Warde History 101

Roger Ludlowe's brother. Utah's state bird. "Something Warde." Those were just a few of the answers from the current students at Warde High School as to whom our school is named after.

When the Fairfield Board of Education decided to reopen arch-rival Ludlowe High School in 2004, it was decided that our school, known as Fairfield High School from 1988 to 2003, would be renamed Fairfield Warde High School, dropping its original first name.

As a result, I wanted to know if the current students had any idea as to the origin of the school's name. For over three decades, from 1956, when the school originally opened, to 1987, Andrew Warde High School was one of two public high schools in town. Over a generation of Crimson Eagles graduated from our Melville Avenue campus.

My good friend Natalie, a senior at Warde, polled a fairly representative number of students at my request. Thirteen of the 23 students (56 percent) who were polled correctly answered Andrew Warde. The remaining 10 students (44 percent) had a wide variety of answers, including "Something Warde," "That guy," and "Fairfield."

I'm guessing that very few of the students have any idea as to the original mascot of the school. When I attended the Warde homecoming football game a few months ago, I wore my "Andrew Warde Crimson Eagles" sweatshirt to the contest. Everyone who noticed the shirt didn't have any idea the original mascot was the Crimson Eagle.

Special thanks to Natalie for helping me with the survey. I wish her well during her senior year at Warde High School.

Paul

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Watch the AWHS 1976 vintage "film".