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The West Field High School logo is depicted on a Taylor-West Weber Water tower Monday, July 28, 2025.

Ryan Aston, Standard-Examiner

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West Field High School student body officers Hannah Judkins, Ashlyn Carlton, Maddie Huffaker and Brielle Wray pose for a photo following a February meeting with the Taylor-West Weber Water District.

Photo supplied, Allison Pfister

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The West Field High School logo is depicted on a Taylor-West Weber Water tower on Monday, July 28, 2025.

Ryan Aston, Standard-Examiner

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TAYLOR — For decades, the water tower located near 2150 S. 3500 West in Taylor stood as one of the most recognizable landmarks in Weber County as a result of the Batman logo emblazoned upon it by graffiti artists. Now, the tower serves as a beacon for school spirit and community pride thanks to the Taylor-West Weber Water District and West Field High School’s 2025 class.

Gone is the makeshift bat signal — believed by some locals to be the handiwork of a former Fremont High School student. In its place, West Field’s burnt-orange Longhorns logo pops against the bright white paint that now covers the tower.

“Every so often things need to be painted,” Taylor-West Weber Water Manager Ryan Rogers told the Standard-Examiner in January. “We want things to look nice and look good. We don’t like graffiti sitting up there, really.”

Although some residents lamented the loss of the Batman logo, which couldn’t be repainted due to copyright restrictions with DC Comics/Warner Bros., West Field English Teacher and Student Government Advisor Allison Pfister perceived the water tower’s repainting as an opportunity to bolster school spirit and foster a sense of pride in the new high school among the community at large.

“When we found out there was talk of repainting the water tower, (West Field High School Principal Mike Martini) started some conversations with people in the community about this process of repainting it,” Pfister said. “I think it just kind of organically came to the idea of, ‘Well, why don’t we put something up there?’ And what better to put up there than something that represents the community? And a longhorn made the most sense.”

So, senior members of the school’s student government met with the Taylor-West Weber Water District in February and March to propose adding its logo to the tower as their class gift to the school and the community at large. According to Pfister, Senior Class President Maddie Huffaker designed the potential logos with the assistance of the school’s digital media faculty.

Afterward, West Field’s senior class voted on the logo to be painted on the tower as part of the water district’s planned repainting and maintenance. The winning logo was then painted onto the tower, eventually giving way to a larger set of longhorns to be seen from miles away.

Pfister described West Field’s first year as a “whirlwind” and said that building school spirit remains an ongoing process. However, she said that the school’s students, by and large, are “excited to be Longhorns,” noting that last year’s “Lead Our Legacy” theme will be succeeded by a call to “Own the Orange.” She believes that the new water tower can play a role in that effort.

“I can’t think of any other high school in our region, let alone in our area, that has a water tower with their logo on it,” Pfister said. “I just think it’s pretty cool to have our own water tower with our longhorn declaring, ‘This is West Field. This is where we are. This is the community we belong in and we’re setting up our roots here.’ I think that’s a really cool way to show the community that that’s what we’re doing.”