our town was founded in 1895 , we just had our quasquicentennial this summer , it was suppose to be last summer but was canceled because of covid , so this year we celebrated our 125+1 celebration
size wise , well , we're a little different ..............lol
our current school building was built in 1904
but we had a smaller school building before that
it was tough , making that first name change after 90 some years
but unlike yours ,
it wasn't one of those things that happened just over night
it was one of those things , where at one time every small town in Iowa had their own school , but by the 80's and 90's class room sizes stared to get smaller as well , and the state just could no longer afford to keep all these small schools open
and when I was in school , they always said that schools with less then 300 students k-12 would be closing , for several years we always stayed above that 300 student mark , but just barely , we flirted with it for several years , my graduating class had 32 kids , and we were one of the larger classes
so talk about closing our school was in the air for several years , we all knew it was coming
although , technically , they never actually closed our school , but the school building I went to hich school in , is now the element / middle school building
but they've really have updated it since I was in school , they've pumped a lot of money into the building , what used to be the weight room / wresting practice facility , has now been converted into even more class room , it's actually a lot nicer now , then when I was in school
but whats still weird , is that after all these years , when I was in school , our colors were Red and Black , and even though I've been in the school several times over the years , I'll still never get used to seeing in painted in Black and Purple , which is our school colors now
when I was in school , I was a Tiger
but my daughter went from being a Raider , to a Knight , to what we are now , the Titans
we've gone from Black and Red , to Black and Silver , to Black and Orange , to Black and Purple ,
the reason for our name change is much different then yours , ours was more economics , and a sign of the times
your's is because some guy has a wild hair up his