Name the New High School

[proschool]

It's time to start talking about the name for the new high school.

I think that it is important to choose the name of someone who had an enormous influence in the world and on the way that we live. Someone who can spur the imagination of a high school student to think, "wow this was someone who was once a high school student just like me and then went on to change the world to a magnitude that no one person can even comprehend."



I submit Ronald Reagan High School and Paul Simon Middle School.

[EagleDad]

I would second Ronald Reagan.

[chicoryowl]

I like the precedent set on high school naming with a local native American followed by valley.

Therefore, if you could really finesse it, I'd go with Reagan Valley.

[wvhsparent]

The Indian Prairie School District 204 Board of Education is asking residents to participate in the naming of the district's new high school. Residents are encouraged to submit names for the school, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2009.

School board policy states submissions must meet the following criteria:

School names can honor a prominent local, state, or national figure or family, including former District 204 employees, students, parents, or other residents. When the name being suggested is in memory of someone who has died, that request may be made only after a period of at least three years from the date of the person's death.

or

Reflect the location of the building or facility.

Submit nominations in writing with an explanation of why the name is suggested by October 4, 2006.

Submissions should be sent to:

Kathryn Birkett
Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education
Indian Prairie School District 204
P.O. Box 3990
Naperville, IL 60567
[e-mail]

Suggested school names will be referred to the board's policy committee for review. Final action on the recommended name(s) will be taken at a regular meeting of the board.


It needs to fit with the names we already have

I like Metewa Valley (Daughter of Chief?)

[mommygator]

I still vote for Metea Valley (or however its spelled) I think we need to keep some unity with the other HS's names

[EagleDad]

You think if I submitted "Topher Valley", Kathy Birkett would get it?

I bet there'd be a chuckle or two on the board though

[proschool]

How can you have a valley in between two valleys? Doesn't that make it a gulley?

[wvhsparent]

OK how about Metea Mesa ya know M2

[wvhsparent]

New Dist. 204 high school needs a name
Indian Prairie board would prefer sticking with Potawatomi name, but is open to suggestions

By Sara Hooker
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Indian Prairie school board members want the public’s help in naming the third high school.

Officials expect the $124.7 million facility to open in fall 2009 off Route 59 near 75th Street and Commons Drive.

Voters in portions of Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook and Plainfield approved funds in March for the 3,000-student school.

Residents have until Oct. 4 to weigh in on a name.

Suggestions should be sent to Kathryn Birkett, assistant superintendent for Secondary Education, Indian Prairie School District 204, P.O. Box 3990, Naperville, IL 60567. Or they can be e-mailed to [e-mail].

Board members could make a decision late next month. Several said they’d like to carry on the tradition of the Potawatomi tribe set forth by Aurora’s Waubonsie Valley High School, which opened in 1975, and Naperville’s Neuqua Valley High School, which opened in 1997.

“It doesn’t have to be ‘the Valley,’ but that would be nice,” board President Jeannette Clark said.

Neuqua was the son of Potawatomi Chief Waubonsie. Both were important members of the peaceful tribe that settled in the Fox Valley in the early 18th century, according to the schools’ Web sites.

Chief Waubonsie’s name means “early dawn” or “break of day.” Neuqua is most remembered for bravery and innovation.

Name suggestions can honor local, state or national figures or family, including former district employees, students, parents or other residents.

Submissions can also reflect the location of the building or facility.

When a suggestion honors the memory of someone who has died, it must be suggested three years after the person’s date of death.

The school board’s policy committee will consider the names, and final action could be taken at the Oct. 23 board meeting.

“We’re excited,” Clark said. “It’s time to name that high school.”




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[momof3]

mommygator said:

I still vote for Metea Valley (or however its spelled) I think we need to keep some unity with the other HS's names

mommygator or parent - Are either of you going to submit Matea Valley so it is considered?

[wvhsparent]

yep I will....so should mommygator and anyone else who likes it.

I was 1st trying to come up with the bio on Metea to include it with the suggestion.

[mommygator]

you bet i am

[proschool]

I would like to see some kind of biography or whomever's name is chosen. I don't think that it enough to have an important institution of learning named after you just because you were a Potawatmie with a cool sounding name.

I don't know any information about Chief Waubansee but I have seen his name referred to hundreds of miles away. I assume taht he must have been quite an individual to have been known across such a wide area at a time when information did not travel so easily.

[chicoryowl]

I would like to go with a Potawatamie chief. I think we have a precendent set with the two schools.

That said, is Metea the best option?

I did some googling on him and came up with some info, some of it conflicting.

On the plus side: he was a great orator and he advocated education for children (fits nicely with a school)

On the down side: he led a massacre of families of the garrison and citizens of Chicago as they were retreating to Detroit and he died mistakenly drinking poison that he thought was whiskey, according to the one account I read. (Things we'd want to leave off of the school plaque.)

How about Winimac?

[gatordog]

A possibliltiy if the chief theme is followed, Shabbona Valley.
"Shabbona - A Potawatomi chief, friend of white settlers. Lived in what is now DeKalb County."

There is a small town west of us named Shabbona, SE of Interstates 88 and 39. Shabbona's high school, with enrollment of 300, is Indian Creek HS.