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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

J.Q. Gant to Built Modern School Building For Glen Raven, Sept. 11, 1919

From the Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Sept. 11, 1919

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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