FRONTIER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WILL BE TITANS  Future SSL School Chosen Before School Opens to Freshmen, Sophomores next year

Posted 09-12-05 - Stephanie Tavares, Bakersfield Californian    

Frontier High School may not have any classrooms, books or students, but it's got a face: the Titans.

Junior high school students expected to attend the school were chosen for a mascot and color selection committee. They came up with suggestions, which were presented to parents and students from schools that will feed into Frontier High, school Principal Bill Bruce said.

"I was concerned about it at first because I didn't know what we'd have as a symbol and stuff," Bruce said. "But there was a student petition with about 300 names on it, so you have to go with what the kids want."

Titans were Mediterranean gods that ruled the earth before the Olympians. In mythology, their king was taken out by his son, Zeus.

The Frontier Titans will be a bit different.

"'A person of great influence or success, a person with colossal power,' that's their view of what the titan was as opposed to the mythical titan," Bruce said.

Some of the future students are as apprehensive about the choice as their principal was.

"I guess (the mascot) is pretty cool. I thought it was going to be something different," said 14-year-old Rae Barrera, who will be a freshman at Frontier next year. "I like the colors, though. They're really pretty."

The school colors are royal blue, black and white. And while the administration was able to come up with a rough symbol for the school, a large blue "f" with lightning bolts, they still don't know what the Titan will look like.

"We're going to get a sense of what the kids like, so it might change," Bruce said of the symbol and mascot.

Having a name in place before school starts is important because the school, which will open to freshmen and sophomores in August 2006, will have junior varsity sports starting fall quarter.

The campus, which is rising out of the olive orchards in west Bakersfield, will eventually teach about 2,000 students each year. It will be the fourth high school to serve northwest Bakersfield students, along with North, Centennial and Liberty high schools.

thswarriors.com note:  Frontier will be located on the corner of Allen Road and Kratzmeyer Road in Bakersfield.  The school's closest neigborhing high school will be Liberty, which is located on Brimhall Road near Stockdale Hwy.