What's in a

name?

Several ingredients,

according to a blue ribbon committee charged with coming up with a formula

for naming new schools in Fayette County.

The Board of

Education Monday night adopted the committee's recommended procedure for

naming the three schools that are currently under construction, or about

to be.

Under the plan,

consideration will be given to six criteria that the committee recommended,

plus one that was added by the board.

The superintendent

will appoint a committee for each school, representing its immediate community,

to recommend names. That committee will develop a list of names and narrow

that list to three, and the school board will make the final pick.

Consideration

will be given to:

Educators

who have made a significant impact on the county School System.

Individuals

who have made significant contributions to society.

Names of communities

served by the school.

Roads.

Landmarks.

Geographical

location in the proximity of the school.

The names

of historic county schools no longer in use.

That seventh

criterion was suggested by school board member Marion Key, who reminded

the board that Spring Hill Elementary School got its name that way.

Names for facilities

within schools, like libraries and gymnasiums, can be named after school

district employees, who have worked five years at the school in question

or ten years in the system, or for residents served by the school in question

who have given ten documented years of school-related service and served

on at least one school support organization.

Recommendations

for those names will be gathered by the administrator in charge of each

school and forwarded to the superintendent for presentation to the board.

The board's

motion to approve the procedure included direction for Superintendent

John DeCotis to begin assembling committees for the elementary school

under construction on Ga. Highway 85 south, and another one planned for

the Peachtree City area. A site for that school has not yet been purchased.

Board members

briefly discussed making the procedure a policy so it can be used for

all future schools, but decided to put that decision off until later.