Lamar High School

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Lamar High School

Motto	"VA T' EN AUX ETOILES" French for "Reach For The Stars"
Established	1937
Type	Public
Affiliations	Houston Independent School District
Principal	James McSwain
Students	3,009 (2009-2010)
Grades	9–12
Location	Houston, Texas, USA
Campus	Urban
Colors	Red, Blue
Mascot	Redskins
Yearbook	Orenda
Newspaper	Lancer, Lamar Life
Website	Lamar's Home Page

Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School is a secondary school located at 3325 Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas, United States, with a zip code of 77098. Lamar High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of the Houston Independent School District.

Lamar High School, which is located in the Upper Kirby district,^[1] serves the Houston neighborhood of River Oaks, the incorporated city of West University Place, a portion of the city of Southside Place, and other Houston subdivisions.

Lamar has a business magnet program offering a wide array of business management courses, as well as cooperation with the Houston business community to provide internships and university scholarships.

The school handles grades nine through twelve. Lamar High School has neighborhood, Advanced Placement, and IB Diploma Programme (International Baccalaureate) programs. Lamar has one of two high school-level IB Diploma programs in the Houston Independent School District, and therefore is one of HISD's seven IB World Schools ^[2]. Lamar High School consistently has the greatest number of students who graduate with the IB Diploma in Texas ^[3]. Lamar offers many International Baccalaureate Diploma classes, including several foreign languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Spanish, and Russian. In 2006, 86 students were awarded the IB Diploma, and one third of the school population consisted of candidates for the IB Diploma. Lamar has one of the largest IB Diploma program in North America

The school's mascot for its sports teams is the "Redskins" (see "Sports" section). There is a joke in the River Oaks community that states that River Oaks Boulevard is the only street with a country club at both ends. One is the River Oaks Country Club, and the "other" is Lamar High School.^[4]

Contents 1 Enrollment 1.1 Ethnic Distribution 2 Location 3 Lamar High School Campus 3.1 Lamar High School's 2006 Addition 4 History 4.1 Lamar as a filming location 4.2 2000s LHS Capital Campaign 4.3 Lamar's 50th anniversary time capsule 5 Neighborhoods served by Lamar 5.1 Within Lamar attendance boundary 5.2 Within Lee High School attendance boundary with Lamar as an option 6 Transportation 7 School uniforms 8 Athletics 9 Lamar organizations and clubs 10 Lamar Cable Television (LCT) 11 School songs 11.1 Alma mater 11.2 Fight song 12 Sister school 13 Feeder patterns 13.1 Schools that feed into Lamar 13.2 Schools that feed into Lee with Lamar and Westside as options 13.3 Private schools that matriculate some students into Lamar 14 Notable alumni 15 See also 16 References 17 External links 17.1 Official websites 17.2 Miscellaneous

Enrollment

Lamar's enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year is as follows:

Seniors: 652

Juniors: 678

Sophomores: 787

Freshmen: 681

Total: 3,009

Ethnic Distribution

According to the overall information handout for the year of 2009-2010, Ethnic Distribution is as follows:

Asian: 5%

Black: 26%

Native American: 0.03%

Hispanic: 34%

White: 35%

Location

Lamar is located in the Upper Kirby district of Houston.^[1] Lamar is adjacent to the River Oaks neighborhood. As River Oaks is the wealthiest neighborhood in Houston, Lamar High School is across the street from many mansions. A small shopping center, the Lamar River Oaks Plaza, is across the street from Lamar. The Lamar Tower, a condominium complex, was named after the school and built in 1965 [2]. Many Lamar students cross Westheimer Road before or after school so they can eat at Subway [3], Baskin-Robbins^[5], or Crescent City Beignets (a restaurant that serves New Orleans-style food such as beignets and red beans and rice) [4]. Many other trendy restaurants and shops are in close proximity to Lamar High School. Lamar High School is also next door to the St. John's School, a K-12 private school, and the Bethany Christian Church.

The Upper Kirby district plans to establish a "teen center" at Richmond at Wake Forest geared towards students at Lamar, Lanier Middle School, St. John's, and other Upper Kirby schools and schools near Upper Kirby. Funding issues have delayed establishment of the center.^[6]

Lamar High School Campus

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The Lamar High School campus consists of four buildings, a baseball field, a football field, and tennis courts.

