Mr. Blanton was the prinicplal when I was there (74 - 77). I've heard of Percy Penn but did not know him personally. Mr. Blaton was pretty cool but that says a lot from a 17 year old about a middle-aged principal.
In those days you could not go out of class without a hall pass (did not mean for that to rhyme). The Assistant Principles were always on patrol.
Contrast this with two stories:
1976 - ROTC Rifle Team going to shoot against Lincoln HS. Kimball - Open, well lit, students in class. Lincoln - Two out of every three lights in the hallway are out. Students yelling, partying in the hallway. Chaos. No one is in control. I'm 16 and wondering who is in control of this school? (We won the match - only competition in South Dallas was Sunset and they were very good)
1977 - Lunch with a friend who transferred from Sunset. He complains about homework. I replied that we have had homework since elementary school (Stemmons). He said they never had homework and was a A student, now struggling to make a C.
Who was failing, the student or the administration?
EDIT: I think that Percy Penn was principal my Sophmore year. Kimball was a three-year school at the time. I actually looked at the Yearbook Excalibar from 1975 and saw myself. Holy **** I'm old! Good times though.
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