Southeast : CHANGING CLOTHES, CHANGING NAMES

First a line of “sportswear” and now a school. Whenever students at Killingsworth Junior High in Hawaiian Gardens wore banned clothing to class--such as the white T-shirts and baggy pants preferred by gang members--they would be called to the office of counselor Pharis Fedde and given something else to wear. Something decidedly less cool, such as short pants.

The only way an offending student could save face with his peers, fashion-wise, was to announce he was clothed in “Fedde-wear.”

Now, the ABC School District has named the entire school after the retired counselor. Last week, the school was officially dubbed Pharis Fedde Junior High School.

An additional benefit: There will be no more references to “Killing’s-worth-it Junior High,” officials said.