E.S. Richardson Elementary School

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E.S. Richardson Elementary School is a fourth and fifth grade campus which serves the city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. The school opened in the 1949-1950 academic year, with Wayne Wynn Williams, Sr. (1917-2000), as the principal. It was originally known as East Side Elementary School but was renamed in 1955 for E. S. Richardson.Richardson was the companion school to William G. Stewart Elementary School, named for former school board president William G. Stewart, which served the western side of Minden and also opened in 1949 and closed effective with the fall of 2011 under a parish realignment plan. Both schools were part of a post-World War II bond issue. Richardson school is located at 505 West Todd Street.Originally from Leesville in Vernon Parish in western Louisiana, Williams switched positions in 1954 with John L. Cathcart (1895-1969), the principal of Minden High School. Cathcart, a South Carolina native, hence took over the principalship at Richardson, as Williams went to Minden High School.Prior to the 2011 changes, Richardson offered all elementary grades and had nearly five hundred pupils. Richardson school is named for Edward S. Richardson (1875-1950), school superintendent of Bienville and then Webster parishes, and thereafter the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish as well as a national spokesman on educational issues.

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