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Private school sought at KMIA new private school may open on the campus of the former Kentucky Military Institute (KMI) on laGrange Road In Lyndon this fall. If sufficient interest deveiops within the next two weeksThe organizer of the school is Edward T. Vermillion, of 12306 Mistletoe Road in Anchorage Vermillion, who holds a doctorate in education from Indiana University, has been on the faculty at Hanover College for the last two yearsVermillion said this week he has an option to lease or purchase the tormer KMI facilities* which expires Sept 15. He said he must receive signed contracts from the parents of 300 students, or some solid assurance that they will be forthcoming, by that date, At a meeting of several hundred interested parents Tuesday night, Vermillion said tuition fees would range trom Si,500 for kindergarten, to S1.800 for grades ^ - 3 and S2.000 for grades 4 - 12 Another meeting will be held at the school tomorrow, Sept. 5* at 7 pm/ There are 16 classrooms In two buildings on the campus, and a science budding with space for four additional classrooms, Vermillion said. The school, known recently as Kentucky Academy, has been vacant since June 1973, when declining enrollment convinced Headmaster William Simpson to close It.Vermillion said the buildings need a considerable amount of repair, but can be made serviceable by the proposed opening date of Oct. 15.During the period 1958-60, Vermillion taught in the Jefferson County school system Later he taught elementary school in Crest wood, served one year as assistant principal of Oldham County Junior High School, and moved back to Crestwood as principal of the elementary school, in 1969 he entered graduate school at lU and, while working toward his doctorate, held faculty appointments at iU and IU-Southeast Vermillion said he will call the new school the “Walden School, adding that he has a special fondness for the philosophy of Henry David ThoreauWe'd been riding the go-kart on Sundays and week nights near the tram museum It’s more of a hobby With a Quarter's worth of gas. we had fun all day, alt night.” Bauer said-Jeffersontown firms close in protestMany Jeffersontown businesses were to be closed today in protest against court-ordered desegregation of the public schools.James Henderson, owner of H H Automotive, 10309 Taylorsville Road, said late yesterday he had obiained more than 50 signatures of business owners on a petition which called for a one-day closure, Henderson predicted that no more than 15 percent ot local business firms would be open today,
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Louisville Jefferson Reporter
Louisville, Kentucky, US
Thu, Sep 04, 1975
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