Metro Action Celebrates First Newly Built Head Start Center in history in Nashville
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February 26, 2007
Metro Action Celebrates First Newly Built Head Start Center in history in Nashville
Nashville—Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell will join the staff and supporters of the Metropolitan Action Commission at a special ceremony on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 10 a.m. to dedicate the first newly built Head Start Center in the history of Nashville, the Susan Gray Head Start Center (located at 445 Cotton Lane, 37211). Dr. Susan Gray (1913-1992), is noted as the inspiration of the Head Start program through her work throughout the country in early child development.
In addition to the building dedication, the campus of the building will be officially named the Phillip A. Pratt Campus. In December, the Metropolitan Council approved an ordinance naming the property, where Susan Gray Head Start now sits as the Phillip A. Pratt Campus. Soon after the Civil War, the Pratt family settled on the property as one of the first freed-slave families in that area. Phillip A. Pratt (1918-1998) was known as an outstanding businessman and a champion of the teaching profession.