The North Building is a four-story building (including the basement level) which was the original building built in 1936. Its consists of many classrooms, the main office, attendance office, magnet office, IB office, special education office, band room, cooking room, and the choir room.

The West Building is a two-story building that was built in 1987. It consists of science laboratories and computer laboratories. Both practice and performance gymnasiums are also found in the west building.

The East Building is a two-story building that was built at the same time as the West Building. It consists of senior classrooms, the cafeteria, art rooms, the news broadcast lab, the Lamar library, the Lamar theatre, book room, and JROTC rivalry rooms.

The fourth building is the natatorium. The natatorium was built in 1991 to replace the previous pool in the basement of the north building. Bailey Architects built the last three buildings. Unlike the East and West buildings, which are connected to each other and the north building through a series of second-story crosswalks, the natatorium is completely separate from any other building.

Lamar High School's 2006 Addition

November 29, 2006, Wednesday morning at 11:00am, groundbreaking for construction of a new $150,000 athletic storage building was held at the rear of the school complex and was attended by the donating Lamar Alumni Board, the Alumni Executive Director, Contributors, HISD officials, Lamar Principal James McSwain, staff, and many students and parents. This is the first new building on the Lamar campus in 20 years. The building opened in July 2007 and contains storage for athletic equipment and air-conditioned toilet facilities ^[7].

History

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In the 1800s Michael Louis Westheimer, a German immigrant who arrived in Houston in 1859, bought a 640-acre (2.6 km²) farm at an auction for $2.50 United States dollars per acre. On his property Westheimer established a school for local children, including some of his relatives from Germany. The path to the school became "Westheimer's Road," now called Westheimer Road.^[8][9][10]

The Houston Independent School District built and established Lamar on the former site of Westheimer's farm in 1936. Earlier the Southampton Civic Club attempted to persuade Houston ISD to build Lamar at a lot along Kirby and West Alabama; the attempt failed and Lamar was built across from River Oaks.^[11] Lamar opened in 1937 along Westheimer Road which was not paved.^[12]

Lamar grew rapidly to the point where Robert E. Lee High School was built in 1962 to relieve Lamar.^[13] Lamar became an IB school in 1982^[14] and the Business Administration Magnet Program was established in 1989. In 2004, famous alumnus Tommy Tune performed at Lamar.^[15] Robert Foxworth and Jaclyn Smith attended the performance.^[16].

In September 1991 Lamar was one of 32 HISD schools that had capped enrollments: The school at capacity and excess students had to attend other schools.^[17] The graduating class of 2009 had the largest number of seniors Lamar ever had, with 886 students. The next class dropped down to a little over 600 students.

In the 2000s Lamar was ranked as in Jay Mathews Newsweek's lists of the top high schools in the United States.^[18] Many students in other parts of Houston ISD transfer to Lamar to escape home schools that do not have a good academic performance, causing the attendance figures of those schools to suffer.^[19]

In 2007 Todd Spivak of the Houston Press reported about the magazine's feature "These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston." Spivak said that Lamar High School, which he described as "well-regarded," received a lower rating due a 66% graduation rate. Dr. Robert Sanborn, president and CEO of the Children at Risk organization, said that there was an achievement gap at Lamar between the top-performing students and the lowest-performing students.^[20]

According to charges filed by police, at about 8:05 A.M.^[21][22] on November 12, 2007, a 48-year-old man^[23] named Larry Paul Newton appeared on the Lamar High School courtyard on Westheimer Road^[24] at Eastside Street^[25] before classes, approached a group of students, pulled two kitchen knives out of his pocket, and attacked 14-year-old Catherine Sullivan, a 9th grade Lamar student.^[26] Police say that Larry Newton jumped on Sullivan, held her,^[24] and stabbed her right triceps twice^[27] as she shielded herself with her arms.^[21] News reports state that students beat the attacker and subdued him, allowing a police officer to arrest him.^{[21][25][28][28][28]} stopping the school attack.^[24] Sullivan received sutures after the attack.^[21][29] Newton was relocated to the Harris County Jail^[21] and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Before the Lamar attack, Newton had been convicted of resisting arrest. Before the attack, he was acquitted of a trespassing charge after a psychological examination.^[24] Newton hired an attorney to represent him.^[30] Lamar High School offered counseling to the students involved in the incident. Sullivan's mother, Layne Sullivan, stated that the school and the school district did not call her to notify her of the incident; a female student who witnessed the event notified her.^[31] News media reports initially reported that Newton was homeless; a Houston Police Department spokesman stated that he found Newton's address.^[25]

