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for nominations for school names and are now in the process of deciding which suggestions will make the cut. A naming committee made up of representatives from each of the incoming campuses will give the school board two or three recommendations, and the board will vote on the names Sept. 19. The final decision is fully up to the board, said Steve Stanford, assistant superintendent of communications.
District officials also are considering some nominations that were suggested but not selected for use when past schools were built, including Maj. General Patrick Henry Brady, John Farias, and Thomas Spitzer. Brady is a Medal of Honor recipient who lives in the district. Farias and Spitzer are fallen Marines who graduated from Comal ISD’s Canyon High School.
Nominations for middle school 8, which will be near Hwy. 281 and FM 1863, included Donald J. Trump and Barack Obama. Other suggestions included Copperbrook, which is a mashup of the names of two area neighborhoods, and Nathan Macias, a Bulverde resident who served in the Air Force and was the only Hispanic Republican to serve in the 80th Legislature.
Trump got another shoutout in the namesake nominations for elementary school 19, which will be located on Hwy. 46 south of IH-35. Another suggestion was one of New Braunfels’ founding citizens, Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer. Name suggestions for elementary school 20 on Hubertus Road across from Danville Middle School included Chris Kyle, the Iraq War veteran featured in “American Sniper,” and San Marcos officer