Friday, March 05, 2021
Pierson Open House Celebrates 87th, and Final, Year
Generations of Clinton residents took part in the Pierson Community Day Celebration May 4 to mark 87 years of educating children—and to mark the closure of the iconic school, which was open for tours.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Pierson School Principal Mrs. Debra Murray and 4th grade teacher Mrs. Kristen Yahwak welcome visitors and volunteers, as well as Cora Deming and Jack Henry Palazzo student volunteers greet visitors at the entrance of the school.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
(Photo by Kelley Fryer/Harbor News | Buy This Photo)
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
(Photo by Kelley Fryer/Harbor News | Buy This Photo)
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Betty Langley Kovel and John Kovel look to see if they can find their kids in the old class photos.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Dianne and Gus Gustafson talk with 4th grade teacher Dana Skidmore in the classroom with Gus came as a student in 1938.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Dianne and Gus Gustafson talk with 4th grade teacher Dana Skidmore in the classroom with Gus came as a student in 1938.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Don Hansen(center) former teacher and student at Pierson talks with his cousin John Krny and his wife Diane about some of the changes in the classrooms since they were kids.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Former students, Kimberly Rice, Laurel Iaccarino and Laura -Anne Hall reminisce.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Visitors had a great time looking at all the class photos up on board throughout the school.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
(Photo by Kelley Fryer/Harbor News | Buy This Photo)
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.Dad, Eliot Keating leans in with son James, to hear students give a bit of history of the library with volunteers, Caitlin Turner and Destiny Speece.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Newspaper clippings from the past were posted.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. A fun class photo board with former Pierson students who have children currently attending, with hints.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. A fun class photo board with former Pierson students who have children currently attending, with hints.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Trevor Snow stands ready to greet visitors to the computer lab wit volunteer Kim Esler.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. Winnie Knapp and Rosmary Gould listen to student Erika Berliner talk about the class room.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo.
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Pierson Community Day Celebration was held on Saturday to mark the 87 years of educating children. The school was open for tours, with food trucks and music in the gazebo. The Morgan School had it's Morgan Rock Band playing under the direction of teacher Ray Smith in the Gazebo.
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