{"id":9172,"date":"2017-09-06T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2017-09-04T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T20:04:25","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-cedar-rapids-kennedy-des-moines-hoover-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/50th-anniversary-of-cedar-rapids-kennedy-des-moines-hoover-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"50th anniversary of Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Des Moines Hoover schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='640' height='480' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen src='\/\/player.ooyala.com\/static\/v4\/stable\/4.14.9\/skin-plugin\/iframe.html?ec=tqcmhpYzE6YLgz6_i9emb1wqStnvqFL4&#038;pbid=65279b80531146eea3c65f3510b1c4b9&#038;pcode=oycHE6T-HajMk2Hs9PsZzFdXZduU'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Baby Boom-related expansion of high schools in Iowa began in 1967, when Iowa&#8217;s two largest cities opened new buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Des Moines Hoover <a href=\"http:\/\/whotv.com\/2017\/09\/01\/hoover-high-school-celebrates-50-years\/\">celebrated its anniversary last week<\/a>\u00a0(above). Herbert Hoover, Iowa&#8217;s only native son elected president, had died three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In August 1967, Sen. Ted Kennedy spoke at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/2009\/08\/26\/ted-kennedy-dedicated-cedar-rapids-kennedy-high-school\">opening of Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School<\/a>, named for his brother, President John F. Kennedy. Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/19108805\/Sen-Ted-Kennedy-dedicated-Cedar-Rapids-Iowa-Kennedy-High-in-August-1967\"><em>Gazette&#8217;s<\/em> coverage of the dedication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A half-century after those two opened, Iowa City Liberty High School started classes, this time as a sign of urban sprawl. Hoover and Kennedy remain among the ten <em>newest<\/em> high schools to open in Iowa that were <em>not<\/em> a reconfiguration or relocation of existing ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baby Boom-related expansion of high schools in Iowa began in 1967, when Iowa&#8217;s two largest cities opened new buildings. Des Moines Hoover celebrated its anniversary last week\u00a0(above). Herbert Hoover, Iowa&#8217;s only native son elected president, had died three years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/50th-anniversary-of-cedar-rapids-kennedy-des-moines-hoover-schools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}