El Paso High School - Spur Yearbook (El Paso, TX)

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I I If 'lf My Hi tory -Eaufiuue Uzrouglz Pa L Presmf And Hufure For El Paso High School. it's not just the end of another year. but the begin- ning of many more. There is no other high school in El Paso that can claim the lengthy history of La High. EPHS is the culmination of an evolu- tionary process. its ancestor was Cen- tral School, opened in I884. The high school was on the second floor of Cen- tral. ln I9Ol, the high school students moved to a new building, later referred to as Morehead School. Because the rapidly increasing enrollment caused crowed conditions, the final move was made to El Paso High in l9l6. We, the school and its people, have been here ever since. Through time. several concepts. have changed, but others have become in- stilled in El Paso High, never to be re- moved. The original football arch rival was El Paso Military Institute. The prime target is now the Austin Pan- thers. Dress styles have ranged from ankle length dresses to mini-skirts, from suits with stiff white collars to T-shirts and blue jeans. Until the mid- twentieth century, many of the rules were designed to keep the girls sepa- rate from the boys during school hours. Boys had their lockers, went to and ate lunch using the south side of the build- ing. Girls used the north side. Teaching methods and course offerings have also varied. ' With the changes, there came perma- nence. As the physical elements were being altered and transformed, intangi- ble characters were being developed to last through lifetimes. The soul of the school was being shaped and formed. It grew until it filled the whole school and the people who inhabited it. Though there was but one entity, it had diverse personalities. each person seeing and feeling only one or maybe several at different times in their life. For some it was a warm and comforting being, pleasant to live with, happy to think back on. For others it was feeling of disquiet and unrest, something to be 2 Opelziug lived through. As it inhabits' people throughout their lives. it may turn and show a different facet of its personality to its host. a facet never before shown. Whole families have attended EPHS. Grandparents tell stories of their wild high school days to their children, and they to their children. Even as the grandchildren hear the old tales, they are living their own, storing memories until it is time to drag them out and let them be told and retold to their own children. Homecomings bring allages of life together for a week, elders re- membering how it was and younger generations showing how it is. EI Paso High has lived its past through a great depression, four wars. and the development of weapons-which can destroy the entire world. It isliving its present with a nation being held hostage, prices rising. people starving and basic needs becoming harder and harder to fulfill. Will it live through the future? Yes.

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