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The Coweta County voted to name two Coweta
County elementary schools after long-time county teachers and
administrators, at its July 8 regular meeting.
The Board voted to name the new elementary school being built on
Jim Starr Road in northern Coweta County “Brooks Elementary
School,” after former Superintendent Richard Brooks.
The school is currently under construction, and will be opened
in August of 2009.
Brooks retired from the school system in 2002, after 30 years of
service in education in Coweta County Schools and eight years as
Superintendent. He came to Coweta County schools in 1972, first
at Newnan High School, then to the newly-opened O.P. Evans
Junior High School, as an industrial arts teacher. He served as
an assistant principal and principal for many years, before
being named an assistant superintendent in 1986 and
Superintendent in 1994.
The Board also voted to rename the Grantville Elementary School
“Glanton Elementary School,” after long-time Grantville
principal Thomas Glanton.
Grantville Elementary School was opened in 2004. The school’s
first principal – Carole Criswell – retired this year. Katie
Garrett will replace Criswell as the school’s new principal in
the 2008-09 school year.
Grantville’s former elementary school – now Grantville’s
Municipal Center – bore Glanton’s name in honor of his years of
service to education in the city and county. The city building
still bears his name, but the Board’s action will make
Grantville’s school “Glanton” once again as well.
Glanton, now 96, and a veteran of World War II, lives in Newnan.
He came to Grantville’s school in 1933, and soon served the
school as its principal. With the exception of service in the
United States Army Air Force during World War II, Glanton’s
career was spent in the soon-unified county school system and
through the consolidation of the Coweta and Newnan School
System’s in 1969, before his retirement in 1972.
Glanton also served before and after the war in the reserves,
retiring from the Air Force reserves as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Both Brooks and Glanton are both graduates of Auburn University.
Dates for official dedication ceremonies for the schools’
namings will be announced as the school year approaches on
August 6. |
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