In 2007 22% of high-school-age children zoned to Lamar chose to attend a different Houston ISD school.^[32] In 2009 the increasing number of students taking university preparatory classes applied to public universities due to the late-2000s recession.^[33]

Lamar as a filming location

The school is seen in the movie Rushmore.^[34] In Rushmore the campus is used as the setting for Grover Cleveland High School.

The school was also featured in the Chuck Norris film: Sidekicks.^[35]

The 1981 horror movie, Student Bodies, was filmed at Lamar.

Lamar's fraternity like organization "POW WOW" or "RAMAL" influenced the 1993 Richard Linklater cult classic "Dazed and Confused", the idea of Seniors paddling under class man, although not embraced by the school, is a tradition at Lamar.^{[citation needed]}

2000s LHS Capital Campaign

In the 2000s the Lamar Alumni Association started a campaign to improve the facilities at Lamar.^[36] The campaign is called "Reach For The Stars." The alumni asked Lamar HS parents to donate money for this campaign. The goal is to raise $3 million. As of March 2007, $1.8 million had been raised.

The historic auditorium is the main focus of the project. It is where Tommy Tune, Jaclyn Smith, Paula Prentiss, and Robert Foxworth got their start in stardom. The auditorium currently consists of the 1936-style wooden seats and has dated sound, lighting systems, and stage.

The campaign includes improvements to and additions of the horticulture Center, theater, campus fence, library, south courtyard, electronic message boards along Westheimer and West Alabama roads, Grand plaza, main office, college corner, JROTC center, orchestra room, choir room, Broadcast Journalism Studio/Production Room, dance studio, FFA classroom, furniture shop, parents' office, the principal's office, art classrooms, registrar office, piano lab, teacher's lounge, Business Magnet Office, nurse's station, counselor's office, science and computer labs, and endowment.

Lamar's 50th anniversary time capsule

On October 17, 1987, Lamar High School and its students celebrated Lamar's 50th anniversary by creating a time capsule to teach the students in the future how high school life was like in the 1980s. The time capsule was buried in front of Lamar's main entrance where it lies today. The plaque that marks where the time capsule lies is made from marble donated by the community of River Oaks and fund raising events held at Lamar at the time.

The plaque of Lamar's time capsule reads...

Lamar High School
Fiftieth Anniversary Time Capsule

HEREIN LIES MOMENTOS SELECTED BY STUDENTS AND GRADUATES OF LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY, SEALED ON OCTOBER 17TH, 1987. THE CAPSULE IS TO BE OPENED ON THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY, THE YEAR 2037

Neighborhoods served by Lamar

Within Lamar attendance boundary

Many parts of Houston west of Downtown that are inside the 610 Loop are zoned to Lamar ^[37]. River Oaks^[38], Afton Oaks, Upper Kirby^[1], Avalon Place, Avondale, Southgate, Morningside Place, Highland Village, Shadyside, West Lane Place, Lynn Park, Oak Estates, Royden Oaks, Old Braeswood, Boulevard Oaks, Southampton Place, Sunset Terrace, Broad Acres, Ranch Estates, Rice Village, Rice Military, Crestwood, Weslayan Plaza, Willowick Place^[39], the portions of Braeswood Place east of Stella Link and north of South Braeswood (including Braes Heights and Braes Oaks), most of Midtown, a small portion of Riverside Terrace, and the Neartown area (including Montrose, Cherryhurst [5], Hyde Park, Richwood, Lancaster Place, Castle Court, and North Montrose) are also zoned to Lamar.^[40]

In addition, all pupils in the city of West University Place and the majority of pupils in the city of Southside Place (areas east of Stella Link Road) are zoned to Lamar.^[41][42]

