Written by Lucas Edwards and Emma Wentworth|
The Morgan School is facing many changes as of late: new staff members, new policies, an upcoming new school, and most recently, the change in the image of our husky. Many of you may want to know why is the husky in need of change? Formerly, our huskie has been fine with its mouth closed, why is it in need of change now? We got the dirt on the change, and why it is happening, check it out.
A few months ago, there was a fundraiser in the Morgan gym, and one of the attendees took a picture of the gym floor, and sent it to UConn. The Husky is similar to UConn’s famous logo, and after seeing it, the university decided to take action. Mrs. Hagness and a decorated UConn official exchanged some emails, and it was decided that our school must change our logo or UConn would take legal action!
As unfortunate as it is, there is an interesting opportunity with the change; a new logo needs to be developed. We talked to Mr. Enoch for the details on the picture. “The new husky needs to be different to the point that a random stranger would in no way confuse it with the UConn Husky. There are many pieces of art, and merchandise, and even uniforms that currently have a husky on them. All of these need to be changed, including the husky that appears on The Morgan Huskies Football site. Mrs. Neri was in charge of finding an artist to design the new logo. Katy Averill, a very talented senior artist, is well known in the art department for her works and is currently working on the painting in Ms. Rizzo’s room. Katy was chosen to design the new Husky, and is currently working on some sketches. Once a sketch is approved, Mr. Enoch’s students will take Katy’s design and create templates for the logo.
Famous Women in History
Painted by: Katy Averill
Located in: Ms. Rizzo
Dan,
Since UConn has changed their logo, we are hoping that here at Morgan we will not have to change our Husky. I recently spoke with Mrs. Hagness, it seems to be the question is still in the air. Of course, she wants nothing more than to keep our logo considering that UConn has changed theirs. We will be sure to keep everyone posted on what happens!
-Morgan Pawprint
Now that UConn has once again changed its logo, where does this leave Morgan?
Not what I was searching for but superb anyway! Congrats!
I’m a Lancaster student reading this, and let me just say that this whole website is awesome! but why not have many kids do sketches and have the whole student body vote on one? just an outsider’s perspective.
Heyy~ its Kate from the Flash, I was taking some time to read some of your articles and I was very impressed! This article was written very well. The only thing I would say needs to be worked on is making concise! But good job!
hey Im a Hempfield student from Lancaster Pa and if your school had the loo first why don’t you take legal actions against them.
From Hempfield HS in PA.. I have to say this is pretty ridiculous. There are a lot of high schools that use college as well as pro sports logos and it’s crazy that UConn chose to pick on your school for something as small as this.
Lets change our mascot to the bulldog. Yale is a better school and we have a history with them.
I have to say that I am going to wear my old Huskie clothes till they fall apart.. . .That could be sooner rather than later considering I am from the class of 1993! I love the new gym huskie!
Great point by Eli! Dig deeper to see who decided to use the Husky mascot sooner. But this also gives Morgan the chance to present an updated version! But tell UCONN to stop bullying the lil people!
Then all logo’s of sport teams should not appear. Colleges come after High Schools, Semi Pro come after them and so on. Don’t we have better things to take care of other than a logo. REALLY UCONN???!!!
Hi. I painted the husky logo on the North Wall of what was then the new gym. The one closer to Rt. 81. It was in the fall of 1977 if I recall correctly.
I used the logo that was printed on book covers sold at the student store at the time.
So that brings the use of that logo to at least 1974, when I got to Morgan.
If you need it repainted, I’ll be happy to help!
David Carroll
Class of 1978
We should all write letters telling UCONN to quit picking on the little guy.
Interesting post from Eli. We would need to find out when the logo actually was created. Keep researching! I am excited about the new logo – it can be influential in our design phase for the new school
what about the turf field? are we going to have to change that even after spending so much money on it?
I did some internet searching and discovered that The Morgan School was founded in 1870, and UCONN in 1881. If we were the Huskies from the beginning, wouldn’t UCONN be infringing on our logo? Just because we are well known doesn’t mean they can strong arm us out.
Give the Husky a hat
From Ms. Shook’s C Period World History Class…
Overall, we think this is ridiculous! There is a high school in West Virginia that uses a husky logo that looks like UCONN’s logo. Are they going to threaten to sue them as well?? There are numerous high schools and colleges who have the same logos…Georgia Tech and East Haven are both the Yellow Jackets!! WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL???
“sue us and get nothing…we are broke” Nick P.
“go ahead…take my lunch money” Trent G.
“Use the 2007 logo!!!” Gary F.