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Did You Know? Cannon School Fun Facts

You don’t get to be fifty years old without accumulating some stories!

Annual tuition when the doors to Cabarrus Academy opened on September 10, 1969 Kindergarten (called pre-school): $350 First and second grade: $500 Third through sixth grade: $675 Seventh through tenth grade: $750

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?

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 slithering down the hall.

Said alligator moved into the science lab at 65 Union Street, where he met a sad demise when a smoldering cigarette fell into an open filing cabinet, resulting in A FIRE that destroyed most of the school records, caused a power outage, and froze the pipes.

OF COURSE.

OUR ORIGINAL MASCOT WAS A ROAD RUNNER

Tracy Wade is the only teacher currently at Cannon School who also taught in the house on 65 Union Street.

FIELD DAY at Cabarrus Academy used to take place each year on the front lawn of the Liles family home.

Our JrK driver’s license test, TEDDY BEAR PICNIC, Gold and Maroon Day, and Grandparents Day all date back to our time at Cabarrus Academy.

Cannon School began running white buses in 2010. The first bus we ran from the Union Street site was also painted red and white.

The arch that tops the entryway of the Richard Snyder Building was modeled after the arch over the door at 65 Union Street.

The first playground on our Poplar Tent site was built by a dedicated group of parents. It was dubbed “FORT CABARRUS.”

The auxiliary gym is often called “The Blue Gym” because the floor used to be a blue sport court.

Margaret Cannon West grew up in the house on 65 Union Street. Later, she worked at Cabarrus Academy as the Director of Development and had her office in her childhood bedroom.

In the original house at 65 Union Street, THE KITCHEN BECAME THE SCIENCE LAB and the below-stairs laundry room was for art. Students used the downtown Concord library, just a few doors down, for book-checkout (as well as large assemblies) and the Boys and Girls Club down the street for PE.