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Photos by Rosemarie Fiacconne Wet weather did not dampen the spirits of Granville residents Saturday as the whole town turned out to honor Everett Owen Rockwell, who is retiring after 19 years as principal of the Granville Village School. Clockwise, starting at upper left, a contingency representing the Granville Volunteer Fire Department marches in the town parade; Christine Schultz, committee chairman, pins boutonniere on "Rocky"; an antique car leads representatives of the 19 classes from the Granville school which graduated under Rockwell; Rockwell greets a group of Granville elementary students during the parade; and the Class of '80 gets a personal thank you from the retiring Granville principal. �� https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34234/archive/files/e23169bb3e041a61fd9c771e40a4ca14.pdf?Expires=1774483200&Signature=a9yEteizOA-bL6W2Urwq7Rqz0szEVw0csugrbowRCPv%7EBObr17UhBOI3sltcvYJE6aVbmCKjg5cYZNgKSto9nnr2n7lf1vWoMUAhwtVICG0bwouWn-LeTwr89CYb6dznSQBh-d66K-MujPFoyq0LejJE-LzvWeozdSMfGyW3gkC-eu2h1oWakc78or7BLScpYgPX5kwwtQqYC-YP%7ElfNtj5KWbMleVwrmk2dNtdfTagoU9fQn8Y7NdCOLnfRfEHxFxdAeVu%7EZLsa4ZE36xfjkt288K2yCJOZGknzHOWF66EB7A6u7X1Hhp50iLIcxkLMFi6NdjNpas28JuUVeRMIUw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 055016c01755a579991eeaf6bfeca100 PDF Text Text Retiring Granville principal '1 in a ~illion' By Christopher Plourde Staff Writer GRANVILLE - Wailing sirens, clowns, Granville students of all ages and more than half a dozen parade floats brightened a short section of Route 57 Saturday to pay tribute to .retiring Granville principal Everett 0. " Rocky" Rockwell. Rockwell this month ends his career as principal of the Granville Village and West Granville Schools after 19 years of service to the community. Almost 200 Granville residents, all of whom seemed to be personal acquaintances of the 61year-old principal, caught Rockwell by surprise this weekend with an "Everett 0 . Rockwell Day" to celebrate his contribution to Granville and to see him off as he enters a new stage of life. A parade of colorful floats and costumes, the "Granville Tab 'n Apple Choir," fire trucks and an ambulance honored Rockwell Saturday afternoon. The floats included a campsite on wheels, a school bus with a portable toilet mounted on the hood, a truck pulling artwork depicting scenes of Washington D.C. and another truck adorned with banners and momentoes recalling a field trip to Alaska. These referred to the popular field trips which Rockwell initiated during his term. Rockwell is responsible for several cross country school tours and trips to Cape Cod as well as local camping trips. Almost a dozen people filled out a giant fish costume commemorating Rockwell's "fish fry" events to raise money for the Granville Scholarship Funds. During the first half of the parade, Rockwell, seated beside his wife Miriam, reviewed the procession from the bed of a pick-up truck. As the parade continued, however, Rockwell left his seat and, laughing constantly, exchanged words, handshakes, hugs and kisses with just about everyone in the procession. The parade started at the town green and ended at the front lawn of Granville Village School, where Granville citizens treated Rockwell to some informal speech making, gifts, awards, compliments and fond reminiscing. Former students from the graduating classes of each year of Rockwell's career as Granville principal took turns at the microphone honoring Rockwell and recalling humorous incidents which ~curred during his field trips. � https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34234/archive/files/c963f4a52d61f93cc61f1269ee3f9123.pdf?Expires=1774483200&Signature=cVNg1m9uAgjEPLcyN3%7EMOWS5b%7EMfVFS9-YQ4ozSMxR9E5XK5Q6KLezB9HD23dieraLQ%7EVLJUokTL8Wf0AkK3w6WFbI8B4x%7EwGBgKkCFzS8gskm7AE8P7lrlTlTCxtjyw67EmDqpO95s%7Eld%7E55MEPCEV-AtmfeDQNRIB9zgzMPJ3AQK6bQf1K-F2xzrlvyZmuzPNsgyCiPL0EwZjx3wWOc9ybA79yR2dgNuGZzsc8Dn0aj-rW1VUQ85qBpUwSXGKTyyX-mkizsGEX8BuiV4AIMYZX5FDXWyB0aTKQmXWq0s9Mkp%7EYddPW7eEroB-2Y8FZGX%7EMeswMi49CsxHWikZqzg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 