Head Start - Owensboro Public Schools

Hager Preschool Groundbreaking and Celebration

Owensboro's Foust Elementary School | July 30, 1996

The Hager Preschool Center, Owensboro's city-wide preschool facility, was first occupied for its intended purpose on August 20, 1997. The Center will be formally dedicated in mid-October. At that time this page will be updated with photos of the completed facility. It's magnificent! Visit later and see for yourself.

	The new preschool center, for which ground was broken on July 30, 1996. It was completed in July 1997 and occupied in August 1997. The Owensboro Independent School District's Board named the new facility the... Lawrence W. Hager, Jr. Preschool Center

Pictured above are (left) Mr. Hager addressing the July 30, 1996 groundbreaking/celebration and (right) Mr. (Larry) and Mrs. (Frankie) Hager posing following the celebration with AACS Executive Director Ron Logsdon

The Lawrence and Augusta Hager Educational Foundation organized and sponsored the groundbreaking and celebration.

Following are some scenes from the July 1996 groundbreaking and celebration...

Dr. Cheryl King addresses the crowd attending the groundbreaking. Seated (from left to right) are: AACS Board Chair Dr. Ellen Dugan-Barrette,
Executive Director Ron Logsdon, School Board Chair Dr. Tom Maddox, Superintendent Dr. Bill Chandler, Mistress of Ceremonies
Elizabeth (Libby) Alexander, Preschool Principal Pat Jones, and AACS Head Start Director Aubrey Nehring.

The children join in with AACS and Owensboro Public Schools leaders in breaking ground for the new preschool facility.

The children sing "It's a Small World" and "We Are the World"; other children (pictured above is Tyra Goodwin, the daughter of AACS Free To Grow
employee Lisa Curry) also presented each attendee a miniature shovel as a commemorative of the groundbreaking.

AACS Executive Director Ron Logsdon poses (left) with Libby Alexander, mistress of ceremonies and Trustee of the Hager Foundation,
which sponsored the event, and (right) Principal Pat Jones and Dr. Cheryl King, first principal of the former Mary Mitchell Preschool
which set the model for the new facility.

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