Saturday was the dedication of Swann Middle School, formerly known as Aycock. The above photo features the crowd on Cypress Street waiting for the gray tarp to be removed and for the Swann name to appear above the front door. Mr. Alan Duncan, Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Education acknowledged in his speech that the renaming of the school was not taken lightly and that much dialog and input from stakeholders was taken into careful consideration before this change was made. In his nineteen years on the board, this is the first time the name of one of our Guilford County schools has had a name change.
If you read the article in yesterday's News and Record, you will know that Dr. Swann was a man of integrity who loved children and who had a special talent for getting people to work together. He came to the Greensboro City Schools in 1960 after serving in the U.S. Army. He began as a health and science teacher, served as a principal, held several administrative positions in the Central Office, and served as the first deputy superintendent of the Guilford County Schools during the merger of the city and county schools in the area. Dr. Swann had an impeccable reputation and was tirelessly dedicated to children. Students at Swann Middle School can wear his name on their orange, black and white uniforms, t-shirts, and other school-spirit items with great pride. Even though school doesn't start until Wednesday, a large percentage of the Swann school population was there to participate in the program of dedication.
He sounds like an ideal person to name a school after.
Posted by: William Kendall | Monday, August 21, 2017 at 11:52 AM