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...