Frank W. Cyr

(1900-1995) born near Franklin, Franklin County. Educator, administrator, originator of safety standards and yellow color for school buses in 1939, an authority on rural education, an early advocate of creating national standards for curricula while keeping the authority to teach them at the local level, is known as "father of the yellow school bus". Consult NRTA Journal, July-August 1981, p. 38 and New York Times obituary, August 4, 1995, p. A-25 and Franklin County /NE/Chronicle, August 8, 1995, pp. 1, 4, 11.

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