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G.W. Brackenridge High School
400 Eagleland
San Antonio, TX 78210
Phone: 210-533-8144 Fax: 210-534-9770
San Antonio, TX 78210
Phone: 210-533-8144 Fax: 210-534-9770
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Community Graffiti Initiative
In an effort to address graffiti and prevent the unpleasing damage that it inflicts within our community as well as curb the nonsensical expenses it takes to clean it up, call the SAISD Campus Crime Stoppers.
Submit a tip by :
Text Message, text "SAISD plus your message" to Crimes (274637)
or
at: www.saisdcrimestoppers.com
or
Call (210) 227-8477
You will remain Anonymous
The Weekly Eagle
Monday, May 20th
Brackenridge HS Summer 2013 - Relocation Coordination, 11:00AM-12:30PM
Budget Meeting, 2:00PM-2:45PM PM, Main Office
Dept chair/Principal strategic session, 3:45PM-5:15PM, Data War Room
Admin Team Meeting, 4:30PM-5:30PM, Vasquez Office
Tech rehearsals for musical, 4:30PM-9:30PM, Theatre
Tuesday, May 21st
8th Grade Transition- Brackenridge HS, 9:00AM-10:00AM, Auditorium
Incoming 9th Grade Campus Visit, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Brackenridge
10th Grade WLMS Art pace Site Visit Lesson, 9:00AM-11:30AM, MPR
ISSN Magnet Briefings, 9:15AM- 11:15AM, MPR
Ortiz-Student Advisory Luncheon, 12:00-2; 00PM, Aldacos Sunset Station
CLT Meeting, 4:30PM-5:30PM, Library
Maestro Conference, 4:30PM-7:30PM, Brackenridge
Tech rehearsals for musical, 4:30PM-9:30PM, Theatre
Zumba Training, 5:00PM-6:00PM, Cafeteria
NHS Induction Ceremony, 6:30PM-8:00PM, Auditorium
Brackenridge Alumni Scholarship Reception, 6:30PM-7:30PM,MPR
Brackenridge Alumni Scholarship Presentation, 6:30PM-9:30PM, MPR
Site Visit Dinner with ISSN Team, 6:00PM-8:00PM, TBA
Wednesday, May 22nd
Principal Meeting, 8:00AM-10:00AM, Burnet Cafeteria
Breakfast for ISSN Site Visit Team, 8:30AM-9:00AM, Library Workroom
Senior Assembly, 10:30AM, Auditorium, BHS
ISSN Core Teachers Lunch/Interview with Site Visit Team, 11:15AM-11:55, Mr. Flores Office, Ms. Pacheco
ISSN Luncheon, 1:00PM-4:15PM, MPR
ISSN Site Visit District Officer Interview, 3:00PM-3:30PM, BHS
Ortiz- Nurse Interview, 4:30PM-5:00PM, BHS
UT Outreach, 5:00PM-7:00PM, Tomatillos Café
DECA Employer/Parent Appreciation Banquet, 6:30PM-8:00PM,
NHS Induction Ceremony, 6:00PM-9:30PM, Auditorium
DECA Banquet, 6:30PM-9:00PM, Cafeteria/Mall
Night of Champions
Thursday, May 23rd
Mentor Session Jeremy Santibanez, 7:30AM-8:30AM, Main Office
Breakfast for ISSN Site Visit Team, 8:30AM-9:00AM, Mr. Flores’ Office
10th Grade WLMS Field Trip, 9:00AM-3:00PM, Art pace San Antonio
UT OutReach, 9:30Am-2:00PM, MPR
Mission Reach Race/Walk route options, 10:30Am-11:30AM, BHS
Guenther Scholarship Luncheon, 12:00PM-1:30PM, 2201 Broadway
SS Dept Chair Meeting, 4:00PM- 6:00PM, MPR
Tech rehearsals for musical, 4:30PM-9:30PM, Theatre
Senior WLMS Honor Cord ceremony, 6:00PM-7:00PM, MPR
NHS Banquet, 7:00PM-10:00PM, off site
Band Banquet, Cafeteria
Recycle, outside a.m. classes’ buildings during AM, and main building PM. classes, Hierholzer
Friday, May 24th
Final day of ISSN site visit, 8:00AM-12:00PM, Brack
Dance Team to Poe, 11:00Am-12:30, TBA, Ms. Terrell-Alvarado
Summer Asst Principal Duty Schedule and Summer School registration plan due, 1:00PM-2:00PM, Vasquez, Beck
Budget Meeting, 1:00PM-2:00PM, Main Office
Teen dating Violence Presentation, 2:40PM-4:15PM, Auditorium
Brackenridge HS - Allocation Meeting, 3:45PM-4:30PM, HR Conference Room
Pre AP summer curriculum due
Deadline to send Transfer Revocation Letters, Parent Notification
Reminder:
05/25- New Teacher Fair, 1:00PM-5:00PM, TBA
05/25- Fierce, Fit and Fabulous, 8:00AM-1:00PM, Gym/Track
05/25- UIL State Solo and Ensemble, TBA, Austin
Rehearsal-Friday, June 7th 9:00 am –12:00 pm
Graduation Ceremony-Sunday, June 16 2:00–4:00 pm Alamodome
OUR VISION
G.W. Brackenridge High School is dedicated to graduating all students as empowered, community-minded, college-ready students who think innovatively, reason logically, and contribute as 21st Century globally-competent citizens.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
G.W. Brackenridge High School will educate every student to be self-sufficient, strengthen every student to be competitive in all challenges of mind and heart, and nurture every student to value wisdom in a diverse world through multiple pathways that incorporate 21st Century skills, a globally sensitive curriculum and service learning.
