CENTENNIAL YEAR
Vol. 99 / No. 3 / March 2021
The student-run newspaper of McKinley High School
Established in 1920
TIGER PRIDE MURALS DESIGNED TO INSPIRE ALL
by Shane Kaneshiro, reporter From morning to night fall, tiger stripes slowly emerge on the wall of McKinley High School’s tennis court. With precision, John Rau outlines McKinley High School’s logo to inspire all. The Rau family has been giving their time and money to create Tiger Pride murals on campus for the McKinley community and guests alike. John and Dionne Rau are alumni
of McKinley and have the commitment and dedication of a McKinley Tiger. They are former athletes of the baseball and softball teams, respectively. John Rau was also in the marching band. In addition, he was on the yearbook staff and a sports editor for The Pinion, the school newspaper, during his junior and senior years. “I have a lot of pride in the school,” said Rau. “I was always in school, especially in the summertime, I was here seven days a week. And I loved it.”
Artistic works and commitment are not new to the Rau family. In their backyard, replicas of the past ten Super Bowl stadiums, and the Sugar Bowl in 2008, when UH went against Georgia, were constructed and increasingly developed a cut above year after year. The images were created with stencils they constructed by hand. McKinley’s campus was at the baseball dugout and portrays the Please see MURAL on page 2.