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Earl Warren graduated from what high school?
Reader: You reported a monument honoring Earl Warren is planned to be erected on the Bakersfield High School campus. Let's not allow history to be changed by putting wrong information on the monument. Through lack of research, misinformation or just plain ignorance, you reported Earl Warren graduated from Kern County High School. The name is incomplete. Earl Warren graduated from Kern County Union High School (KCUHS). Ask any alumni who graduated from high school in Bakersfield from the 1890s (when the school was chartered) to 1945 for the correct name of the high school. Let's have it correct on the monument. -- Walter E. Stewart Jenner: You are correct. We ran a correction on Thursday's front page. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 2 comments from 2 users
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posted by
antiextremism
on May 14, 2007 at 04:29 PM
I want to hear from the high school graduates of 1890 before I comment.
posted by
wlwedd
on Oct 2, 2007 at 12:08 PM
I can understand why someone might want to see this corrected, but to suggest that the error occured "through lack of research, misinformation, or just plain ignorance," seems a bit mean-spirited to me. I can think of several other ways the name might have been wiritten incorrectly, and while they all involve someone making an error, I doubt anyone was trying to change the name of the school. Why do people find it necessary to climb on some high horse just because they notice someone else made a mistake? To recognize that an unintentional mistake has been made is one thing, but to hurl insults and then say, "let's have it correct on the monument," reaks of self-absorption. Do you, Mr. Stewart, never make an occasional error in writing? Do you expect others to gently correct you, or would you prefer they jump on you like flies on...well...you know? Because that's what you did here.
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