3956108b60fb8bcff4d13ff45f9af6a6 PDF Text Text � https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34234/archive/files/1229a412985cf9a47c6f521266f9954c.jpg?Expires=1774483200&Signature=sY3dkYiv2mMlQU21LxeiBERLETgawADk5zKksmVhK-Nplly-Gd%7En-7EY-3O8TDAWYO2XfIQ5QO4Y08384Letvd9YEakvlBChSr7jOrGNkRgpwfwEbDRGCGSIWPuffHOnXyfgkEVT9xeu2mSYxd9gxtG15To-tccY2%7E5g-suVBXDd-kQCtcXHy%7EHNG-lFjQCLcFPsKijFo90EhL9QvVsRYdF5QoYtwW6KzMhYE4jLzo2wNaL0ew-q6g2dTc5MM-k64AXxtOwxjdhUCtCZHIKb3bzg55GeIQJfsAW4O2hxx8T9oslAY7gV860Q4rzOD7JqdyyQtXijoc7yPjBclcFFxA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 98b2f71f4bfe1ab853d6cb9df75aeebe https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34234/archive/files/1e6a1bc9195ee04e64e174897dd7e051.pdf?Expires=1774483200&Signature=TM-vEf6ahfwo5xYHIyvvaEUkoKtEVgylYQwPzNxsP5aNNUkJh8qYXQUy20rDy8TOgFUnp5BZoc%7EO6dc7qytQ04CPd2ZnA2fuZLgS%7EJYi7OUpBl-T4ornSXElyHOIiSq2dHTwJQrCsYP640mRsOeEeNfUnA1dBCzrQxDkfhlpFfdRj9lAOE%7EQc7Pfz0Wr1zN-T1lw30%7EZePuqNA6Qg7hWF2kd1J%7Expdxz25ZW1q9-eljkukGWtmEcv23avf7kJdNQc7Gkw9UKZl3LiUUcufRAe2FxPWt4iJAWMcIlyNb1fG7vIl4Z6R3aU7U-jfbe9B-Y3j%7Eqbzpdnd1KvjgMk3lzlA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM fed43c18d223d80fb11da3570cb442fc PDF Text Text OBITUARY Everett Owen Rockwell March 1, 1923 – July 15, 2018 No-one who met him will be surprised to hear that Everett managed to get fired from his first job. The fix was in to let a school board member’s son play ball with failing grades – just tell the teacher to pass the boy. But Everett just couldn’t do it. No contract renewal either. All children were equally special to him. It was Everett’s joy and privilege to spend his career as an elementary school principal in Tuftonboro, Amherst and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire; with a grand wrap-up in Granville, Massachusetts. He was a hands-on kind of principal, which put a lot of the administrative paperwork on his secretary. This gave him the luxury to spend most of his time with the kids – not always popular with superintendents, or school boards, but it always seemed to work for the students. It also seemed that the school year just wasn’t long enough because many summers were spent directing summer camps or running bus trips. Those bus trips were the stuff of legends. Mim and Everett packed the gear, loaded a couple dozen 10-16 year olds with a couple chaperones and set off on a cross country trip through the national parks and wonders of America – or maybe ten weeks to Alaska. A generation of Granvillites share a priceless heritage. Everett was born in Boston, and raised in Oakland, Maine with 7 sisters and brothers in the Baptist Church parsonage. In 1943 he enlisted in the Army Air Force, and was based in Bury St. Edmunds, England. His father was stationed in France as a chaplain. He found out that a plane was flying from England to landing strip near his dad, so with the help of the flight crew, Everett went AWOL to visit for a couple days and then returned to his base with no one the wiser. Everett returned to Colby College after the war to finish his education under the GI bill. After being refused readmission based on his prior poor record, he convinced the dean to accept him, simply saying that two and a half years in England had made him a different man. He was, and he graduated in ’48, married his childhood sweetheart, Miriam Tobin, and began his career. Everett worked as an educator for 36 years, but he taught his entire life. Half of his career was spent in Granville, Mass. Upon his retirement, the town shut down Main Road for a parade in his honor. Sixty people lovingly created a quilt commemorating his activities in town. Mim and Everett moved to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and Betmar Village in Zephyrhills, Florida. They shared more than twenty years of active retirement and travel. In addition to his children: Becky Bent and Toby, his grandchildren: Samantha and Chris Bent, and his brother