1963 PCHS Pekin Chinks High School Class Pendant Red Stone Non Magnetic Metal. Does Not Show The Date. This Was In My Family’s Belongings And With A Family Members 1963 Class Ring. Pekin Community High School. The Controversial Pekin Chinks. In 1829, a County Surveyor named William Hodge laid out what was to become Pekin. He called it “Town Site”, indicating the land was suitable for settlement. The town was named Pekin, after China's City of the Sun – Pekin(g) In the 1930s, the good burghers of Pekin, Illinois, decided they needed a mascot for their high school sports teams. Pekin sounded like “Peking,” in China, so they gave their teams a related nickname: the Chinks. The team mascots were a male and a female student who would wear stereotypical Chinese attire, calling themselves the “Chink” and “Chinklette”, and striking a gong whenever the team scored. In previous eras the community had almost no Chinese American residents. This lasted until 1981 when the name was officially changed to the Pekin Dragons.
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