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Article: EDISON WILL KICK OFF 50-YEAR CELEBRATION
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- October 23, 1987
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Just five months before his death in 1931, inventor Thomas A. Edison learned a new school was being built in Gary and that the students who would be going there asked that it be named after him.
Edison died before construction was completed on the elementary school at 5th Avenue and Burr Street that bears his name. He sent a letter thanking students for the honor.
"(I am) gratified and pleased that your young people should have selected my name for their new school," the letter said. "To have my name chosen in this way is an honor to be greatly prized."
This week, more than 50 years after Edison's letter ...