Excerpt from the January 2013 GHS ’70 Newsletter
On Sunday, January 20, Garrett High School hosted a dedication
and open house for the new high school, which was completed in December.
Here you see part of a technology center
with many more computers than are seen here – I wanted a close view so you
could see the giant whiteboard. But these whiteboards aren’t these children’s
grandparents’ whiteboards; they are digital and can be written to per Ipads ...
… Or can be used for large-scale
presentation of internet pages, as you see here next to our own Alice Runion Jones, whom I ran into in
a different classroom.
Alice
is currently working at Foamex in Auburn, with Dave Campbell, who is also the sound man for the Big Caddy Daddy band.
Mike Rhodes was there at the open house as well.
Of course there is still more to school
than technology and classes - this great view is from a second story window …
And equally impressive is the visionary
integration of technological empowerment with a deep commitment to Garrett heritage.
The classroom and hall walls are simply laced with heritage paintings,
photographs, documents, and artifacts such as Garrett’s 1934 FFA (Future Farmers of America) charter and
an original drum purchased in the 1920s when the first GHS band was organized.
Here you see a painting by a Neil or
Neal Robinson of Auburn, which was donated to the school by Garrett’s class of
’74.
And yet there is more than can be seen in this project; it bespeaks a
profound commitment to learning that will provide a strategic edge in
recruiting future faculty and staff, and an edge when regional families make
future location decisions when they need or want to move. This is a town with a
future!
Future newsletters will contain
additional information, photos from the open house, and notes from an interview
the school Principal Matthew A Smith has promised me; there is a lot more yet
to be seen.
Stephen Rowe welcomes correspondence of all sort at StephenRowe.OriGraphics@yahoo.com
(watch
for the period between Rowe and OriGraphics)
