Robert G. Heft, the "Betsy Ross" of America's 50-star flag, has died. In 1958, a history teacher assigned Heft and his classmates at Lancaster High School to each redesign the national banner to ...

When the caller asked for Robert G. Heft, the teenager said, “Yes, but you can call me Bob.” He didn't realize he was speaking with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Heft's high school project ...

Robert G. Heft, who designed America's 50-star flag as a high school project in 1958 and lived in Thomas Township upon his retirement from teaching, died Saturday. Heft, whose design overtook the ...

Robert G. Heft ... Funeral Home says Heft died Saturday at a hospital in Saginaw. A cause of death wasn't immediately available. Heft made the flag in 1958 as part of a high school history ...

Robert G. Heft once ... anything special," Heft said recently. "I consider myself just a regular person." Last fall, Heft put up the 48-year-old banner that he sewed as a high school history ...

(AP) - Robert G. Heft ... Funeral Home said Heft died today at a hospital in Saginaw. A cause of death wasn't immediately available. Heft made the flag in 1958 as part of a high-school history ...

In 1958, 17-year-old Robert G. Heft was living with his grandparents in Ohio when he was given a school project to design ... there’s just no high season. Suppose now you are a $5.50 nylon ...

And for the flag we know today, that arrangement was designed by a high schooler—before ... On July 4th, 1960, Heft went to the White House to see his school project design become the official ...