Warren Easton High School's 172 Amazing Years: What Fortune Sends We Meet

by Carroll Trosclair

Highlights from the history of Warren Easton High School, which was founded in 1843 and modeled after Horace Mann's Boston schools as the oldest public high school in New Orleans. Includes chapters on the school's survival through the Civil War, Reconstruction, the pauperism era, through its gender and racial integration and its comeback from Hurricane Katrina as a charter school with the help of people like Sandra Bullock. Recalls such alumni as Judge J. Skelly Wright of the Federal Appeals Court in Washington, Louisiana Governor Richard Leche, Michigan Chief Justice Betty Weaver, All-Pro running backs Steve Van Buren and Eddie Price, Metropolitan Opera star Charles Anthony, Pete Fountain, Louis Prima, Troy "Trombone Shortly" Andrews, Authors J. Hamilton Basso and Harnett Kane, Dr. Bert Braud, Al Belletto, Irving Fasola, Mayor Victor Schiro, Warren Luening, Pitcher Jack Kramer, Basketball stars Alex "Greek" Athas and Warren Perkins, Rapper Master P, Roy Wiegand, Nicholas Payton, Boxer Willie Pastrano and its own amazing World War II "Greatest Generation."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515364968
• ISBN13: 9781515364962
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.7" x 8.5"