SAN ANTONIO – Earlier this year, the superintendent at South San Independent School District, Ron Durbon, resigned from his position among much controversy.
Now, a new fight is brewing around the decision to rename the athletic center that bears his name.
Some residents and former students at South San say there's a special person who is a much better choice to name the complex after: Ray Rangel, a 1995 graduate of South San High School and a star athlete during his time there.
Rangel died while serving in Iraq in 2005, the same year the athletic complex was built.
"It's actually tradition to name a building after one of their own, and after someone who has passed on," said South San graduate Jessica Jimenez. "To me, because it happened the year Ray was killed, it was only natural to name the building after somebody like him."
Jimenez is spearheading the movement to change the name from the Ron Durbon Athletic Center to the Ray Rangel Athletic Center.
Rangel's parents say it would be an honor.
"It takes a village to raise a child, and I really believe this whole community, friends, and family, coaches, played a part in molding him into the person he was," said Federico Rangel, Ray's father.
"To me, he just exemplifies every value that our students who come to this school should try to uphold, and to me, if we can name something like this after him, then he wouldn't have died in vain," Jimenez said.
A formal proposal to get the name changed will be presented to the South San school board at their March 28 meeting.
A Facebook campaign have been started in support of the change.