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(Above) Members of Hopkins County Masonic Lodge 180 and leaders from the Grand Lodge of Texas led and participated in the cornerstone dedication ceremony for the new Cumby Collegiate High School building on Saturday, Sept. 9. Staff photos by Tammy Vinson -
Workers from Arisan Masonry cement the cornrstone into place on one of the entry columns of the new Cumby Collegiate High School. Local and state Freemasons led the dedication ceremony for the new building, which is nearing completion. Staff photo by Tammy Vinson
|Cumby ISD
Cumby Collegiate High School's new building is almost ready to open. District, community and members of both the state and local Masonic lodges participated in a ceremony to dedicate the building's cornerstone Saturday morning, Sept. 9.
Cumby Collegiate ISD Superintendent Shelly Slaughter welcomed the crowd to the event, speaking of her excitement and pride for the new building and her gratitude to for the community's willingness to support the project through a 2021 bond election.
CCISD Board of Trustees President Jason Hudson expressed his gratituted to the Masons. Hudson explained his grandfather was a Mason for more than 65 years, and his oldest daughter received a Teacher of the Year award from Masonic Lodge No. 382.
'We are very thankful for your servant work and serving our community as leaders and stewards,' Hudson told the Masons present. 'This is a blessed day, a day of Cumby history that is set by this covenant organization.'
The new $5.28 million 16,000-square foot high school building is built to look more like a college campus with classrooms, laboratory spaces, career and technical facilities, multiple areas to work on assignments, and a $1.1 million 7,000 square foot metal vocational technology building.
The entryway of the building contains architectural features built with bricks from the old Cumby School, linking the past and future together.
Cumby Collegiate ISD's new high school is expected to be completed by late October. A dediation ceremony for the full building will be held at that later time. Details will be announced closer to the event date.
For more information about Cumby Collegiate ISD dedication, visit www. cumbyisd.net or contact the school.