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3 <br />From: Kim Hoke ~khoke@chccs. <br />To: ocmail.ocmail(BBLYTHE) <br />Date: 11/16/99 3:19pm <br />Subject: Fwd(6): groundbreaking <br />k12.nc.us> <br />,~~' `~~ <br />-_ <br />.. -~, <br />_; ,, , , <br />~,! ; r~' <br />for Smith Middle School <br />Beverly-I just realized I had not filled in the blanks below! Alice is <br />planning to join us and make a few comments. Can you also share with the <br />manager and key county staff? Many thanks! Kim <br />We would love to have the Orange County Board_of County Commissioners and <br />the Manager attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the new middle school <br />and we apologize for the late notice. <br />The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education plans a groundbreaking <br />ceremony for the construction of the district's fourth middle school: the <br />R.D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School. The groundbreaking is set for <br />Wednesday, November 17 at 12 noon. The new school will be located on land <br />adjacent to Seawell Elementary School and Chapel Hill High School creating <br />a K-12 campus, which includes 2,000 square feet designated for use by the <br />UNC School of Education. The groundbreaking will begin with comments in <br />the media center of Seawell Elementary School, and the groundbreaking <br />ceremony itself will occur just off the bus driveway entrance to the <br />school. (Visitors can park in the bus circle .for the groundbreaking <br />ceremony.) <br />~- <br />Although the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are well known for their <br />collaboration with other organizations and institutions, Smith Middle <br />School opens a new era in school collaboration with partners from these <br />institutions and governmental entities: Orange County Board of County <br />Commissioners, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the town <br />of Chapel Hill, and the town of Carrboro. The new school and the larger <br />K-12 campus are unique because they bridge property within the towns of <br />Chapel Hill and Carrboro as well as land which is being leased from UNC. <br />The school is named for R.D. and Euzelle Smith, veteran teachers who <br />together devoted 75 years of their lives to local education. R.D. was also <br />a school administrator and served for 20 years as a member of the Chapel <br />Hill Town .Council. <br />Smith Middle School, which will contain 140,000 square feet of space and <br />is projected to cost $19.8 million, is the fourth middle school in the <br />district. Fields that. will be constructed as a part of the project are <br />being supported, in part, by the town of Carrboro and Orange County and <br />will be used for recreation and parks programs when the fields are not in <br />use by the school. <br />At a later date, the site also contains space that is set aside for a wing <br />that may be added by the UNC School of Education. <br />