The News Journal du lieu suivant : Wilmington, Delaware • Page 180

Workers install columns at the entranceway of the new Appoquinimink High School. -fit" I difc-U il i Ui 7 4 4 ifcl yuML. U'r- i''- A A work in progress Athletics get a leg up on academics at new school STORY BY AL KEMP I PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOB HERBERT kJ. i-rrr hi "'i 1 E- sj he Appoquinimink School District plans to as principal of the Ninth Grade Academy, housed put the new stadium and field house at at Alfred G. Waters School.

Appoquinimink High School to use this In 2008, she will move to the new high fall, a year before the planned opening of the school, along with ninth- and lOth-graders, to school, district officials say. begin her tenure there. (Waters will then be- The district's facilities management supervi- come a dedicated middle school, serving grades sor said he believes the new stadium will be "one six through eight) of the premier sites in the state." To ease crowding at Middletown High Meanwhile, a new principal has been se- School and help smooth the transition toward lected for the school, and the mascot and colors two high schools, all the ninth-graders in the dis- have been finalized. trict about 650 students will attend Ninth The principal of Appoquinimink High School Grade Academy this fall. 47-year-old Felecia Duggins, of Townsend, was appointed last month.

Freshmen at the Ninth Grade Academy will be divided into two separate athletic programs, Appoquinimink School District facilities management supervisor Bob Hershey strolls down a corridor of the Appoquinimink High School, slated to open next year. Duggins will spend the 2007-08 school year depending on their high-school feeder patterns, JUNE 27-JULY 10, 2007 MIDSTATE LIVING 33.