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Jun. 29--What's in a name? The alumni of Orlando's Maynard Evans High School see pride, predicated on fond memories of athletic and academic prowess. Most of the families living in the neighborhoods zoned for the 48-year-old school see exactly the opposite -- decay, academic failure and frustration. Orange County School Board members did the right thing Tuesday when they voted to replace Evans with a new $85 million high school in a different neighborhood. They should go a step further and give this new school a new name, a new identity that would connect with the families that have fled woeful Evans for other, better schools. But this has to be more than a kind of…