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Seriously, try it. And we continue with our American stories. Our next story is about a 17-year-old kid named Bob Heft. who designed the fifty star American flag We fly proudly. To this very day, Here's Greg Hengler.
with the story. After learning about Betsy Ross, you probably didn't give much thought to how the subsequent U.S. flags were designed. It might seem like a no-brainer flag makers just added a new star for every new state, right?
Well, it turns out not that simple. Each new flag has a very careful design. and the arrangement of the stars must be precise and symmetrical. And for the flag we know today, That arrangement was designed by a junior in high school from Ohio. It was 1958.
and America only contained 48 United States. The flag at the time featured six rows of eight stars. Bob Heff's history teacher assigned a class project where each student had to bring in something they made. Bob Heft loved flags. Then he loved politics.
So, having been inspired by the Betsy Ross story the class just studied, and seeing the news that Alaska was poised to become our nation's 49th state. with Hawaii soon behind. Heff decided to make a 50-star flag. Here's Bob. an American history class, we had to do an outside of class project.
We could make or do whatever we wanted. Like a science fair or something like that, you bring the project in. The Betsy Ross story uh intrigued me. And my mom and dad uh they had a a forty eight star flag they received as a wedding present. which of course meant a lot to them.
Well, I took a scissors and cut it up. Heph's mother walked in from the kitchen and found him cutting up their family flag and promptly began scolding him. She told his father when he got home, and Heft received another tongue lashing. I had always been in the Boy Scouts and I had always been patriotic, Heff told the Lancaster Eagle Gazette in 2007. They wanted to know why I would turn on the flag.
I had never sown in my life. I watched my mom sow, but I'd never sown. And since making the flag of her country, I've never sown again.
So anyhow, we get to class. I had my flag on the teacher's desk. And the teacher said, what's this thing on my desk?
So I got up and I approached the desk and I'm shaking like a leaf and he said, why you got too many stars? You don't even know how many states we have. and it gave me the grade of a B minus.
Now that a B minus isn't that bad of a grade.
However, uh a good friend of mine, Jim, he picked up five leaves off the ground. He's taping these leaves down to the notebook and the labeling, Elm, Hickory, Maple. and the teacher gave him the grade of an A. I was really I was upset. The teacher said, if you don't like the grade, get it accepted in Washington.
Then come back and see me. I might consider changing the grade. Bob arrived home that day with his class project. And I had it in a plastic bag and I threw it on the sofa and my mother came in, she said, Supper's ready. I said, I'm not hungry.
She said, what's wrong? I said, and I never talked about a teacher. I said, the stupid teacher gave me a B minus on the flag. And then she really hacked me. I said, that's more than I'd have given you, because she was really dead set against this.
two years later. I'd written 21 letters to the White House, made 18 phone calls.
Now you can imagine when my mom got the phone bell. What's this number? I said, well, Mom, that's the White House.
So anyhow, I got this call and it said, now the President of the United States is calling you later on today.
Well, at that time Eisenhower was president, And he comes on the phone and he says, is this Robert G. Heft? And I said, Yes, sir, but you can just call me Bob. And he says, I want to know the possibility of coming to Washington, D.C. on July 4th for the official adoption of the new flag.
Bob received this call from President Eisenhower at his new place of employment. Here's what happened next.
Well, I've been at this company 11 days. I said, well, wait a minute, my boss is standing here. I reached down, pushed the red button on the phone, put the President of the United States on hold. What are you doing? I said, I've got to talk to her.
He said, you just put the President of the United States on hold. I said, he wants me to come to Washington. He said, Well, tell him you'll be there. I said, Look, I don't have any sick leave. I don't have any vacation because you know your first job out of high school, you don't want to mess up and just lose it.
And he said, Get him back on the phone. We'll work out the details. We'll charge it off to executive leave or something, but get him back. He was really upset. And we did a lot of military contracts.
I think they probably thought, here's this. The kid that's been working there for 11 days is going to mess up future contracts, you know, putting the president on hold. And so I picked up the phone, hit the right button. Put the phone number. Dwight, are you still there?
Because, you know, I didn't know how you properly address it. And they're cracking up. Oh, my Lord, here's Bob talking to Buddy Dwight and stuff. Years following his talk with Dwight, Bob preserved this historic moment and paid a visit to his old teacher. And so I have the grade book, it's encased in plastic, it's kept in a bank.
My teacher, he said, I guess if it's good enough for Washington, it's good enough for me. I hereby change the grade to an A. Decades after, Kept inspired people young and old with his follow-your-dreams story. He became a high school teacher. college professor.
and a seven-term mayor of Napoleon, Ohio. He spoke extensively, as many as two hundred engagements a year. and visited the White House 14 times under nine presidents. Heff died on December 12, 2009 at the age of 68. But his legacy survives every time we fly his fifty star creation.
And if the U.S. ever adds a 51st state, Heff's got that flag covered, too. Back in 1958, he designed a 51-star version that uses six rows of stars. alternating between rows of nine and eight. This would make Heft the only person to design two United States flags.
Bob said in 2007 An idea doesn't do any good. if you don't pursue it. And a terrific job in the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. And what a story Bob Hefts is. And was Class project assignment, basically a high school class project.
and American history. And my goodness, be still my heart. We should have more like these. The story of American Imagination. The story of the Oh, Bob Heft.
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