Colin Kelly Junior High

From Lane Co Oregon

Colin Kelly Middle School

The Colin Kelly Junior High School student body was organized in the fall of 1945, with 375 students. The students chose the school's name from a list of heroes, statesman and presidents. They wanted to commemorate a "modern-day hero." Captain Colin Purdie Kelly II, a B-17 bomber pilot, was among the first servicemen to lose his life at the beginning of World War II.