Gym Persuasive Speech

Faculty and students will vote beginning March 29 continuing through March 31, to determine if the gym for the school will get its name changed, due to the past of the school’s first principal, Lee Stewart.

“We will lose more than a name if this proposal passes. Our students do not think of Lee Stewart when they talk about the gym,” Lindy Hall, girls’ Varsity basketball coach said. “Instead, they think about the history that happened there.” Hall said the gym represents more than 100 years of memories. Many of the students and faculty have graduated from or have family that graduated from Leaguetown High. One student’s relatives have graduated from the school for the past two generations.

“All my life I’ve heard stories about how they played basketball in the legendary Stewart Gym,” freshman, Ray Roma said. “ I’ve waited my whole life to play in the gym, and now Principal Falcon wants to change the name.” Roma said that Principal Stewart sounded like a decent principal. However, the history teacher responsible for the discovery of Principal Stewart’s past doesn’t agree.
“We should not honor someone in our community who rode with the Ku Klux Klan.” Montoya said he had wonderful memories in Stewart Gym not only as a student, but as a teacher as well. he said he doesn’t want to change the name, but that we need to. Montoya’s thesis states many facts about Stewart’s past, and after reading his thesis, Principal Barbara Falcon sent a proposal to rename the gym, to the school board informing them of Montoya’s