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Welcome Fellow Eagles!
Our class website was developed to give fellow classmates a place to
find contact information, renew old friendships and plan for reunions.
We hope it will be beneficial to you. Its continued success
depends on your help so let's keep the site active and growing. Send us
your recent photos, news and updated contact information. Thanks to
all who visit and we hope you enjoy the site. Visit with other Paxon grads
from multiple years on the first Wednesday of each month at the
Piccadilly at Lane & Ramona. Arrive around
11:00 AM, go through the food line and proceed to the big room in
the back. The room is reserved from 11:00 to 1:30 to allow plenty of
time for socializing. No reservations. Just show up ... and bring other
Paxon grads if you can! View luncheon attendees by month for
2006,
2007
and
2008.
Multi-Class Reunion: 2008: Don't
forget to make plans for the 1955 to 1967 Paxon multi-class reunion
scheduled for July 5, 2008, from noon until 11:00 PM, at the National
Guard Armory on Normandy Boulevard. Click here
for details and reservation information.
45th Reunion - 2009: We know it
seems impossible, but we will be celebrating our 45th reunion next year.
The Reunion Committee's first planning session will be on May 2nd so we don't have any details at
the moment but it will probably be scheduled from July 10th to July 12th,
2009. Please
send us an email if you would like to participate on the Reunion
Committee.
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Paxon History
Paxon High School was originally named Paxon Field Junior-Senior High
School when it was built in 1954. It included 7th through 12 grades
until 1957, when Paxon Junior High was built nearby. Paxon became a
college preparatory school and an International Baccalaureate school in
1996 and is now one of the top high schools in the nation.
According to the College Board's Advanced Placement
Report to the Nation, Paxon High School has one of the strongest math
and science Advanced Placement programs in the State of Florida. Because
of this outstanding accomplishment, Paxon is one of a select group of
Florida schools invited to apply for the Siemens Advanced Placement
High School Award. Only about 10-15 schools per state have been invited
to apply. The site where the school was built was
Paxon Air Field, where Bessie Coleman, the first African-American female
pilot, was killed in a plane accident in 1926. Paxon Field was probably
Jacksonville's first airfield, with the exception of the beaches. The
Navy used the (grass) airfield for training during World War II, but eventually
declared the site excess in January 1947. |
1959
Today
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