Longview Independent School District invites all community members to a Sept. 21 open house, celebrating the historic opening of Ned E. Williams Elementary School. The event will be held from 5-6:30pm at the campus, 5230 Estes Parkway. Descendents of Ned E. Williams are expected to be in attendance.
Ned E. Williams Elementary School was among the first new campuses completed under the district’s $266.9 million bond construction project. It is the first Longview ISD campus south of Interstate 20 and serves students in the Elderville-Lakeport, Easton and Lake Buy Propecia Online Cherokee areas. Cynthia Wise is the campus principal.
About Ned E. Williams: Williams was a former slave who in 1883 founded the Gregg County Training School in the Elderville order acomplia Community School District. He later studied under Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver at Bishop College and the Tuskegee Institute. He was an educator for more than 50 years.