The name Chavez or Cesar Chavez doesn’t appear on the new football uniforms this season at Chavez High of Stockton. Everyone at the school, though, loves the logo on the side of the helmets with the shield. Photo: Mark Tennis / Cal-Hi Sports.
The recent furor over the name of Cesar Chavez as the name of a California high school may not be over, but it seems like it’s going to end with one school switching, one school sort of switching and the other staying put. We have a primer on who are the most popular persons that a school in our state is named for, why local heroes may make the most sense and what has been the worst re-naming of a school that we’ve ever seen.
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Naming a high school after a U.S. president or another famous person was very common as most of the high schools around California opened up in the 1920s and into the 1970s. The most common name for a California high school still to this day is the six schools that are named for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. There’s Lincoln of San Diego, Lincoln of Los Angeles, Lincoln of San Jose, Lincoln of Stockton, Lincoln of San Francisco and Lincoln of the Placer County town of Lincoln. We still count Lincoln of Lincoln as being named for ol’ honest Abe since the town is named for him.
