The El Paso High School Legacy Series

100 Years of Excellence

     The El Paso High School Legacy Series is  collection of multi-media presentations designed to reflect 100 Years of Excellence at The El Paso High School in it's home on the hill since 17 September 1916.  The programs will feature slides, videos, live comentary, and music to reveal the long history of achievement of it's students and alumni in athletics, academics, the arts, leadership, and invovement in national defense.  The series begins with the story of early El Paso itself and the creation of the grand building and stadium which has been host to five generations of El Pasoans and continues to be a vibrant fixture in the community.  From it's early home to the El Paso Junior College which merged with The College of Mines & Metalurgery to become the College of Education at UTEP to "La High's" envied status as the home of the Dual Language/Dual Cultures High School Magnet, the Legacy Series promises to provide an insightful and entertaining documentary view of The El Paso High School's first century in it's present location.  Presentations are  open to the community.

The Past is but prelude.

     The El Paso High School Legacy Series is a project devised, developed, and produced by the El Paso High School Alumni Association with valuable cooperation from the Administration and Faculty of El Paso High School and the El Paso Independant School District.

Schedule

21 Jan 2016    100 Years of Excellence:  History & Archecture: The Trost Vision

24 Mar 2016   100 Years of Excellence:  Sports

12 May 2016   100 Years of Excellence:  JROTC & the Military

  8 Sep  2016   100 Years of Excellence:  Academics & Arts

17 Nov 2016   100 Years of Excellence:  Leadership

 

Opened in 1884, Central School at Mertyl and Campbell with "High School" on second floor

El Paso High School, from about 1902 to 1916 when "The School On The Hill" made it's debut.  The school building would become Morehead Elementary School until it was raised to make way for the UTEP School of Nursing.

The El Paso High School architect's rendering as it appeared in an edition of The Tatler in 1916, the year the building opend for students on 18 September.