ALMA MATER
BRACKENRIDGE, BRACKENRIDGE
We are with you heart and soul
We will fight and win our goal
Ranking high you know why;
Just because you carried through
All those things that are great and good
Brackenridge, here's success to you
BHS, o'er the rest
In the game of life we lead
Fighting fair do-or-dare
Thanks to thee and to thy creed
We will go but we know in a pleasant
memory
Will be always within our hearts
Of the days we spent with thee
FIGHT SONG
Onward eagles, onward eagles
Fight right through that line
Circle right around those end boys
Touchdown sure this time! Rah! Rah!
Rah!
Tackle down them, hold them, ground
them
Now let them free
Onward you eagles onto victory
E-E-E-A-G-L-L-E-S
E-A-G-L-E-S
Fight for the purple and white
E-E-E-A-G-L-L-E-S
E-A-G-L-E-S
Fight! Fight! Fight!
FEEDER SCHOOLS
Middle Schools
Page MS
Poe MS
Elementary Schools
Bonham ES (PK-8)
Douglass ES
Green ES
Herff ES
Highland Park ES
Japhet ES
Riverside Park ES
Smith ES
BRACKENRIDGE HISTORY
The School (this article was taken from ACCD.edu):
A more amusing anecdote concerns a(nother) San Antonio public high school and–surprisingly– the eighteenth century African-American poetess, Phillis Wheatley. Even though she entered childhood as a slave to a New England merchant family, from whom she took her surname, Wheatley is generally considered one of the most important American poets of the eighteenth century. Her collection of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), was probably the first book by an African-American to be published. As a result of her accomplishment, when the original Brackenridge High School on the city's south side, which had been built in 1919, was replaced with a new structure during the 1970's, the District decided to rename it Phillis Wheatley High School, in honor of the first African-American author. Unfortunately, the name change did not please the close-knit alumni of the original Brackenridge campus, many of whom had attended the old school decades earlier, when that area of town was a prominent middle-class neighborhood. They simply wanted to hold on to the prominent local name with which they identified their high school traditions of years past. Their influence was strong enough that the San Antonio Independent School District changed the name of the new facility, located a few blocks east of the King William Historic District, back to Brackenridge High School, (in 1988) and the black poetess' name was (changed) to an institution called Phillis Wheatley Middle School.
(http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/mcquien/htmlfils/schools2.htm)
The school is named after:
George Washington Brackenridge was born in Warwick County, Indiana, in January of 1832. He attended the University of Indiana, and Harvard University. When his parents came to Texas in 1853, they settled at Texana (now a ghost town) in coastal Jackson County.
From 1857 to 1860 Brackenridge served as a Jackson County surveyor and when the Civil War erupted, he started trading cotton at Matamoros while his three brothers served on active duty with the Confederate Army.
Early in the war Brackenridge claimed Union sympathies and was banished from Texas.. He became United States Treasury agent in July of 1863, and worked in New Orleans after that city was occupied by Federal forces.
At war’s end, Brackenridge moved to San Antonio where he opened the San Antonio National Bank. He became president of the San Antonio Water Works, director of the San Antonio Express (the Express Publishing Company), served as a regent of the University of Texas from 1886-1911 and even found time to serve as president of the San Antonio school board.
Brackenridge, who never married, gave the bulk of his money (while living) to colleges and universities in Austin, San Antonio, Seguin and Galveston. He once proposed that the main campus of UT be moved to 500 acres on the Colorado River, which he had previously donated to the university.
Another gift was the park where his statue now sits. Incarnate Word College bought the Brackenridge home which it continues to maintain. He died in San Antonio in the last days of 1920 and was buried in the Brackenridge family cemetery near Edna.
( Article on TexasEscapes.com)
