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Metadata
Title |
Roosevelt Historical Plaque Board of Education |
Object Name |
Digital, Photograph |
Description |
Roosevelt School historical plaque showing Board of Education. A. D. 1920 Board of Education: F.C. Harllow, President. S.A. Lockman, Secretary. W.M. Christy, Treasurer. C.B. Miller, Trustee. J.C. Boursn, Trustee. Fisher Brothers, Architects. M. B. Hungerford, Contractor. J.K. Bennett, Superintendent of Construction. A. D. 1920-1928 Board of Education: S.S. Crown, President. Clyde E. Fellows, Secretary. Archie Harper, Treasurer. J. Stanley Wright, Trustee. Russell W. Parry, Trustee. Frank E. Dodge, Superintendent. robert. O. Derrick, Inc. Architect. John Rac, General Contractor. A.D. 1960 Renovations Board of Education: Mrs. Frances M Leaf, Secretary. Edwin R. Dreyer, Vice-President. Kern H. Murphy, Secretary. John c. Hall, Treasurer. jack A. Shuler, Trustee. Lief A. Hougan, superintendent. Tarapata MacMahon, Architects. Paul H. Johnson, Inc., contactor. A.D. 1977 Renovations Board of Education: Robert L. Plaunt, president. James L. Rosenbaum, Vice-President. Sharyl M. Lubbers, Secretary. Jerome Acker, Treasurer. Lois C. Esbrook, Trustee. Leornard L. Grossman, Trustee. Barbara Robinson, Trustee. Dr. Jerry J. Herman, Superintendent. Wakely, Kushner Associates, Inc., Architect. J.C. Neilsen Co., General Contractor |
Year Range from |
1920 |
Year Range to |
1977 |
Subjects |
School board members School boards Schools |
Collection |
Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society |
Catalog Number |
2023.1.337 |
Accession number |
2023.1.337 |
Place |
Roosevelt School, 2065 Cass Lake Rd, Keego Harbor, MI 48320 |
Provenance |
This photo was part of the research for the "Our School History" project. Roosevelt School, 1920. Named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt School, named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt, opened in 1920 in the Evergreen Villa subdivision, serving kindergarten through tenth grade in six classrooms. Grades eleven and twelve were added in subsequent years. The high school graduating Class of 1929 included five students. Over the years, many additions and renovations allowed Roosevelt to adapt to increasing enrollment and technology advancements. Roosevelt has also been the site of educational innovations including the district’s first Head Start program (1965), the district’s Magnet program for academically-gifted students (1978), the district’s first all-day kindergarten (1996), and the district’s first STEAM campus (2015). Roosevelt housed kindergarten through sixth grade after the new high school was built at the corner of Orchard Lake and Commerce Roads in 1955. With the move to a "6-8" middle school model in 1971, Roosevelt transitioned to preschool through fifth grade. The school closed when a piece of the original plaster ceiling fell in an empty classroom on June 2, 2022. Students learned remotely for the remainder of the semester. Students from Roosevelt were moved to Abbott Middle School at the start of the 2022-2023 school year. In late 2023, the West Bloomfield school board announced a decision to demolish the original Roosevelt building as part of a plan to consolidate the district’s five elementary schools into four. The decision has been met with opposition from the community, including Heart of the Lakes Community, Inc., a non-profit group that filed a lawsuit against WBSD in an attempt to stop demolition of the building. The community’s fight to save the Roosevelt building is ongoing. |