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The vision of Bruce Randolph School is to create a collaborative, consistent, healthy learning environment where students in grades 6-12 are challenged and empowered to be lifelong learners and productive citizens in a global community.



Challenge 2010 Plan


The school attracts and serve bodies of students who enter in the sixth grade and who go on to graduate from the twelfth grade. The first class to graduate will do so in the spring of 2010 and are commemorated in advance with the name of this special reform project. Each class of students will be cultivated to identify themselves collectively as people who will graduate together, six years after they are assembled. The goal is a 100% graduation rate.




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"Daddy" Bruce Randolph
1900-1994


Daddy Bruce Randolph was born in the small town of Pastoria, Arkansas on February 15, 1900. His family later moved to Pine Bluff, Ark. where his parents were divorced. Subsequently, he lived with several relatives Daddy Brucefor the next few years, but left home at the early age of 15, working in the mines as a water boy and a mule driver.

 

As a young man, he bought a hog for $5 and barbequed it with a special sauce recipe he was given by his grandmother.Daddy Bruce He later opened his first BBQ pit stand. In 1924, he married his first wife, Polly and they had a son, Bruce Randolph, Jr.

 

When Polly passed away in 1933, Daddy Bruce moved to Pampa, Texas where we became a successful entrepaneur, venturing in businesses that include a restaurant, a liquor store, a dance hall, and a cab company. He remarried, but in 1958, was divorced from his second wife. The divorce cost Daddy Bruce dearly and after moving to Tucson, Arizona, he tried his hand at again in the restaurant business, but failed.

 

At the age of 60, Daddy Bruce was down and out, and moved to Denver, where his son had opened a barbershop. He made ends meet by working as a janitor and shining shoes. He still wanted to open another BBQ restaurant, and in 1961 was successful in convincing a local bank to lend him the money.

 

In 1964, Daddy Bruce began his Daddy Brucetradition of serving the less fortunate at Thanksgiving. He and his son contributed most of the time and money to feed the multitudes from the meager restaurant that Daddy Bruce owned. For 30 years Daddy Bruce was an icon to the homeless and poor, and when times got tough, many from the community would step up and make Daddy Bruce's dream come true.

 

In 1991, Daddy Bruce had the street on which his restaurant sat (East 23rd Avenue) renamed by Mayor Federico Pena to "Bruce Randolph Blvd."

 

Then, sadly, in 1994, the long fruitful life of Daddy Bruce ended, but his legacy lives on through those whom he touched. Daddy Bruce was well loved, and, as he used to say,

"You can't beat love. Nothin' beats love. If you give one thing, you get three things back."

 

He must have gotten so much in return.