6 names picked for schools

Friday, March 29, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

The School Board's committee in charge of recommending names for new schools voted unanimously on six more names.

Those to be honored with new schools named for them are: Arturo Cambeiro, the late architect and founder of the Latin Chamber of Commerce; Elizabeth Wilhelm, former school nurse, now deceased; Robert Foster, the late principal of Helen J. Stewart special education school; Sue Morrow, former music education teacher; John Bonner, former U.S. attorney appointed by President John F. Kennedy, and Berkeley Bunker, the late state senator.

The names, which were selected Thursday, will be forwarded to the School Board's next meeting for approval.

Other new elementary schools will bear the names of teachers Ollie Detwiler Conroy, Roberta Curry Cartwright and Dean Allen; former principals Eva Wolfe, John Vanderburg and Frank Lamping, and elementary administrator Roger Bryan.

Other recommended names include former Nevada governor and U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan; Aggie Roberts of the Nevada Cooperative Extension and a long-time civic volunteer; Dan Goldfarb, civic leader and former member of the School Board; Charles West, the first black doctor in Nevada, and Edith Garehime, local business person.

The three middle schools will be named after Duane D. Keller, a former principal; Addeliar D. Guy III, former District Court judge; and the Lied family, which provided a $6.5 million donation of land and property.

High school names will reflect locations, not people. There will be 19 elementary, three middle and three high schools built with 1994 bond funds.

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