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Cannon School Fun Facts You don’t get to be fifty years old without accumulating some stories!
While the first headmaster, Herbert Buttrick, was interviewing for the job, he stayed at the home of Buddy Hilbish and his family. Unfortunately for him,
the Hilbish’s PET
ALLIGATOR
escaped confinement during his visit, and Buttrick found the creature
Annual tuition when the doors to Cabarrus Academy opened on September 10, 1969
slithering down the hall.
Kindergarten (called pre-school): $350 First and second grade: $500 Third through sixth grade: $675
Said alligator moved into the science lab
Seventh through tenth grade: $750
at 65 Union Street, where he met a sad demise when a smoldering cigarette fell into an open filing cabinet, resulting in
The speed limit on Education Way is 19 miles an hour because Headmaster Dick Snyder’s favorite football player was Johnny Unitas. Unitas’s jersey number?
A FIRE that destroyed most of the school records, caused a power outage, and froze the pipes.
OUR ORIGINAL MASCOT WAS A
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