# Who/What were your schools named after? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001 "2002-06-08T20:00:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/41 "2002-06-09T18:08:52Z")
Oh – university: The state. [The answers: Ichabod Crane, Martin Van Buren, Martin H. Glynn, and Mississippi.] ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/42 "2002-06-09T18:47:46Z")
Multiple elementary schools: K-2: Neighborhood. 3: Somebody called “E. Barbour Hutchinson.” I still have no idea who he was. 4-6: A different neighborhood. Middle school: Poet (Langston Hughes). High school: Yet another neighborhood. College: Colonial-era, named after the British monarchs of the time (this should suffice to identify it for the curious). Grad school: The state, which is named after yet another British monarch. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/43 "2002-06-09T19:08:30Z")
Preschool: Presumably, the location in the city (Central School for the Young Years) Elementary: The Confederacy’s most famous general (Robert E. Lee) Junior high: U.S. President and originator of the League of Nations (Woodrow Wilson) High school: Famous African-American educator (Booker T. Washington) College: German Lutheran clergyman and philanthropist (Johann Friedrich Oberlin) Grad school #1: The city it’s in (University of Houston) Grad school #2: A Catholic saint (University of St. Thomas) Grad school #3: The state it’s in (University of Montana) ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/44 "2002-06-09T19:23:38Z")
K-8 (it is now a middle school): It honors pioneering educator Electa Quinney, recognized as Wisconsin’s first “public school” teacher. She taught American Indian and white children at a tuition-free school, which opened in 1828 at a Presbyterian mission in Kaukauna. 9-12 (the building is now a middle school): The city it is in (Kaukauna High School) 13-17 The State and city (UW-Platteville) Brian ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/45 "2002-06-09T20:20:45Z")
3 Elementary: (Lowell, Jordan, and Starbucks) I don’t know who or what they were named after. I don’t think the schools even exist anymore. It’s a pity as Lowell was, without a doubt, the best school I attended (k-4). High School: Town College: State, Town Grad: A rich Philadelphian Grad: State I have an aunt who had a school named after _her_ on her retirement as a teacher: The Gladys Dart School, in Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/46 "2002-06-09T20:50:56Z")
Elementary school: the guy who donated the land for the school to be built on and his ancestor Middle school: the community I live in High school: the name of the county it’s in and a direction. (There’s four high schools in the county, North, South, East, and Central. West was taken by a middle school that is now closed, so that’s why it wasn’t used for a high school.) jessica ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/47 "2002-06-10T00:46:36Z")
my primary (elementary) school was named after the town. my high school used to be named after the town, but then changed its name (as all high schools changed into ‘colleges’) to the area in which its in my university was named after one of Melbourne’s early governors. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/48 "2002-06-10T05:25:08Z")
Elementary: A saint. Catholic school, of course. Middle and High school: The guy who donated the land they built the school on, and who owned all the land around it. College: The geographic location in the state. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/49 "2002-06-10T08:13:17Z")
all schools: Maria Montessori ---
**Author:** ![zephonith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@zephonith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephonith)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001/50 "2002-06-10T10:43:28Z")
primary: named after a racehorse. i kid you not. they even told us quite specifically that it wasn’t after the historical figure of the same name. intermediate: name of a flower. the word literally means “yellow” we were luckier than another intermediate, which had a similar, if slightly different name which translated to “yellow water” high school: named after the suburb its in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-were-your-schools-named-after/113001.md?page=2)