Beaver Dam Elementary School in Cumberland County celebrates 100 years

ROSEBORO — Hundreds of group associates program to celebrate Beaver Dam Elementary School’s 100th birthday this weekend.

Jeanna Daniels, who’s been the principal at the elementary university for approximately two many years, stated the celebration is an possibility for the group to come jointly and reminisce.

Daniels said the spotlight of the working day will be a online video of previous Beaver Dam lecturers and pupils sharing their beloved memories of the university.

The elementary university is found in the rural component of the county, making it extremely considerable to the inhabitants of Roseboro, who stay and grew up there, she mentioned.

Daniels mentioned Cumberland County Faculties and the local community have performed a excellent job at preserving the 100-calendar year-aged university.

“It’s just wonderful to know that you are in the identical making that was constructed 100 years back and for it to still be in such an immaculate issue … I think that just needs to be identified,” she reported.

Initially, Beaver Dam taught elementary by significant faculty pupils.

For numerous, the faculty is a group assertion piece, Daniels said.

The elementary faculty was crafted in 1922.

The mastering basis for a lot of group associates was developed at the college and which is sizeable, she said.

Mary Alice Underwood, 63, a previous Beaver Dam scholar, who attended Beaver Dam from 1965 to 1971, said four generations of her relatives have attended the school. Her daughter Allison, now 32, attended faculty at Beaver Dam, and now her granddaughter, Stella, 6, attends faculty at Beaver Dam. Underwood’s father also attended.