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Board considers elementary school name

Posted on December 6, 2007December 6, 2007 by Staff

 

By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education will tonight (Thursday) consider possible names for the district’s tenth elementary school.

The school is under construction on the corner of Eubanks and Dromoland roads and is expected to open in the fall of 2008.

The district’s school naming committee collected public input through an online survey throughout the month of October and received 83 suggested names from 194 people. Morris Grove Elementary was the most suggested name, with 71 votes, followed by Eubanks Elementary, which was suggested by 13 respondents.

The committee will present both Morris Grove and Eubanks as possible names for the board to consider.

Morris Grove was the name of a black school started by Morris Hogan, a freed slave, on a site adjacent to the site of the new elementary school. The school’s original structure still stands.

Other suggested names for the new elementary school include: Chapel Hill North, Misael Martinez, Hogan Farms, Howard and Lillian Lee, Old Rogers, Neil Pedersen, Charles Stewart, Hale, Alton Cheek, Northwest, Livy Ludington, Dromoland, Tar Heel Cove, Maya Angelou, Charles Kuralt, Twin Creeks, Mildred Council, Harmony, Edith Wiggins, Anna Mercer McLean, Ronald Reagan, Green Planet, Hilliard Caldwell, Chapel Hill West, Virginia Dare, Euland, Burton W. Stewart, Forest View, Thomas Clayton Wolfe, Charles Drew, Hugh Banks, Klara Calderon-Guthe, Bill and Ida Friday, Maple View, William R. Davie, Strowd Roses, North Chapel Hill, Moeser, Northside, Edu-Saurus, Roy Williams, Piedmont, Orange, John Edwards, James Taylor, Levi Coffin, Eleanor Kinnaird, Pearman, Mahatma Ghandi, Carolina Drought, Eudro, Roadrunner, Bolin Creek, Rosa Parks, Blooming, Bill Gates, Alta Vista, Karen Reid, Dreamland, Deshera Mack, New Well, Carr Mill, Sunnyside, Oliver Smithies, Julian Carr, Sherry Norris, Landfill, Century, Amy Rickard, Julie Dermody, Elm, Luther Hodges, Joe Herzenberg, Mohandas Ghandi, Elizabeth Cotton, Banks, Arlene Rosenfeld, Infinity, Halcyon and Anne Sullivan.

The board will review the proposed names and make a final decision at a later meeting.

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