PORT ANGELES – When children formerly enrolled at Fairview School arrive at the redesignated Roosevelt Elementary School this morning, the bell that has come to symbolize their former school will be waiting for them.
The bell was the last part of the Fairview campus to move to Roosevelt, itself reconfigured from a middle school in a shift of campuses caused by declining enrollments.
All that remains at Fairview’s Lake Farm Road campus in the eastern reaches of the Port Angeles School District are a few trees from the orchard and the empty shell of the school building.
The trees are being maintained by a volunteer, but should that ever fall through, they will be moved to the Roosevelt campus, district Superintendent Gary Cohn said.
The bell will be waiting for the students to begin a new semester in a new school building.
The sign which once identified “Roosevelt Middle School” now just says “Roosevelt.”
“I said that was my ironic sense of humor,” Principal Doug Hayman said.
“I told them not to put up the ‘elementary school’ part in case we get changed again.”
Hayman, like the bell, moved from the Fairview principalship to the same position at Roosevelt Elementary.