Within Lee High School attendance boundary with Lamar as an option

Students residing in the Lee attendance zone ^[43], including the Uptown district and the neighborhoods of Briar Meadow, Briargrove^[44], Briarcroft, Gulfton, Larchmont, Tanglewilde, St. George Place (Lamar Terrace), Shenandoah,^[45] Tanglewood, Woodlake Forest, Jeanetta, Sharpstown Country Club Estates, and small portions of Westchase east of Gessner, may go to Lamar, Lee High, or Westside High.^[40] Small portions of the cities of Hunters Creek Village and Piney Point Village are zoned to Lee with options for Lamar and Westside.^[46][47][48]

Transportation

Houston ISD provides school buses for students who live more than two miles (3 km) away from the school or who have major obstacles between their houses and the school. Students are eligible if they are zoned to Lamar or are in the Lamar magnet program.

A METRO bus stop (Westheimer Road @ River Oaks Boulevard) is located at the school's entrance. Bus line 82 (Westheimer) ^[49] stops at Westheimer @ River Oaks.

School uniforms

Prior to fall 2006, Lamar maintained a dress code allowing for students to wear most types of clothing.^[50] Starting in the 2006-2007 school year, the school requires school uniforms ^[51]. Uniforms consist of monogrammed navy or white Lamar polo shirts and khaki bottoms. All shoe types are permitted, including flip-flops; female students are allowed to wear plaid skirts. The Texas Education Agency specifies that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.^[52]

The principal, James McSwain, cited safety concerns with a world after the Columbine High School massacre and the September 11, 2001 attacks as the reason for the school's adoption of uniforms. The newly-created policy received opposition from some students and parents ^[53]; the policy was criticized in the May 16, 2006 Houston Chronicle by Alice Davidson in her "Screaming in the Halls" column in the "Yo! Houston" section of the newspaper.^[54]. Alice Davidson was a student columnist who attended Lamar. The Houston Chronicle printed a feature about the Lamar uniform policy in the August 22, 2006 edition of the Yo! section ^[55]; the feature was written by Jessica Silverman, a student at Lamar as of 2006.^[56]

In Summer 2009 summer school students at Lamar were required to buy a uniform that differed from the regular Lamar uniform.^[57]

Athletics

Lamar High School's sports' mascot is the "Lamar Redskins." There were plans to phase out the "Redskins" into the "Rangers" as "Redskins" is considered derogatory to the Native American population. So far, the girls' dancing squad, the "Arrowettes", has been permanently given a new name (the "Rangerettes"). The Lamar Life Magazine announced that the traditional use of the "Redskin" mascot will continue; any new groups, awards, or other items will be called simply Lamar or may pick another name, such as the Rangerettes drill team.^{[citation needed]}

Lamar Redskins' arch rivals are the Bellaire High Cardinals from Houston suburb Bellaire, Texas. Their main competition are soccer and baseball.^{[citation needed]}

Lamar won the 1953 State Football Championship.^{[citation needed]}

Lamar has a storied^{[clarification needed]} lacrosse programs that produced state championships in 1989 and 1995, and state runner- ups in 1999, 2001, and 2003.^{[citation needed]}

The Lamar Redskins football program teams have reached the playoffs 30 times, which ties Baytown Lee for the highest-ranking team in Greater Houston area.^[58]

Lamar has a tradition that when Lamar has a football game, students gather in the middle of the school between the North, West, and East Buildings to have a pep rally.^{[citation needed]}

Sports at the school include ^[59]:

• Baseball
• Basketball (Girls)
• Basketball (Boys)
• Cross-Country (Girls)
• Cross-Country (Boys)
• Field Hockey (Girls)
• Football
• Golf (Girls)
• Golf (Boys)
• Ice Hockey (Boys)
• Soccer (Boys)
• Soccer (Girls)
• Softball
• Swimming/Diving (Boys)
• Swimming/Diving (Girls)
• Tennis
• Track & Field (Girls)
• Track & Field (Boys)
• Volleyball
• Water Polo ^[60]
• Wrestling (Girls)
• Wrestling (Boys)

