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I hear you Prairie Pup...

I think the rivarly between the two schools is pretty good natured - yet at times cruel. The paint attacks were mutual. When I was at AHHS me and some friends took my balloon launcher and an ice chest full of water balloons full of blue and gold paint and launched them at the big white wall on the front of PHS... It was an act of revenge for the purple paint that was all over the AHHS tower. There have always been mutual pranks between AHHS and PHS... It's sort of a fun thing I think.

Our senior year, Pascal kids got in trouble for yelling something about AHHS kids being rich brats during a football game... The next week we all got in trouble for yelling the infamous "POOOOOR PAAASCAL". We also had shirts made up that said "I used to go to Pascal" on the front, and "...Until my parents got jobs" on the back. We all thought that was hilarious back then. Now that I look back on it, it's not as funny... Thank goodness for outgrowing inmaturity!

But, like you said, the whole time we were going at it with PHS... we were partying with all the kids from there on the weekends. I had a ton of friends from Pascal, and WHHS. Not so many from Southwest though...

Thanks for the info on the new addition. Interesting stats. I can't imagine there being an elevator in the old building. That's really interesting. I wonder how many times the building has been added onto.

As for the AHHS/WHHS thing. I don't know much about AHHS in the 60's. I know that in the 50's when my parents were at AHHS it was the "wealthy" school in town and it had always been that way. Of course drawing kids from Westover Hills, River Crest, Monticello, and a large portion of the Ridglea neighborhoods pretty much explains why. I think that has continued, for the most part, through the years. I went to AHHS in the 80's and even when I was there the school was pretty "upper crust". In fact, in 1986 or 1987 Texas Monthy ran an article about "wealthy schools" (don't recall the title) but AHHS was mentioned as being one of the wealthiest public schools in the state. They even took pictures of the parking lot and all the new cars. Within weeks of the article being published the AHHS parking lot became a hot bed for car theifs. They had to hire full time parking lot security to protect the expensive cars. As for the richer kids going to Country Day, etc... You'd be surprised how many of the weathier people still send their kids to AHHS - in large part because they themselves went there and want their kids to carry on the tradition and also in part because those private schools have entrance requirements just like colleges and if you don't have the grades you can't attend those schools. I know I was accepted to All Saints and Country Day, but I wanted to go to AHHS because I would be number 8 in my family to go there. The AHHS Alumni Association is really impressive too - it's more like a small private college than a high school alumni association. I would say that after AHHS, WHHS and Pascal probably were the other upper class schools. Southwest used to be, but I think it's sort of gone down hill in the past 10 years or so. One of my best friends is a coach at WHHS now. In fact, I just did a guest speaking gig for him two weeks ago. And, my cousin, used to coash at SW a few years ago.

The "Heights Bites - Hill's Kills" chant was still alive and kicking when I was there. Our reply was something really lame... I don't even remember what it was. Our biggest rival was always Pascal. Our big chant for them was "POOOOR PASCAL..."

AHHS was so bad when I was there that no one went to the first half of the game - we were drinking somewhere instead!