MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Homer Pittard Campus School’s annual open house, held Tuesday,
April 18, welcomed current and former students, faculty, staff and friends to
the historic facility on East Lyle Street.
This year’s theme,
“Celebrate the ’60s,” showcased a special decade’s worth of school and world
history, and the annual “Stroll Through the Decades” featured fifth-graders
portraying historic world leaders, including:
- musicians Aretha
Franklin, Elvis Presley and all four Beatles.
- athletes Muhammad
Ali and Jesse Owens.
- computer magnates
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
- American Red Cross
founder Clara Barton.
- former U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
- civil rights
activists Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rosa
Parks and Nelson Mandela.
- U.S. presidents from
Teddy Roosevelt to the present day, as well as first ladies ranging from
Eleanor Roosevelt to Laura Bush.
MTSU
President Sidney A. McPhee was among the dozens of visitors
admiring the historic displays and the students' work. He
also joined multiple generations of the late Clarence E. “Pete”
Greever’s family for a special moment of recognition for Greever’s MTSU
career, including sons Don and Barry Greever, daughter-in-law Janet
Greever, grandson Tom Greever and great-grandson Braxton
Greever.
Pete Greever, a
professor of education at MTSU from 1956 to 1975 and an educator for 37
years as well as a respected artist, was a U.S. Navy veteran and also set up
the first greenhouse at MTSU. He died in 2000 at age 86.
Braxton, who attends
Campus School, is now the fourth generation of Greevers affiliated with MTSU.
Campus School, which
is celebrating its 88th year, is a K-5 teaching laboratory school jointly
operated by MTSU and the Rutherford County Schools. Pete Greever, who
specialized in curriculum and instruction, helped train future teachers at
Campus School.
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