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by nedrylandJP 737 days ago
There is a "high tech middle school" with his namesake in Boca Raton, FL, next to the former 1960s IBM R&D complex.

https://www.palmbeachschools.org/DonEstridgeMiddle

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Reading Boca Raton reminded me, they used the names of cities close to the offices for the internal names for products. I co-oped at IBM in Austin in the late 1980s and we tested the new models of PC Jr/Portable/PS2/peripherals and the internal codenames were stuff like Boca Raton and Cedar Key (which none of us got until our boss told us) but I can no longer remember which was which anymore.
Well, TIL. When I see a school named after someone who is not widely famous I assume they were an educator or politician.
Alonzo Mourning and his ex-wife have a North Miami HS named after them.