By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education last week elected board member Pam Hemminger as board chair. Hemminger replaces Jamezetta Bedford.

The board also elected Lisa Stuckey as vice chair. She replaces Hemminger.

In addition, new board member Mia Burroughs and returning board members Bedford, Mike Kelley and Annetta Streater were sworn in by Judge Joe Buckner. 

Burroughs, 45, replaces longtime board member Elizabeth Carter, who decided not to seek re-election. Burroughs is a freelance grant writer and has two daughters who attend Phillips Middle School and East Chapel Hill High School.

In other school business, the board considered possible names for the district’s new elementary school, which is under construction on the corner of Dromoland and Eubanks roads and is expected to open in the fall of 2008.

The school naming committee presented Morris Grove Elementary and Eubanks Elementary as possible names for the school. Morris Grove was the name of a black school started by Morris Hogan, a freed slave, on a site adjacent to the site of the new elementary school. The school’s original structure still stands.

Stuckey, Bedford and Burroughs said they supported naming the school Morris Grove Elementary, while other board members did not indicate support for a particular name.