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HISTORY Palmer High School is located at 301 North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs. The present building was built by the Works Progress Administration under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940 . Originally named ''Colorado Springs High School'', Palmer High School was re-named in 1959 after the city's founder, General William Jackson Palmer . At that date, the city had expanded enough to warrant the building of a second high school, Roy J. Wasson High School . The school traces its history back to the 1870s and still uses a "C" for varsity letters, which through 1986 was referred to as the ''Broken Circle Tribe''. In 1894 , the successful Football team earned the nickname "holy terrors," and so the school adopted the nickname "Terrors." In 1923 , the football team won the national championship, the same year that Fred Fink wrote the beloved "Terror Fight Song." Prior to 1945 , the school's mascot was a Pit Bull . In 1945, a Native American Indian student designed ''Eaglebeak'', a Caricature of a fictitious Indian chieftain, beloved and respected by students and faculty alike, and the teams became the ''Terrors''. Despite this, in 1985 a local political hopeful made an issue of Racism for political gain, making Palmer one of the very first cases of controversy over an Indian mascot in the United States . This upset the community at large, even rival high schools who understood the respect ''Eaglebeak'' was treated with, and the politician lost the election very soundly. Despite the fact that he later publically apologized to the student body and retracted the charge of racism, the damage was done, ''Eaglebeak'' was not to return. In the following years, Palmer experimented with a variety of mascots, to include a two-month flirtation with the Tasmanian Devil from Warner Brothers , which very nearly ended in a lawsuit. NOTABLE ALUMNI Notable Alumni of Palmer High School include:
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