By Lanz Christian Bañes

When John Finney first walked into the burned-out building that served as the center of Vallejo’s continuation school nearly four decades ago, he knew he had come home.

“I’d died and came to heaven when I came to Peoples High School,” Finney said Wednesday night, standing in a multipurpose room where that building once stood.

But the campus was no longer Peoples High School, a name Finney helped students develop in 1974 to replace the outdated “Work%

via Vallejo school celebrates renaming as John Finney High – Vallejo Times Herald.