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Curtis’s Pansy Day

special this year

BY LINDA FAUSZ
Pansy Day at Curtis Elementary, and she has been the cheerleader to keep the
a day when every student plants a pansy tradition each year from the start. Bush is
or bulb, is a day of beautifying the retiring this school year.
school grounds for the winter and early During the brief ceremony, PTA
spring. Last Wednesday was a cool but president Whitney Kunkle presented Bush
sunny morning. Each grade filed out of with a lavender T-shirt reading “Pansy Day
the classroom either with their pansy or Founder” and a plaque in her honor for the
picking up one purchased for a small fee entrance garden.
from the PTA. Bulbs were furnished for “Pansy Day was started when the
students who did not bring a pansy or school beautification committee was
turn in the PTA form to purchase one at formed,” Bush said. “Glen Dewire was
school. Shovels from the first Pansy Day the principal, and he was really the one to
23 years ago were picked up one by one. suggest it.”
With shovel and plant in hand, each ran to According to the Curtis Yearbook, WHITNEY KUNKLE, PTA PRESIDENT, RECOGNIZED BRENDA BUSH AT THE PANSY DAY
a planting bed, scraped, scooped, and dug, the committee formed during the 1994-95 FOUNDER ON PANSY DAY.
then gently placed and covered the soil school year. “Beautification started with
around its roots. For those needing a little the front courtyard area, which is now
guidance, parent volunteers were available where the new Office Complex currently
to give instruction. In all, 515 pansies were sits,” Bush confirmed in an e-mail. “The
planted along with three or four dozen tulip committee consisted of both Curtis staff
and daffodil bulbs. members and parents who loved the idea of
The PTA used the special planting day making our school grounds beautiful. Back
as a day to honor the founder of Pansy Day, then, the committee members, along with
Brenda Bush, office manager at Curtis. She their families, came on the weekends and
has been in the school’s office for 30 years planted a row of Bradford pear trees and
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