SCHOOL BOARD SEEKING HANDLE FOR LANCASTER MIDDLE SCHOOL : PROPOSED NAMES FOR CAMPUS RANGE FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE TO FAUNA.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer A former first lady, a rattlesnake rattlesnake, poisonous New World snake of the pit viper family, distinguished by a rattle at the end of the tail. The head is triangular, being widened at the base. The rattle is a series of dried, hollow segments of skin, which, when shaken, make a whirring sound. species and the Antelope Valley's most common weather condition are among the names suggested for a new middle school. Twenty-two names were submitted by the students, parents, and staff at the four elementary schools - Lancaster, Nancy Cory, Sierra and Sunnydale - that will send pupils to the middle school planned for 27th Street West and Avenue J. ``The board said it wanted site input from the feeder schools,'' Lancaster school district Lancaster School District may refer to:
Trustees will discuss the names at the board meeting at 7:30 p.m. today at the district office, 44711 N. Cedar Ave. The board may narrow the list down to five names, and then submit them to parents and students for a final vote. Depending on state funding, the school could open in the 1998-99 school year. Some proposed names for the campus come from well-known people and the not so well-known, such as Eleanor Roosevelt; suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony; Christa McAuliffe Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. , the teacher who perished in the 1986 space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. explosion; and Bessie Coleman Elizabeth 'Bessie' Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926), popularly known as "Queen Bess," was the first African American woman to become an airplane pilot, and the first American woman to hold an international pilot license. , the first African-American woman to obtain a pilot's license. Another name has a Hollywood connection. Someone suggested naming the school Legends, the bankrupt housing tract that was burned down in the climactic scene of a Mel Gibson action film, ``Lethal Weapon 3.'' The school site is part of the former tract. Other suggested names include Mojave Winds, Antelope Valley, Amargosa Creek, Apollo, Cactus, Coyote Flats, Desert Sands, Diamondback, High Desert, Mimosa, Mountain View, Sunview, Sierra Sunrise, Sunshine, Viper, Westdale and Westview. |
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