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To: MtnClimber

I especially do not like changing the name of a real person who was honored, like Mt. McKinley. It is a historic snapshot of what people were thinking at the time of the naming, and ought not go down the memory hole as well as to not play Indian Giver with an honor that is supposed to be permanant. (Exceptions made for undoing name changes like Stalingrad and Cape Kennedy).

I attended a Catholic seminary in the town of Cromwell, Connecticut. Catholics abhor Cromwell, but it never occurred to me to lobby to change the name.


4 posted on 09/07/2026 6:00:50 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana

My junior high school was renamed

It went from honoring Juan Crespi , a Spanish Franciscan missionary and explorer and diarist . His notes on the coastline , rivers, topography led to the first reliable maps of California.

It was changed in honor of Betty Reid Soskin, a black park ranger until the age of 100. She was a file clerk at the union hall for black shipyard workers during WW2.


5 posted on 09/07/2026 6:17:05 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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