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1968, Southwest Starts with high Rebel Spirit
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| Since 1968, Southwest's first year in existence, thousands of changes have taken place in our school, city, state, country, and world. Years ago we were the Rebels, a new small school in a rural section of the city. The only thing in the area was Southwest and a McDonalds! Today we are the Raiders, one of the 13 Fort Worth ISD high schools in a city of more than 600,000 residents. Over the past three decades our school has integrated, expanded, changed mascots, had hundreds of teachers, and thousands of students. Yet one thing that Southwest has always taken pride in has never changed, our strive for academic excellence. Southwest has consistently led the district in all aspects of academic life over the past thirty-seven years. |
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This picture was taken in 1968 as our first football coach, Coach Cox, talked strategy with a Southwest Rebel player. |
Since the school was brand new, there was no "homecoming", but the students got into the spirit by having Southwest Sweethearts for each sport, voted on by the student body and announced at a pep rally before the fall dance. Pictured here is the most acclaimed sweetheart, football Sweetheart Pam Wafer and her escort Guy Carter. |
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Red and White. The proud Southwest High School Rebel cheerleaders support their school's first year of existence. In the background is the same commons which still stand in the middle of Southwest today. This same school was built in 1968, but actually Southwest High School started in the shacks of Paschal High in 1967. |
Pictured here is the Southwest High School Rebel Band getting ready to perform for their first concert. They began the Rebel Marching Band the following year, 1969, practicing military marching. |
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Pictured here is Frank Kudlaty, the first principal of Southwest. |
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