Talk:Nathan Eckstein

A fact from Nathan Eckstein appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that as a Seattle School Board member during World War I, German-born Nathan Eckstein bowed to pressure to drop German language classes in Seattle Public Schools?

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And so??

What did the guy do that made him so useful then? D. J. Cartwright (talk) 04:03, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read the list of civic involvements? I could lengthen it from the sources, but after a while it gets to be a bit of a laundry list.- Jmabel | Talk 05:27, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, see Schwabacher Brothers for the importance to Seattle of the company he was running. - Jmabel | Talk 05:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see from the timestamp that you may have seen the article when I had just posted a one-paragraph stub. When I'm writing this much, I save my work periodically. - Jmabel | Talk 05:30, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]