Lamar organizations and clubs

Lamar High School has several organizations and clubs.
Special Interest^[61] American Field Service, Amnesty International, Animal Welfare Society, Asian Cultural Society, Automotive Innovative Installation Design, Best Buddies, Bike Club, Biology Club, Breakfast Club, Chess Club, Christian Student Union, Culinary Arts, Computer Service Club, Drama Club, Debate Club, Entrepreneurs of America, Field Hockey, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Film Club, French Club, Future Farmers of America (FFA), Gay-Straight Alliance, German Club, Golf, Ice hockey, Industrial Technology Club, Italian Club, Japanese Club, La Vida Dulce, Loading Dock Productions, Lacrosse, PACE, Photography Club, Ping Pong Club Russian Club, Scrabble Club, Skateboarding Club, Sub Log Indian Club, Technology Student Association, Ultimate, Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Club, Young Ladies of Distinction, Young Democrats, Young Libertarians, Young Republican Club of America

Performing Arts^[62] Art Club, Band & Color Guard, Concert Women, Choir, Choraliers, Concert Band, Dance / Dance Theatre, Drama Club/Thespians, Jazz Studio, Madrigals, Orchestra, Poets Alive, Rangerettes Drill Team.

Academics and Honors^[63] Academic Decathlon, Arrowhead (4.0 + GPA), Debate, DECA (Marketing Club), French National Honor Society, German National Honor Society, Russian Club, IB Diploma Candidates, Latin Honor Society, Magnet School, Math Club (Mu Alpha Theta), National Honor Society, Odyssey of the Mind, Quill and Scroll, Quiz Bowl, Spanish National Honor Society.

Service and Spirit^[64] Cheerleaders, Diamonds, Interact, Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Key Club, Muslim Student Association, Rangerettes Drill Team, Senior Class, Wakonda (Freshmen Club), Warriors.

News^[65] Lamar Life (Newspaper), Orenda (Yearbook).

Leadership^[66] Lamar Student Council.

Technology Lamar Robotics Club

Lamar Cable Television (LCT)

Lamar High School has its own news broadcast called Lamar Cable Television ^[67]. In LCT, students are the reporters and provide information about events at school and in the outside world.

School songs

Alma mater

The Lamar alma mater is as follows ^[68]:

" Hail to Lamar, Alma Mater dear
Sing her joyful praise
Sound it far and near
Rally around her banner,
We will never fail
So to Lamar, Alma Mater
Sing, Hail...Hail...Hail"

Fight song

The Lamar fight song is as follows ^[68]:

" Fight Lamar forever, we will see you through
We'll defend your honor all brave and so true
Fight! Fight! Fight
Hail, Hail, the gang's all here
Sound your colors true
We'll fight forever for the crimson and the blue
L-, L-, L-, A-, M;
M-, M-, M-, A-, R-,
L-, A-, M-,
M-, A-, R.
GOOOOO LAMAR!
Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Sister school

Dalian No. 24 High School in Dalian, People's Republic of China has been Lamar's sister school since 2000.^[69][70] Dalian is one of Houston's sister cities as designated by Sister Cities International.^[71]

Feeder patterns

Schools that feed into Lamar

Elementary schools that feed into Lamar^[37] include:

• MacGregor^[72]
• Poe^[73]
• River Oaks^[74]
• West University^[75]
• Wharton^[76]
• Wilson^[77]
• Blackshear (partial),^[78]
• Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (partial)^[78]
• Horn (partial)^[79]
• Longfellow (partial)^[80]
• Memorial (partial)^[81]
• Roberts (partial)^[82]
• Stevenson (partial)^[83]
• St. George Place (partial)^[84] (the rest of the zoning area indirectly feeds into Lamar)
• Thompson (partial)^[85]
• Mark Twain (partial)^[86]

Middle schools that feed into Lamar include:

• Lanier^[87]
• Cullen (partial)^[88]
• Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (partial)^[89]
• Hogg (partial)^[90]
• Pershing (partial)^[91]
• Ryan (partial)^[92]

All pupils zoned to Pershing Middle School may apply to Pin Oak Middle School's regular program^[93]; therefore Pin Oak also feeds into Lamar High School.

