It’s a birthday for Bunn Elementary

YOUNGSTOWN — Paul C. Bunn Elementary School has been educating children for 50 years, and the newest version of that facility, opened last September at the site of the original Bunn building at 1825 Sequoya Drive, is celebrating its birthday on Monday.

Invitations have been sent to all Bunn families as well as students living in the Bunn neighborhood who are enrolled in charter schools.

Building tours of the new school will be offered at 10 a.m. and 2 and 5 p.m. and birthday cake will be served at the end of each tour, courtesy of Nemenz IGA.

Bunn students will be dressed in their party attire all day and they will get their slice of birthday cake following their regular lunch period.

Maria Pappas, the current principal, will gather with all of the school’s former principals who are still living at 10:45 a.m. in the Front Commons. The guest list includes Sam Loree, Mary Byrd Clark, Joseph Allegretto and Jerome Parm who will participate in a ceremonial cake cutting that will be broadcast into all of the classrooms via closed circuit televisions. The public is invited to attend.

Birthday cards, messages and keepsakes form former Bunn students, teachers, neighbors and parents will be collected throughout the rest of this month to be placed in a “Treasure Chest” time capsule that will be archived in the school to be opened on its 75th birthday in 2034.