Eisenhower High School - Crest Yearbook (Blue Island, IL)

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I om highly honored by your invitotion to ollow me to come here todoy in the dedicotion of this school to Americo's youth, the most voluoble osset we hove. Thonk You. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Old Moin Building Eisenhower Compus Building Dwight D. Eisenhower High School Blue lslond, Illinois 1975 Volume 41 Tides of time... Toble of Contents Friendships ......... Being .... .... Couroge .... .... Achievement ....... Potrons ..... .... . 19 103 147 157 235

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Pi' w- pprhv' , J' it ..- as Our Proudest Day , was Blue lsland Community High SchooI's theme for the dedication of the newly built campus building. On October 23, 1950, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then President of Columbia University, honored Blue Island by being the dedica- tion speaker at the ceremony. An estimated 6,000 persons attended the hour long dedication. In 1962, awsecond school, H.L. Richards, was added to District 218 and Blue Island Community High School was named after General Eisenhower. 1975 marks DDE's 25th anniversary. During this time, many changes have occurred. The most recent one is the addition of a third school to District 218. The '75 Crest's pictorial review focuses Qc:-n the many activities that have occurred throughout the Tides of ima .