I am desperately searching for photos of OLD elementary schools, with or without the children, (preferable WITH the children) in Madison, Washington, and Sebastian Counties in Arkansas. Please reply if you can help me at snyder5200@sbcglobal.net Thank you sincerely, Jean Snyder -----Original Message----- From: armadiso-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:armadiso-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of misam@aug.com Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:20 PM To: armadiso@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ARMADISO] Saving Old Main Building - Huntsville High School I have attempted to change my e-mail address from misam@aug.com to mtisam@comcast.net but apparently unsuccessfully. Please update your records. Thanks, Michael Isam (Seals) -- "Gravity is the Letter of the Law, but Levity is the Intent" C 2002-2007 Michael Isam Quoting PJ Rogers <rmadisoncounty@gmail.com>: > The following info is from emails received this week re: saving Old > Main. I have uploaded a photo of the old building (HSVS) here: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~armadiso/huntsvillehighschool.jpg > - - - - - - - - - > > You all take note and mail or call in your vote to save this lovely > bit of our heritage. There is a ballot in last week's paper to send > to > the school office. If you don't have the ballot just call them and > voice your opinion on saving the Old HSVS school and not turning it > to > a pile of rubble or sold to someone in another state. > A lot of our grandfathers hand hewed those old stones so help keep > this building from such a sad ending. VOTE and sign our petition > for > it to remain. > PS Send this to others that went to school there and let's get it > going NOW as we don't have a lot of time to beat them to the punch > !!!!!!!! > > - - - - > There is a large group of people working to save the building. > Meeting > this Friday evening , Nov. 30 at 6PM at the High School Cafeteria. > Be > sure to be there to get your votes in !!. Watch the MC Record as it > will have some on it in there. We don't have much time and we need > a > force of interested and concerned people behind this Organization > to > Save Ole Main ! > > Email the Admin. office as to your vote , the address is below. Or > /and call them and state your feelings about the destruction of > this > grand old building !! > > Email: Eagle@hhs.nwsc.k12.ar.us This should get you to the > Administration Office. > > - - - - > Following is the article as it appeared in last week's paper > (Madison > County Record): > > District reaches a final four of facility plans > The Huntsville School District had yet another meeting with the > public, this time discussing a series of options that the district > plans to present to the Arkansas Department of Education next > month. > > Following its failed proposed mileage increase in Sept, the > district > was asked to present its plans for meeting its facilities needs. > The > meeting is scheduled in Little Rock on Dec. 13. > > The district has narrowed down its options to four. The ad can be > found in The Record (and I think on line at the above address) for > two > weeks. and the public is asked to check which option it prefers > along > with which voting precinct they're from. Students will be sent > home > next Monday, yesterday, the same survey. > > Option A is for the district to build a new 8th and 9th grade > junior > high school at its property on Highway 412 Business East. It's the > property that was originally planned to be the home of a new high > school. (the millage increase to build this has been voted down > twice!!!!) > > Option B would add eight classrooms at the Huntsville High School, > the > tearing down of Old Main at the Middle School and moving the 6th > grade > from the Intermediate School to the Middle School. The state would > also pay 58 percent of that total cost. > > (Old Main) is a problem that is going to have to be dealt with > somehow," Superintendent Lievsay said. "To get it restored would be > a > very expensive undertaking, and you end up with an old building. > But, > I also understand the importance of the building." > > Option C would also add eight classrooms to the high school, eight > classrooms to the Intermediate School, and new portable buildings > at > the Middle School. Again, the state would pay for 58 percent of > the > cost. > > Option D is the only one not requiring a vote from the public. It > would add from 8 to 10 portable buildings at HHS, Middle School, > and > Intermediate campuses. The state would not assist in this cost. > - - - - - - - - - - - > > My Note: At present the high school is 9-12 at the building on Hwy > 23 > South. The Intermediate school is 7 and 8 on the hill. And all the > lower grades down where the football field is. I know the ballot > is > only for local voters, but we really need to find a way to save Old > Main. Talk will not do it. I understand the need for more > classrooms > and do not understand why the millage vote did not pass (you know > Madison County). > > Any rich alumni out there willing to pitch in???? > > Dorothy Roberts Dyer > - - - - - - - - - - > _____________________________________________________________ > Madison County, AR Genealogy > http://theaurorareview.com/madcounty/mcindex.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARMADISO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________________________ Madison County, AR Genealogy http://theaurorareview.com/madcounty/mcindex.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARMADISO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message