Planning for a Community School in our area continues with hopes for an actual program to begin next fall.
On May 11 the Community School Board elected Acting Chairman, Jane Davis chairman, and Rick Bender secretary for one year terms. The Board also established the following policies:
1) The Community School is to strive to fill any educational vacuum within the community by enlarging the educational opportunities available to residents.
2) The program is to be run on a cost free basis with all the limitations this will cause. There will be no actual fee for courses offered. In certain courses supplies needed would have to be purchased by the individual.
The Board feels that the community has enough workable resources to enable such a school to be self sustaining.
3) All Board meetings are to be open meetings with discussions open to all present.
On May 13 the Board met at St. Roch’s Grade School with interested citizens of the area. Juanita Martin, coordinator for the Hamilton School Voluntary Improvement Program, explained the VIP program to the Board.
The following committees were formed and chairmen appointed:
1) Curriculum Committee, Chairman Clarice Hayes, to provide needed and meaningful courses.
2) Faculty Committee, Chairman, Doug McKee, to secure and recommend teachers.
3) Community Relations, Chairman, Loretta Lewis, to be responsible for public relations, with an immediate task of determining the educational needs and resources of the community.
4) Building Committee, Chairman Prentiss Davis, to examine and secure classroom space as needed.
5) Equipment Committee, Chairman Mike MacGrath, to acquire needed educational supplies.
Originally published in The Paper, June 1970.
