Bryan High Gets a New Name: Travis Bryan High School

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Updated: 8:25 AM Nov 10, 2009 Bryan High Gets a New Name: Travis Bryan High School There's a slight change to the name when you talk about Bryan High School. Posted: 7:26 AM Nov 10, 2009 Reporter: Steve Fullhart Email Address: fullhart@kbtx.com

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There's a slight change to the name when you talk about Bryan High School.

The Bryan school board voted Monday evening to rename Bryan High School as Travis B. Bryan Jr High School in honor of the late community leader whose family helped start the city.

The move comes weeks after the Bryan city council renamed the municipal golf course in honor of the Bryan family.

Bryan Jr died in September at the age of 87.

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Posted by: Jill Location: Bryan on Dec 8, 2009 at 02:02 PM

I believe Mr. Travis Bryan was a great man. My mother worked at his bank for many years, and he always treated her and his employees with great respect. BUT... Can we find a better way to honor this man, his family, and the contribution he made to our fine community. I am a proud Bryan High School alumnus. I would not like for my school's name to change. It was bad enough to have to split off, make a new high school, and name it after another family from our community’s past. I would love for the school board to rethink their decision. You might say, “What’s the big deal? It’s just a name!” Bryan High School was not “just” any old high school to me. It was MY school. Changing the name makes the school I grew up in nonexistent in my eyes. I would hope that the Bryan School Board would not take that away from my fellow alumni and me.
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Posted by: Nolan Turner Location: Austin on Nov 27, 2009 at 11:30 PM

I come home for the holidays to see that I arrived for the wrong holiday. Is it the horrors of Halloween? Or is it foolish ways of Aprils Fools? Travis Bryan HS? What the heck is that all about? I first sniffed stupidity when they named newest school after someone known as Rudder (did he ever live or teach in Bryan schools or make that big of an impact on BISD or its children?) Why don't ALL of the past BHS graduates get together and write this school board a letter. Just include two words: NO WAY. Then let us see if they get the point and allow the citizens and the graduates to voice our opinion for them to fix this horrific error in judgment – before they are rightfully voted off the board.
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Posted by: Former Student Location: College Station, TX on Nov 23, 2009 at 12:44 AM

The issue here is not about what kind of person Travis Bryan, Jr. was, but that the name of the high school which many of us are so proud of is being something that sounds much worse than Bryan High. This high school is not for one person, it is for a town. This is Bryan High School, and we are here for the city of Bryan, our home. The new name is too long, unnecessary, and makes Bryan High sound like a Jr. High School. Very poor choice that makes every alumnus I know upset. Change it back to Bryan High.
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