To many of the 120 or so former students and teachers who gathered Monday night, the best way to keep the name of their long-closed high school alive is by planting seeds for the future in its name.

Jerry Keenan likes to be in his office well before school starts each day at Harding High in St. Paul ... was hired as a business teacher at Mechanic Arts High School in the fall of 1960 ...

Catharine D. Lealtad was the only black student in her senior class at St. Paul's Mechanic Arts High School in 1912. Her "splendid record" earned an honor remarkable enough to merit the ...