Alumni, families, friends, neighbors, faculty and students are invited to help celebrate Phelps Luck Elementary School's 20th Anniversary on Thursday from 9:30 a.m to 1 p.m.
Students will be the official guides during the Open House. Alumni can meet and greet teacher Arlete Hurt, who taught second grade when the school opened and has now "passed" to fourth grade.
Barbara Garnes is current principal, and Betty King came from retirement to be her temporary "acting principal".
It is hoped that all former principals, David MacPherson (Thunder Hill Elementary), Thomas Bruner (Swansfield Elementary), Don VanOstrand (Human Resources, Howard County Public School System), Barry Taylor, (Atholton Elementary) and John Wineke (Northfield Elementary) will be present to reminiscence with former students.
Mr. MacPherson remembers visiting the school before it opened. "There were no walls or partitions to separate classrooms. It was the first 'open design' to be used in Howard County,' he said.
For Information, call 313-6886.
Kindergarten students at Stevens Forest Elementary School will attend their "Author's Luncheon" at the school June 11.
Parents, grandparents, families and friends are invited to hear students read one of their books. Children in the morning classes will read at 10:30 a.m. and the afternoon class will read at 2:30 p.m.
Each student has written and illustrated five books during the school year; some have included "invented spelling."
After the "readings", the audience and authors will celebrate with refreshments while perusing a display of the students' books, which were written with the guidance of kindergarten teachers Michelle Kupiec and Grace Derenberger.
The student-authors are: Patrick Bennett, Christina Boussy, Shannon Cummins, Jenny Keddell, Johann Kim, Scott Kimber, Steven Manis, Tyler Selby, Crystal Starace, Amanda Thiem, Jessica Vallamor, Paige Walter, Amanda Wilson, Jon Bellora, Jeremi Lewis, Merry Avant-Pybas, Rachael Beroes-Dodson, Robbie Black, Jamie Buonoito, Jessie Dexheimer, Kelley Dispenza, Leanne Estabrook, Mookie Golden, Grant Haywood, Kazim Lakhani, Sean Martin, Michael Nathan, Tiffany Pierson, John Stanley, Ursula Stamp, Jerome Bennett, Kristina Zanker; Afternoon Class- Asha Benjamin, Evan Douglas, Shaun Dubick, Andrew Fenner, Elizabeth Harding, Evan Hartranft, Trevor Hawkes, Garrison Hersey, Ashley Johnston, Peter Linton, Amanda Mezei, Timothy Murphy, David Ostrander, Billy Rademacher, Sean Rogers, Marc Schulman, Sara Smith, Brett Strand and Daniel Stryker.
