Superintendent Greg Rabenhorst defends the Rebel mascot, stating that the meaning has changed to school pride. UNLV will retire 'Hey Reb!' But some parents aren't buying that, especially in the current political climate. The Rich County School Board will approve the final design before the mascot is changed. An Alabama high school is joining communities in the South that are reconsidering symbols that represent their Civil War history. The university replaced him in 2010 with a new on-field mascot… The Vestavia Hills "Rebel" logo and mascot has been a symbol of the school system since its inception, and while the "Johnny Reb" image of the Rebel mascot is … Dressed in a gray military field jacket and Confederate cap, Beau is a fanged, winking, black and white cartoon wolf. The school’s logo featured a mountain and an eagle. The logo design and "Rebel" mascot were kept by an overwhelming majority of students, with 680 students voting to keep the rebel theme and 350 students voting to change the mascot. While UNLV does not have an official mascot today, some at UNLV still remember the first official Rebel mascot -- Beauregard. The Vestavia Hills High School mascot, the Rebel … Anaheim’s Savanna High School to Get New “Rebel” Mascot by Thy Vo Nov. 7, 2017 Updated Dec. 8, 2020 A mural of Johnny Rebel on the Savanna High School gymnasium. Rebel, The Black Bear was the mascot of the Ole Miss Rebels, the collegiate athletic teams of the University of Mississippi.The anthropomorphic black bear replaced Colonel Reb as the official mascot in 2010. On October 6, 2017, Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter announced that the new university mascot would be the Landshark, beginning with the 2018–19 season. "The Revolutionary Rebel is a great mascot," Larsen said. Colonel Reb was the official mascot of Ole Miss Rebels, the collegiate athletic teams of the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss") in Oxford, Mississippi.Designed in 1936, the Colonel served as the teams' official sideline mascot from 1979 until 2003. Two petitions have been created over the past two weeks regarding the Highland High 'Rebels' mascot: a petition to change the mascot, and a petition to keep it. "Stands for what this country is about, and why this country came to be and there are a lot of great figures in the Founding Fathers of who you can find as great examples of that revolutionary rebel." mascot but keep its 'Rebels' nickname saying it refers to trailblazing spirit, not the Confederacy, after it removed a statue during summer BLM controversy When students voted on the Rebel mascot in 1971, they associated it with rebellious behavior and the Revolutionary War.