
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 12, 1990                   TAG: 9004130827
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S/24   EDITION: METRO 
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REUNION GROUP OPPOSES RAZING OF CARVER SCHOOL

The G.W. Carver Reunion Association appealed to the Salem School Board Tuesday not to exercise its option of tearing down the 51-year-old building, now home of one of Salem's four elementary schools.

School officials have determined that, although the building is structurally sound, it does not meet the standards of the city's other elementary schools.

The school system is considering three options for Carver - total renovation (favored by the association), use the building for another purpose and expand the other schools to handle the extra students or raze the building and build another school.

Carver was built in 1939 as a combined elementary and high school for Roanoke County blacks. It was integrated in 1966 as Salem Intermediate School and became an elementary school in 1977.

by CNB