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Names behind our schools When you show up in the morning to drop your children off at Theodore Roosevelt Middle School and Ronald Reagan Elementary School, you automatically know the prestige behind the person the school is named after. These were national leaders who gave to our country and have schools named after them from coast to coast. As a community, we look at these familiar names and immediately identify with the great leaders. But what about other schools? Many children attend schools that are also named after people, but these people are not as well known. Giving back to a community is a heartwarming individual act and a person has done well when that community takes the time to honor that person with a lasting presence. That has happened in Bakersfield on many occasions as many of those who worked to build the community are given the opportunity to live on through our local schools. But who are these people? What did they do for Bakersfield? Why do we remember...
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