Paul; Everett has left innumerable kids of all ages enriched. A.A. �Milne’s donkey Eeyore helped encourage millions of kids to live in the moment; our EOR did the same, up close and personal, for thousands. Donations in his memory may be made to the Everett O. and Miriam T. Rockwell Scholarship Fund, Granville-Tolland Dollars for Scholars PO Box 214, Granville, MA 01034. Alternatively, honor Everett by taking a young one for a walk in the woods and explore the mysteries of this wonderful world. A service and fellowship will be held Friday, July 20th from 2:00 – 4:00 at Bridges, 108 Littleton Road, Westford, MA., Everett’s home for the last 5 years. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People: Portraits and Groups Description An account of the resource A collection of photos for which identifying information is known (ie; who, what, when, where or why). To view a larger version of any photo, click on that photo, then click the image thumbnail on the photo's page. You will then see a full-size image including a "zoom" function to get an even closer look at faces and places. If you have old Granville photos to add please contact the library. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rockwell, Everett O., Principal, Granville Village School Description An account of the resource Everett O. Rockwell, (1923-2018), principal of the Granville Village School 1965-1984. <br /><br />The following was received by Ed DuBois in 2024: <br /><br />"I found this flyer in a box of photos, and rather than just throw it out I thought some might find it interesting, certainly a part of Granville's more recent history. The quality of the scan isn't great, but I expect the original was probably run off on the old Granville Village School mimeograph machine. <br /><br />Though only about 45 years ago, it gives a small glimpse of how dedicated the late Everett Rockwell, longtime principal of GVS, was to our kids. Some will remember he took the older GVS students on a cross-country field trip, in a school bus, for many years. This was a note sent home just before departure in 1979. there is a hand written note from Mr. Rockwell, at the bottom, warning of possible difficulty with fuel, due to the 1979 oil crisis, and his contingency plan. <br /><br />Many of these participants will be familiar....I'm sure some still live in the area, most would probably be approaching 59 or 60 now. <br /><br />This portion of the itinerary includes traversing Colorado, Passing through Estes Park, east portal to Rocky Mountain National Park, where Anne and I now live. After leaving Hot Sulphur Springs, they would travel across the Park on Trail Ridge Road, the highest paved mountain pass in the U.S., crossing the Continental Divide at over 12,000', (and just 5 or 10 miles from our home today...they would have likely passed our present home after coming through the park!) Our son, Mitchell Willis, was on this trip. <br /><br />I hope you find this an interesting snippet of life in Granville. (I found this picture of the bus, preparing to leave for the '81 trip, which our son Paul went on.) -Ed DuBois" Relation A related resource <a href="https://historicalroom.omeka.net/items/show/935">CLICK HERE</a> to see 1975 Bicentennial Exploration bus trip Everett O. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People: Portraits and Groups Description An account of the resource A collection of photos for which identifying information is known (ie; who, what, when, where or why). To view a larger version of any photo, click on that photo, then click the image thumbnail on the photo's page. You will then see a full-size image including a "zoom" function to get an even closer look at faces and places. If you have old Granville photos to add please contact the library. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Main Road 0458, Rockwell, Dr. Description An account of the resource Dr. Rockwell at the corner of Maple Street (now Main Road) and Old Westfield Road. 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