The true origin of the "Port Byron Panther" belongs to our athletic teams!! I had previously found evidence that the yearbook club was the first to adopt the Panther with their circus themed yearbook. However, I just stumbled onto a newspaper article dated December 20, 1951 that tells us the yearbook club adopted the name to have the same name as the school sports teams. So now the proper credit for our mascot can be traced to our athletic teams of years past. Now the question remains, when did the actual panther mascot become part of our school culture?
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Port Byron Chronicle and Cayuga County News
December 20,1951
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