Saturday, May 27, 2000
Blue Ash dedicates city tower
Tribute panels unveiled
By Walt Schaefer
The Cincinnati Enquirer
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HONOREES
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• Teddy Roosevelt, (1858-1919), 26th President • Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1919), industrialist, philanthropist
• Martin Luther King Jr., (1929-1968) clergyman, civil rights leader
• Henry Ford, (1863-1947) automobile manufacturer
• Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865), 16th President
• Albert Sabin (1906-1993) and Jonas Salk (1914-1995), polio vaccine developers
• Ben Franklin (1706-1790) statesman, philosopher
• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), suffragist
• William Procter (1862-1934) and James Gamble (1836-1932), soap business founders
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third President
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist
• Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) athlete
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President
• Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948) aviation pioneers
• Charles Drew (1904-1950) physician
• Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809), William Clark (1770-1838) explorers; and Sakagawea (unknown) Indian guide
• Robert Frost (1874-1963), poet
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone
• George Washington (1732-1799), first President
• Clara Barton (1821-1912) founder, American Red Cross
• Walt Disney (1901-1966) producer, animated motion pictures/cartoons
• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) abolitionist
• Thomas Edison (1847-1931) inventor
• Mark Twain (1835-1910) writer
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BLUE ASH — Granite etchings of Americans who made a difference in this country were unveiled Friday night as the city dedicated its Millennium Tower.
The memorial panels show and honor Americans of the past, and 29 people are recognized on the 24 finished panels. There is room for 24 more.
A committee of 10 Blue Ash residents was selected and took more than a year to choose the honorees, said City Manager Marvin Thompson, who served as group moderator but did not vote on the selections. A criterion was that honorees must have been dead for at least five years. No elected official or city employee was named to the committee.
“They really came together on their decisions pretty well. They were encouraged to give us a very widespread representation of American life. That was the hardest part of this,” Mr. Thompson said.
“We wanted to get ethnic diversity, as well as a representation of all walks of life and eras of American history — sports, science, medicine, business,” and others, said committee member Bev Mussari, 56, who is active in the Blue Ash Historical Society and the Blue Ash Womens' Club. “We wanted to recognize people who contributed greatly to the United States, but also who were role models to the world.”
The tower is another addition to the city's center east of Kenwood Road between Cooper and Hunt roads.
Gary Carson, a nationally known Cincinnati artist who specializes in granite etchings, was retained to complete the panels. Mr. Carson also created the granite etchings at the city's Veterans' Memorial, Mr. Thompson said.
The tower cost $220,000 — with $70,000 of that used to buy five brass bells and clocks from The Verdin Co. and another $70,000 for the etchings, Mr. Thompson said.
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