Growing up in the 70s, we knew this school as Byers Junior High School. Roughly one-third of each class that attended South High School came from Byers. It was announced last week, “Byers Middle and High schools will no longer bear the name of William Byers, founder of the now-closed Rocky Mountain News and a defender of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, in which U.S. soldiers attacked a peaceful camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho people on Colorado’s Eastern Plains. The schools will now be called DSST: Cedar Middle and High schools.”
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Source: Denverite | DSST school nixes namesake William Byers, Denver newspaper founder who defended Sand Creek Massacre
Class of 1982 - Denver South High School 
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