to enter the house of his wisdom but rather
leads you to the threshold of your mind.
~Kahlil Gibran
"Board Honors New School With Much-Honored Name: Career of Dr. E.E. Morrison, Physician and Educational Leader, Woven Tightly Into Web of This Whole Community."
New Schools Open for Inspection Tomorrow
Great Bend Herald -
November 11, 1937
...the new E.E. Morrison grade school building and the new Practical Arts building will be open to inspection by the public tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. The two buildings were erected last summer at a cost of $60,000.
Special programs are being held in the city schools during American Education week and this inspection is a part of that program. Teachers will remain in the two schools during the time that the buildings are open, and the public is urged to attend.
Invitations have been sent to parents to visit the schools during the day while their children are in classes and plans are being made for a special night school for parents to start sometime after the first of the year.
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E.E. Morrison Resigns Post - Ends Twenty Years Service At Meeting Monday Night
Great Bend Herald -
December 9, 1937
...The board accepted the decision with regret, knowing that Dr. Morrison had been one of the most ardent supporters of the school systems and would be a great loss to the education system of Great Bend. ...
... a tentative program for the dedication of the new E.E. Morrison Grade school ... sometime early in January and several minor matters were approved.
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Death Takes Dr. Morrison - Professional Leader Did Much for Welfare of Schools
Great Bend Herald -
January 27, 1938
...Without his leadership, it seems certain that Great Bend's excellent educational system would be something less than it is. As president of the school board for many years he served so well that the mark he made on the community's consciousness stands as a memorial that will long outlast the brick and stone in the new school building that bears hs name.
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Principals Reemployed - Board Meeting Follows Dinner Monday Evening
Great Bend Herald -
March 10, 1938
... The Board authorized the building and grounds committee to undertake the laying of a sidewalk around the E.E. Morrison School on that part which is not already covered. Also a sidewalk will extend from the north door to the street.
The committee is to supervise the laying of buffalo grass seed on the east high school yard and in such places on the Morrison school yard as is necessary. Shrubbery will be planted in places that the committee deems advisable.
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Two School Buildings Dedicated Friday Eve
Great Bend Herald -
April 22, 1938
W. T. Markham, state superintendent of public instruction will give the dedicatory address Friday evening, April 22, at the dedication services to be held at the high school auditorium at 8 o'clock for the E.E. Morrison and Practical Arts building.
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Seek Kindergarten for Morrison School
Great Bend Herald -
April 22, 1938
The school board will act June 6 on a petition signed by 14 persons seeking the establishment of a kindergarten class at the E.E. Morrison school. At present, kindergartens are maintained only at the other two grade schools, Washington and Riley.
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Schools to Open With Plant, Personnel, Equipment in Top Shape
Great Bend Tribune -
August 18, 1949
The school children of the city will flock back to their scholarly tasks on Sept. 1 of this year to a new set-up in some cases and greatly improved quarters in others, the result of the now completed school building program begun last year. We have everything in our favor to make this one of the best school years we've ever had. The building program has provided a new eight-room addition at Morrison school, three new rooms at Washington and two new rooms at Riley.
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Last Year For Tuition In Grades
Great Bend Tribune -
August 22, 1949
Everything is in readiness for the opening of schools, two weeks from today.
The Morrison district includes the area north and west of a line running from the west city limits on Broadway to Washington, thence north to 17th street, thence east to Williams and thence north to the school district limits.
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Morrison deed transferred to rec
Great Bend Tribune -
December 9, 2008
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You can teach a student a lesson for a day;
but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity,
he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
~Clay P. Bedford
End of the Road