{"id":5513,"date":"2009-08-12T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lps.org\/pedia\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:24:42","slug":"bea-beattie-elementary","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/glossary\/bea-beattie-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"BEA &#8211; Beattie Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>LOCATION: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=1901+Calvert%20St+68502,+Lincoln,+Lancaster,+Nebraska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1901 Calvert St, 68502<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>IN OPERATION:<\/strong> 1953-Present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beattie.lps.org\/\">Web site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Beattie was built in 1953 and significantly renovated in 2007. It was named for Merle M. Beattie (1885-1979) who joined the Lincoln Public Schools District in 1906 and served 45 years as either teacher or administrator. In 1923 she was appointed Director of Elementary Education, a position she held until her retirement in 1951. In January 1953 Miss Beattie was selected by the Lincoln Board of Education to replace a member who had resigned to take a position in the Eisenhower administration. She served on the board only five months until the 1953 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beattie was built in 1953 and significantly renovated in 2007. It was named for Merle M. Beattie (1885-1979) who joined the Lincoln Public Schools District in 1906 and served 45 years as either teacher or administrator. In 1923 she was appointed Director of Elementary Education, a position she held until her retirement in 1951. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-5513","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"related_terms":"Beattie Elementary","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7574,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5513\/revisions\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}