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  • Students defend plea to rename Woodrow Wilson School

    01/08/2004 9:37:56 AM PST · by jordan8 · 22 replies · 386+ views
    The Middletown Press ^ | 1-7-04 | JOHN CHRISTIE
    MIDDLETOWN -- Low-key is the byword for the 11-member committee that has begun considering whether the city’s middle school should keep President Woodrow Wilson as a namesake. The Board of Education formed the committee after Middletown High School students Vincent Crawford, 18, and Andy Beatman, 17, requested the board rename the school in May, saying that based on historical evidence the 28th president was racist. "Our charge is to determine whether we’ll ask the Board of Education to consider renaming the middle school," said committee chairman John Hennelly, the assistant superintendent of schools for curriculum and instruction. "It’s not to...