Delta Elementary Grand Opening

Visitors to the grand opening of Delta Elementary Sunday, April 18, 2010 watch as the national and state flags are raised above the school. (Laura Simon)

Visitors to the grand opening of Delta Elementary Sunday, April 18, 2010 stand for the Pledge of Allegiance as the state and national flags wave high above the new school. (Laura Simon)

Superintendent Nate Crowden presents a plaque to Pat Dooley in honor of the grand opening of the Pat Dooley Elementary Building Sunday, April 18, 2010. (Laura Simon)

Pat Dooley and principal Mary Livingston cut the ribbon on the Pat Dooley Elementary Building Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the school's grand opening. Dooley worked as a teacher and later principal for Delta Elementary for 43 years. (Laura Simon)

Pat Dooley and principal Mary Livingston open the doors of Delta Elementary to visitors Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the school's grand opening. (Laura Simon)

Pat Dooley, top left, and Mary Livingston, far right, hold open the doors of Delta Elementary for visitors Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the school's grand opening. (Laura Simon)

Pat Dooley, right, greets Glenda Gregory and many more visitors at the entrance of Delta Elementary Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the school's grand opening celebration. The new school building is named after Dooley who worked at Delta Elementary for 43 years as a teacher and later as principal. (Laura Simon)

From left, Brenda Brown, Jewel Hutson, Evelyn Waddle, and Janet Bond look through Jewel's Delta High School yearbook from 1939 Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the grand opening of Delta Elementary. (Laura Simon)

Deloris Jackson-Trentham, left, and Pat Dooley chat at the entrance of Delta Elementary Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the school's grand opening celebration. (Laura Simon)

Novella Howell, left, and Jewel Hutson chat in the gymnasium of the new Delta Elementary building Sunday, April 18, 2010. Howell graduated from Delta High School in 1941, and Hutson in 1939. (Laura Simon)

Students run through the hall of their new school building Sunday, April 18, 2010 during the grand opening of Delta Elementary. (Laura Simon)

Delta Elementary first grade student Alec Brown and his father Barry Brown tour the kitchen of Alec's new school building Sunday, April 18, 2010. (Laura Simon)

Visitors of the new Delta Elementary building tour the library Sunday, April 18, 2010. (Laura Simon)