Best Name for New Madison School: Jeffrey Erlanger

We've got until Monday to nominate names for the new far Westside school. So far we've got:

Badger Prairie, West Side, Valley View, Linden Park, Clarence H. Beebe, Amy Elizabeth Biehl, Rachel Carson, Carrie Chapman Catt, Dr. Anthony R. Curreri, Howard M. Temin, Hermine Sauthoff Davidson, James Doty, Jeffrey Erlanger, William T. Evjue, Thomas E. Fairchild, Betty Franklin-Hammonds, Joseph Goodrich, Alice Hough, Don Hunt, Steve Irwin, Coretta Scott King, Pearl Leroux, Mark Maida, Thurgood Marshall, Michael McKinney, Milt McPike, Anna Mae Mitchell, Gaylord Nelson, Paul J. Olson, William Proxmire, Vinnie Ream, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Fred Rogers, Nathan J. Vacho, Carl H. Waller, Reggie White, Bong-Sijan Medal of Honor Elementary, Forward Elementary, WayWord, Peace, and RPA (Romanized Popular Alphabet).

From this list, there's one name that leaps out: Jeffrey Erlanger.

For those new to Madison, here's Jeff's story.

Here's where to nominate someone.

- Barry Orton

Comments

[james wigderson]

Robert Fassnacht

[Brenda Konkel]

I gotta go with Betty Franklin-Hammonds.
She had a big influence in my early political life.

[Barry Orton]

James, I think that comment could be termed a classic troll, which gets no response.

Brenda, Betty F-H influenced a lot of people. A fine choice, but no Jeff Erlanger.

[mgm]

It will always be known as the Vang Pao Elementary School to some, a reminder of how incompetent the Madison School Board has a tendency to be.

[Alan james archer]

I am lobying for Clarence H beebe... he was my great grandfather! And he was a great and very philonthropic man. many people till this day have great things to say about him. and he passed from this earth in 1968. that would be the coolest thing for me to see a school named after him!
Alan Jame Archer