The architectural plans submitted in 1959 showed two alternatives for the building, with or without an auditorium and gymnasium. It was to be named after Samuel Gompers, a noted pioneer in the labor movement, but that name was given to a trade school instead (see Rainier). During the planning stages, the school was known as Southeast Seattle Junior-Senior High School. A portion of the site was purchased from the City of Seattle in August 1958. Plans for a combined junior and senior high school in the southeast section of the city were initiated in 1957. Some of the buildings profiled are historic, some of recent vintage, and many no longer exist (new names and buildings not included in these profiles from 2000 have been added), but each plays or has played an important role in the education of Seattle's youth. It should be noted that these essays are from 2000. The profiles from the book are being made available as People's Histories on courtesy of Seattle Public Schools. That book, published in 2002 by Seattle Public Schools, compiled profiles of all the public school buildings that had been used by the school district since its formation around 1862. This People's History of Rainier Beach High School is taken from Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, 1862-2000 by Nile Thompson and Carolyn J.
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