School officials remained true to their colors for the new high school’s uniforms and themes last week.

The colors of blue and gold with an accent of green were unveiled in probable uniform designs at the April 1 School Board meeting, with many residents piling into the meeting room to weigh in on the subject.

While some residents showed approval of the increased use of green in proposed athletic uniforms, others cited a need to go with green as a main color in keeping with Windham’s town traditions.

Jim Curtin of 31 Rock Pond Road pushed for School Board members to consider a change to green, gold and white to be the new school’s colors in accordance with a nonbinding petitioned warrant article that voters approved 1,414 to 973 last month.

Resident Cindy Hastings held up a newly distributed Windham High School shirt in front of the board with concern that only blue and gold were featured in the design.

“Let’s not discriminate against green, which is part of the tradition of the town,” Hastings said.

School Board Vice Chairman Bruce Anderson said the use of the two colors in the T-shirt design was simply budgetary.

“The first time I saw the shirt was when I saw a kid wearing it,” he said.

“This is not a trivial issue,” said resident Kerry Hennessey. “I don’t think it’s something to be apologetic about.”

The board, led by new Chairman Barbara Coish, made no motion to reconsider last fall’s decision, which added green as an accent color after much debate and two petitions signed by hundreds of children and parents in support of green and gold colors.

Prior to that decision, school colors of blue and gold had been decided by Windham school children in a ballot vote on the same day voters approved bond articles to construct its own high school.

“We’ll never satisfy the purists,” said Superintendent Frank Bass. “The ones that want blue and gold – we won’t get there. The ones that want green and gold – we won’t get there ... I think everyone has tried to accommodate everyone.”

“There’s green all over that gym,” said Anderson. “I think we’ve tried to listen to the kids and we have.”