WHITE BRICKS IN THE LOBBY

 

In the wall of the lobby of the Jarrettsville Elementary School are four white bricks surrounding the showcase outside the main office. Each brick is engraved with a single year, beginning with 1930, 1931, 1932, to 1933.

According to Bert Wiley, the bricks were remembrances from the graduating classes of those years. J. C. Taylor (tombstone business) provided the white brick and did the engraving.

Fred Fuller, agriculture teacher, took out the red bricks of the outside wall and replaced them with the white ones.

The graduating classes took up a collection to pay for the brick and the engraving.

The bricks were originally located on the front of the old school. When the new building was built in 1977, Fred Baker, then principal, had the bricks removed from the condemned building and placed in the brick wall of main lobby of the new school.


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