Schools that feed into Lee with Lamar and Westside as options

More schools feed into Lamar as all students zoned to Lee High School^[43] may instead choose to go to Lamar High School or Westside High School.^[46]

Elementary schools that feed into Lee (and therefore also feed into Lamar) include:

• Briargrove^[94]
• Benavidez^[95]
• Piney Point^[96]
• Rodriguez^[97]
• Braeburn (partial)^[98]
• Condit (partial)^[99]
• Cunningham (partial)^[100]
• Emerson (partial)^[101]
• Neff (partial)^[102]
• St. George Place (partial)^[84] (the rest directly feeds into Lamar)
• Sutton (partial)^[103]
• White (partial)^[104]

Middle schools that feed into Lee (and therefore also feed into Lamar) include:

• Grady^[105]
• Long (partial)^[106]
• Pershing (partial)^[91]
• Revere (partial)^[107]
• Sharpstown (partial)^[108]

K-8 schools that feed into Lee (and therefore also feed into Lamar) include:

• Pilgrim^[109]

• All pupils zoned to Long and Pershing Middle Schools may attend Pin Oak Middle School^[93]; therefore Pin Oak also feeds into Lee High School and Lamar High School.

• Residents of the Briargrove, Emerson, Pilgrim, and Piney Point elementary attendance zones may apply for the Briarmeadow Charter School, so the K-8 school feeds into Lee.^[110]

Private schools that matriculate some students into Lamar

Some students who are enrolled in private schools in the 8th grade choose to go to Lamar for high school. St. Mark's Episcopal School,^[111] River Oaks Baptist School,^[112] Presbyterian School,^[113] and Annunciation Orthodox School^[114] often have alumni who matriculate to Lamar.

Notable alumni

• Lauren Anderson (Prima ballerina with the Houston Ballet from 1990 to 2006) ^[115][116]
• Hubert B. Bailey - Part time NASCAR racer ^[115]
• Jack S. Blanton - Former CEO and chairman of Scurlock Oil ^[115][116]
• John Culberson - U.S. Congressman (R-TX 7) ^{[115][116][117]}
• Russell B. Cummings - 1942 alumnus, Texas State Representative from Harris County, 1963-1967^[118]
• David Dewhurst - (Texas Lieutenant Governor) Class of 1963 ^[115]
• Linda Ellerbee - Former anchor of NBC News Tonight ^[115][116]
• Robert Foxworth - (Actor, Falcon Crest, Six Feet Under) ^[115]
• A. J. Foyt, Jr. (also attended Pershing and Hamilton middle schools and San Jacinto High School) ^[115]
• Mike Godwin - Wikimedia Foundation general counsel and founding staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as the author of Godwin's law ^[119]
• Ty Hardin^[120] (Actor, Rio Bravo)
• Lisa Hartman-Black (Later attended and graduated from HSPVA)^[116]
• Fred Hofheinz (Former Mayor of Houston)^[116]
• Brian Orakpo - NFL player for the Washington Redskins
• Paula Prentiss^[116]
• Lawrence Roberts (Basketball player) ^[121]
• Kelly Rowland - Grammy Award-winning member of Destiny's Child ^[115]
• Joe Savery (Baseball Player) ^[122] NCAA Freshman of the Year, 2005; Drafted #19 overall by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2007 MLB Draft
• Jaclyn Smith (Actor, Charlie's Angels) ^[115][116]
• James Marcus Smith (Actor) ^[115]
• Tommy Tune (Broadway Musical Performer) ^[115][116]
• Mark White (Former Texas Governor) ^[115][116]
• Robert Woodrow Wilson (Physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize) ^[115][116]
• Marvin Zindler (ABC Local News Anchor - Zindler graduated from a different school) ^[115][116]

See also

Henry Grover, former history teacher at Lamar High School, member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature and Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1972^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

Official websites

• Lamar High School Homepage
• LamarClassmates.com - Lamar High School Alumni Website (Free)
• Lamar High School Alumni Central
• Lamar High School Band

Miscellaneous

• [6] Houston InTown Magazine article about Fran Callahan's fundraising efforts for Lamar High School
• [7] Various photographs of Lamar High School

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