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Name restoration ceremony held for C.F. Pope Elementary
Name restored for former Burgaw Elementary School By WECT Staff | December 10, 2020 at 3:57 PM EST - Updated December 10 at 6:30 PM
BURGAW, N.C. (WECT) - School and community leaders took part in a name restoration ceremony Thursday for C.F. Pope Elementary School.
A group of C.F. Pope alumni had signed a petition to get the name changed back.
“It truly is a blessing to be here this morning in this honor of our past name: C.F. Pope,” Arnold Moore said Thursday. “Well, it used to be high school, but C.F. Pope Elementary now. It’s really a great joy in my heart to have this name changed back to C.F. Pope.”