|
Old School, New School
|
|
|
In
1946, the voters in CCS District No 10 voted to purchase the Hitchcock
farm on South Park Street as the location for a new school. Heated
debates, votes, and fights occurred in 1947 over design and cost of the
new school. Suddenly (some still say
mysteriously)
around 1am on Monday August 18, 1947 the Cambridge School caught fire. By
morning the school was in ruins while the fire smoldered for days. With
the old school gone, progress on the new one should have been fast.
However, when Clarence Coulter, BOE President, laid the cornerstone of the
new school on September 30, 1950 no agreement had yet been reached on the
final design or cost. For four years students attended classes in churches
and businesses. It wasn't until June 1952 that the first class graduated
from the new CCS. The photo shows Clarence placing a time capsule inside
the cornerstone. Want to know what's inside the time capsule? You'll have
to wait until the next article to find out.
|
|
|
|
Old School Burning.
|
