The teachers' lounge at Richard Kane Elementary School boasts some new-found charm thanks to the Bartlesville Southern Baptist Church.
Volunteers from the church performed a makeover on the lounge on April 12, adding a leather sofa, new tables and some designer screens. They even added some paw prints on one of the walls for a distinct Kane Cougar touch.
“The response from the teachers has really been positive,” says Kane first-grade teacher Jennifer Hamilton, who is friends with many of the volunteers. “The work was very much appreciated.
“Projects like this make the teachers really feel appreciated for all of the hard work that they do.”
Bartlesville Southern Baptist's Allison Hackler helped to organize the project along with church missions director Jim Griffin. Among the volunteer group was Hackler and her husband, David, as well as the couple's daughters, Rachel and Sadie. Also on hand were Jeannette Miller and her sons, Taylor and Jordan, and Joy and Robert Poole.
“We started work around 1 p.m. and finished up about three hours later,” says Hamilton, who served as a volunteer worker on the project, also. “It was a nice transformation of the lounge.”
Bartlesville Southern Baptist volunteers are no strangers to Kane. They pitched in to help the school get back on its feet following the flood of 2007, which resulted in classes having to be relocated from the building for nearly two weeks.
Hamilton is in her first year as a teacher at Kane. Her daughter, Erin Rebekah, is in the fourth grade at the school.
The teachers' lounge at Richard Kane Elementary School has a fresh, welcoming look these days thanks to a volunteer effort by members of the Bartlesville Southern Baptist Church.