GE High!
Jim Callahan // Feb 19, 2013 at 12:52 pm
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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BOE SPY // Feb 19, 2013 at 1:45 pm
If you look at when Harding was president and when Harding HS was built, the new high school should be named George W. Bush HS.
Steven Auerbach // Feb 19, 2013 at 1:58 pm
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.
Steven Auerbach // Feb 19, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Rosa Parks High School, Tom Thumb High School, Harriet Tubman High School
Zena Lu // Feb 19, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Park City High School
Jasper McLevy High School
Lennie Grimaldi High
LennieGrimaldi // Feb 19, 2013 at 2:44 pm
If they name anything for me I will get high.
indices // Feb 19, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Brownfield High …
Walt Kelly High School is an excellent idea; Robert Mitchum High or John Ratzenberger High sound good too.
yahooy // Feb 19, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Don’t forget Bill Smitrovich.
bridgeportnow // Feb 19, 2013 at 3:17 pm
Someone said building huge schools is a bad idea. What about moving innovation center incubator companies there to stimulate the local economy?
BridgeportBooster // Feb 20, 2013 at 3:27 pm
bridgeportnow, 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?
BOE SPY // Feb 19, 2013 at 3:52 pm
If you named it G.W. Bush HS and their sports teams were the crickets, they would be the Bush Crickets
Zena Lu // Feb 19, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Where is the “Like” button when you need one?
anna // Feb 19, 2013 at 5:22 pm
After the abuse Finch has received he deserves this honor. GE-Finch Campus.
yahooy // Feb 19, 2013 at 8:18 pm
That’s rich. Associating Finch with an academic setting.
anna // Feb 19, 2013 at 8:49 pm
I want to be loved by you and you and nobody else but you …
yahooy // Feb 19, 2013 at 10:14 pm
There aren’t enough batteries in the world to make that happen.
Steven Auerbach // Feb 19, 2013 at 9:37 pm
Stop being silly.
Mojo // Feb 19, 2013 at 6:25 pm
*** Let’s name it like the city it will represent, no? “Zombie High School!” ***
Mojo // Feb 19, 2013 at 6:48 pm
*** anna continues to overdrink the city government “kool-aid,” no? ***
anna // Feb 19, 2013 at 8:51 pm
I drink the Zombie Kool-Aid.
Ronin // Feb 19, 2013 at 10:33 pm
anna, please drink the “Jim Jones” Kool-Aid.
Phil Smith // Feb 20, 2013 at 12:48 am
Walt Kelly works for me.
yahooy // Feb 20, 2013 at 7:42 am
Finch got creamed last night. No comments?
bridgeportnow // Feb 20, 2013 at 12:39 pm
What about snowplow parking lot?
Ronin // Feb 20, 2013 at 1:25 pm
We have the Moses Wheeler Bridge. I propose the Moses Newton “High” School. Ernie was a Bpt teacher in more ways than one.