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Article: SCHOOL'S NAMESAKE A WAR HERO\ ROBERT D. JOHNSON FELLED IN BATTLE WITH GERMANS.(Kentucky Life: History)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2003
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Byline: Jim Reis
Four years after the Armistice, Fort Thomas remembered the sacrifices made in the Great War by naming two schools in the Highland district after heroes.
The South Highland School built in 1922 at Fort Thomas Avenue and Alexandria Pike was named in honor of Samuel Woodfill, who American Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing called the greatest American soldier of World War I.
The North Highland School, built the same year on what today is North Fort Thomas Avenue, was named in honor of another local hero -- Robert Dimmit Johnson II.
In an editorial on Aug. 14, 1922, The Kentucky Post said naming the school after Johnson ...