GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Green Bay’s new west-side elementary school will be named after a Green Bay Packers great and his wife.
School board members voted Monday night to confirm the name Starr Elementary.
It commemorates the immense impact that Super Bowl-winning Packers quarterback and former head coach Bart Starr and his philanthropist wife, Cherry, had on the Green Bay community.
The Starrs were fervent supporters of youth, co-founding Rawhide Youth Services — an organization that helps at-risk kids — and creating the Starr Children’s Fund, an endowment to finance childhood cancer research. In addition, the pair served as honorary chairpersons of the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation’s Golf Classic for 44 years.
Per school board policy for naming a district facility, only one recommendation can be a deceased person, they must be in good morale, it cannot be the same name as other schools or buildings, nicknames need to be considered, research needs to be provided and it must have significant meaning.
Officials said they plan to have busts of both Bart and Cherry inside the school when it is completed.
Students from Kennedy, Keller and MacArthur Elementary Schools will attend the new school, which is being built on the site of the Kennedy Elementary. Earthwork began earlier this month to prepare the site for construction.
