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Originally Posted by chuck
Is Eisenhower even still a high school? I remember playing basketball games there when I was in high school. It was clearly going through a transitional period at that time, losing lots of students and changing demographics and so on.
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Eisenhower was the Aldine ISD's answer to school integration lawsuits of the late '60s and early '70s. They took white students from Aldine HS and black students from Carver HS and put them in Eisenhower so they could tell federal judges they weren't "prejudiced" (the word "racist" thankfully was not part of the vernacular in those days).
To expedite this, it spent it's first few years as a combined junior high and senior high with different wings for each level so as to minimize high school boys, um, "integrating" with junior high girls.
By and large, the black and white kids self-segregated but they didn't create racial trouble like many of the parents thought we would. We all got along okay.
I remember the school had no "fight song" the first year so the marching band played the slow dirge-like alma mater song after every touchdown (which were few). I wish I could have suggested the band learn to play "Henry the VIII" from Herman's Hermits and just re-invent the lyrics. Heck, there's a major university up the road who is unashamed to play "I've Been Working On The Railroad" after every game.
The Inwood Forest area was thoroughly flooded out when Tropical Storm Allison hit. I have no idea how well it survived Harvey and Imelda but Allison destroyed the golf course and knocked out bridges so there became only one way in or out of large parts of the subdivision.