Hazelwood East Celebrates 30th Year at Homecoming

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Post published:October 31, 2006
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2006 HAZELWOOD EAST HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING COURT: Front row, left to right: freshmen Kaitlin Webb, Brittney Brooks; seniors Amanda Andrews, Queen Lynda Jenkins, Sara Howze, Candra Barrett and Brittany Tolliver. Back row, left to right: sophomores, Tamara Wesley, Ashley Fordyce, Shayâ€™Na Brown; juniors Antoinette Terrell, Fashonâ€™ Simpson, Alex Creamer and Vasmine Washington.

It wasn’t just a Homecoming football game this year; Hazelwood East High School also celebrated 30 years of excellence since it opened in 1976.

The Spartans current home on Dunn Road is a direct result of overcrowding at the second-generation Hazelwood High School on New Halls Ferry Road in the early 1970s. Back then, students attended high school in split-shifts â€“ East students started at 6:30 a.m. and classes dismissed at 12:30 p.m. By the mid-1970s, two new high schools, East and Hazelwood West, opened to handle the load.
This year, the Spartans honored those three excellent decades with a Homecoming parade. That afternoon, the football team beat the Troy Buchanan Trojans 25-0. This yearâ€™s homecoming dance carried the theme, “An Evening in Paradise.” Homecoming queen this year is senior Lynda Jenkins.