By Lanz Christian Bañes

The answer was in a staff report on the back table.

But it was when Principal Clarence Isadore dramatically removed his jacket at Wednesday’s Vallejo school board meeting that the applause began.

“It gives me great privilege to present to you the new Vallejo High School mascot — the Vallejo High School Redhawks,” Isadore said, standing in a new white shirt that said the new name in red letters.

Isadore’s announcement capped a months-long process that began in October about changing the city’s namesake school from the Apache. In November, the board unanimously voted to retire the decades-old symbol, citing the offense it causes to some indigenous people.

via Redhawks new Vallejo High mascot, replaces Apaches – Vallejo Times Herald.