Mr. Gant to Build
School House for Glen Raven District
The people of the Glen Raven school district in Alamance
county will no longer have to put up with an inadequate school building. Supt.
M.C. Terrell announces that Mr. J.Q. Gant had purchased a beautiful site, which
will furnish ample playground and purposes to build a modern school building
suited to the conditions of the community, and deed the same to the County
Board of Education. Mr. Gant’s only request (and it is not a condition) is that
the people will furnish the building. He wisely suggests this, because he feels
that they will take more interest if they have a part in the work.
Some of the material is already on the ground and it is
hoped that the building will be ready before Christmas. School will be opened
in the old building.
This generous act on the part of Mr. Gant is deeply
appreciated by the County Board of Education and the patrons of the school.
It was proposed that this new building be called the Gant
School, but Mr. Gant modestly declined to have either the school or the
district known by his name. But an appreciative people will not readily forget,
and in the hearts of the patrons and in the hearts of the boys and girls who
attend this school, it will be known as the “Gant School,” although officially
entered in the records as Glen Raven School.
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