As a first step we are adding a set of  pages describing the elementary schools that were designated as feeder schools for the then-new Paseo High School in 1927.  Go to the Child Pages menu at left to see those pages.

You may also enjoy the story below on "How the rocks spelling PASEO between the stairways leading to the building came to be"

The rocks forming the Paseo letters going down the hill were carried and put in place by the Class of 1953 with the help of most gym classes.  I made a few calls tonight asking who did it and was told by most who I asked that the best source for that information was Tom Cowling, the President of the Class of '53.

Tom, who now lives in Edmond, OK said, every day, Coach Andy Nurski watched the construction workers grading the roadbed to put in Volker Road.  When they got close to The Paseo, they ran into so much limestone that they had to blast it out and haul it away.  So, Coach Nurski went down to the construction site and asked if he could have some of the rock.  He was told he could have all he wanted.

So, with coach Nelson Dwight, they committed the gym classes to carry the rock from the construction site across Paseo to where it was used to form the letters.  Tom didn't remember how long it took but thought it was a few weeks and was completed in the spring of 1953.

The steps going from Flora down to Paseo were put in shortly after the school was built.  I remember seeing something at the Library where the School District had to have the land condemned in order to put the steps in place.