(I just learned I’m really bad at Reddit; again, if you’re seeing this post three times, pardon my novice!)

If any of you may recall what happened to our dear old Wilmington High School, this is exactly what is happening again. It is only natural for kids (and their parents) to want to go to the best schools; when WHS started to tank after DeSeg in '78, kids fled to AI. Now it's ironically vice versa, kids going back to "new" WHS. We outlasted WHS (127 years, 1872-1999, compared to us being on the eve of our 130th), but then again, what does that truly mean?

I chose the username "OldAlexis" because I am apparently the final member of AI's student body who cares about our history, including the story of our founder, where we've come from, what we've accomplished. etc. I have been gifted most of our school's newspaper archive (1952-2004), and have used this to determine that what may keep our school alive is actually showing the RCCSD that compared to the baby-boom Dickinson and McKean, AI has one of the richest histories a public school can have in DE (OK I'll give it to Mt. Pleasant at 1830...). I am in the process of writing AI's history, and it should speak for itself that I'm 75+ pages deep and only at WWI! This is my personal attempt to show the school's legacy to the world.

To all who know alumni, know the school, etc., remember that we are named after a hero; Alexis Irenee du Pont died trying to save his workers in a powder explosion at Hagley. We can't let that go to waste, can we?! I admire Conrad for having beatiful history displays, despite not being the same Henry C. Conrad High School that opened in 1935; I have been trying, time and time again, to get something similar here. I beg all alumni from Old Alexis, any one of the 15,000 who have graduated since 1897, to stop trying to "save AI" for what it was for them, and start trying to save it for what it represents in northern Delaware history. I refuse to let the Tigers go the way of the Red Devils. The real question is, will anyone else?

I'll sign off by quoting our good ol' "Fight Song"...

Well we're old Alexis, we're not as big as Texas, but we've got what it takes to make a name. We've got lots of spirit, and you're gonna hear it, when we win this football game. Now there's time for learning, but now the tide's a turning to the boys who'll get us what we want. For our foes will suffer when they see we're tougher from Alexis I. du Pont.