A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
The EPISD Board of Trustees will formally re-name the EPISD Student Activity Center Football Stadium to Cozel Foster-Veteran's Memorial Stadium on Thursday, June 27th at a ceremony scheduled for 7:30 PM.
The school board approved the re-naming of the newly opened sports complex, with Cozel Foster's name, in recognition of his work and contribution to the sport in this community.
The special ceremony scheduled for Thursday will be to officially open and unveil a plaque with the new name of the stadium.
"In my humble estimation, the EPISD could have waited another 100 years and still not found a person or family name and public service organization like our Veterans who represent everything that is good and proper about Eagle Pass to place on this stadium we are all so very proud of," stated CD Kirchner, one of the organizers of the event, "June 27, 2013 could very well be the day that all of Maverick County may look back on years from now and say 'This was the day that transformed our County, our City and our school system's athletic facility for the better".
The Foster -Veterans Memorial Fund, a 501 (c) 3 organization, will have a table set up with sample bricks (monogramed with ex students and families names ), 4x8, 8x8, and 12x12 bricks and or tiles that can be purchased to be placed at the entrance to the new 1800 Square-foot Memorial Bldg (to be constructed with projected finish date of May 2014).
These bricks will also be placed along the sidewalk leading North to the Memorial Park and within the park itself that will be just North of the Memorial Building. Prices of the bricks and tiles will be made available to all. The site and location of this building will be shown and explained to the general public before, during and after the stadium dedication.
"They arrived in Eagle Pass in 1955 to a class 2-A high school with less than 80 kids in the graduating class and still see Eagle Pass as one community who now just happens to have two high schools with a total population of around 4,000 students," added Kirchner, one of Foster's former players who invites all former Eagles who played under Coach to attend.
The event has added a reunion of sorts for any and all alumni, EPHS or CC Winn who want to attend this momentous occasion. On Thursday, June 27 from 5:00-7:15 PM the committee will be will be registering alumni and collecting contact information at the EPISD Fine Arts Center.
"There are only 230 Texas HS football coaches that have been selected for the THSCA Hall of Honor - from 1930 - 2013 out a pool of over 40,000 to chose from," concluded Kirchner, "This is our chance to show Coach and Martha and the entire family how much we all appreciate and love them and have all these years since."