Directions for Using This Document: Please review the name suggestions for all schools/facilities and select which of condition criteria are addressed. If it meets no criteria, please select the "Does not Meet Any Criteria" option. Conditions Criteria: Includes Required Resolution components & Task Force Input C1: School name should inspire children and the community C2: Name reflects social justice commitment to intentionally disrupting racism, genderism, ableism & other socially unjust biases (person, place, thing). Additional weight in recommendation should be given to figures who valued and worked for social justice in their lives. C3: Women who have made inspirational contributions during their lives should be given additional weight in recommendations to remedy the lack of representation among current school names* C4: At least one school in Corvallis should have a name that honors the local indigenous people (person, place, thing) C5: At least one school in Corvallis should have a name that honors the community's connection to place C6: Those that intentionally perpetuated white dominance (i.e. slave holders, racist and/or anti-Indigenous views, etc.) will not be considered* *Additional Weight Recommended Suggestions for Name Replacement(s) (From public input received through 10-22-20) Current Name Suggestions C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Does not Name Meet Any Criteria Adams Dunawi Elementary or Dunawi Creek Elementary, since the creek runs through the property. (Make sure the mascot does not Elementary get converted to "dragons" to be alliterative, since that name evokes the history of the ku klux klan in Oregon and elsewhere.) Dixie Daisy School. Daisy Bates was an African American civil rights activist, and [current] name sounds similar to old name. Dixie = School** confederate war song Husky Aspen (Hoover) Aspen Dixon Creek Elementary Fircrest Foothill Forest Husky Elementary Husky (Hoover) Current Name Suggestions C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Does not Name Meet Any Criteria Susan Troxel Hoover (created Hoover vacuum company) Theressa Hoover (African-American woman who was a mentor and executive for the United Methodist Church) Thomas Wogaman Elementary School Timberhill Elementary Timberview Tubman (after Harriet Tubman) Walnut Elementary Woodland Jaguar Birchwood (Jefferson) Cloverland Creekside (for its proximity to Dixon Creek) Dixon Creek Ginsburg Elementary Jaguar Elementary Margo Lillian Jefferson (African-American Pulitzer Prize winner) Ruth Bader Ginsburg Elementary Sotomayor (after Sonia Sotomayor) Sunrise Wildcat Alan Turing (Wilson) Carson (after Letitia Carson) Conifer Hillside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. John Lewis Elementary School Medicine Hill North Highland Russell Wilson (Seattle Seahawks quarterback) Satinwood Sunnyside (after former school at 9th and Elks) Ulrica Wilson (African-American mathematician and Presidential Award recipient) Wildcat Elementary Wildcat (Wilson) Current Name Suggestions C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Does not Name Meet Any Criteria Willamette Elementary Any School Albright (Madeline Albright rose from immigrant to first female Secretary of State.) Alder (after an Oregon tree) Ame Elementary (after a slave owned by a Corvallis family) Amelia Earhart Barbara Roberts*** Beatrice Morrow Cannady*** Beaver Elementary Beverly Cleary (Oregon historical and literary figure) Big Leaf Elementary Camas Elementary (after a native plant) Carl E. Wieman (graduated from Corvallis High School and in 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics) Cascade Ridge Elementary Checkermallow Elementary (after a native plant) Cornelia Marvin Pierce (pioneered the library system) Creekside Elementary Damian Lillard**** Discovery Douglas (after an Oregon tree) Edith Green (Oregon congresswoman who championed women’s rights, and educational and social reform) Edith Green*** Eleanor Roosevelt Esther Pohl Lovejoy*** Frederick Douglass Gert Boyle*** Gorman Elementary (after Hannah and Eliza Gorman) Harriet Tubman Hope Huckleberry Kang Sheng Kathryn Harrison*** Ken Griffey, Jr.**** Kinnickinnick Elementary (after a native plant) Any School Current Name Suggestions C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Does not Name Meet Any Criteria Letitia Carson (after the African American pioneer) Lola Greene Baldwin (activist; first female police officer in the US and worked for Portland Police Department). Love Lupine (after an Oregon flower) Major General Jeanne Holme*** Manzanita Elementary (after a native plant) Margaret Carter*** Mark Hatfield (Oregon historical and literary figure) Martin Luther King Jr. Mary Holmes Shipley Mary McLeod Bethune (daughter of former slaves; pioneer in ensuring African-American women received an education) Mary Tape Maurine Neuberger*** Meadow Elementary Meadowlark Elementary Mercedes Deiz (first Black female lawyer and judge in Oregon) Michelle Obama Nellie Bly Nie Yuanzi Noble (after an Oregon tree) Norma Paulus*** Oak Elementary Obama Peter DeFazio Pine Elementary Pine Grove Elementary Prairie Reuben Shipley Rivers Edge Elementary Robert Kennedy Roosevelt (after FDR) Rosa Parks Elementary Ruby Bridges Elementary Any School Current Name Suggestions C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Does not Name Meet Any Criteria Salal Elementary (after a native plant) Sarah Winnemucca (Native American teacher and activist from Oregon) Shirley Chisholm Siletz Elementary ("Siletz" translates into "coiled like a snake," describing the route of the river winding around the land and mountains to the ocean.”) Sojourner Truth Spruce Elementary Tan Houlan Tom McCall (Oregon historical and literary figure) Trillium (after an Oregon flower) Unify Ursula LeGuin (Oregon historical and literary figure) Walnut Elementary Wayne Morse (Oregon historical and literary figure) Willamette Elementary William O. Douglas (Oregon historical and literary figure) Zhang Chengzgi **Dixie is a school building the Corvallis School District owns, but it is only used for early childhood special education, which is run by the Linn Benton Lincoln Education Service District. ***This name was submitted as part of a list, which included this note: “This [list] includes women of color; two black women and an indigenous women, and Oregon's first woman physician, first woman governor, first woman Secretary of State, first female general in the US Air Force, the first black woman elected to the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate, first (and only) woman US Senator, the long time CEO of Columbia Sportswear, and the legislator who was the creator of Title IX.” ****This name was submitted with the note: “... both Griffey and Lillard are more than inspiring athletes. They both exemplify an unparalleled dedication to personal improvement and teamwork, values we wish to inculcate in our children”.