Historic Savannah schoolhouse welcomes alumni back inside doors for special reunion

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Former students and teachers of Massie Elementary School gathered at the Massie Heritage Center for a reunion and shared their stories with the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System.The school operated for 118 years. It now operates as a museum along Abercorn and East Gordon Streets.First public school in SavannahMassie Elementary School opened as the first public school in Savannah in 1856.“It was the school for downtown for many many people so a lot of senior citizens now went here because they could walk,” said Gale Stevens, president of Friends of Massie.Stevens said her team has been trying to find people who went to the school.Reunions bring together students and teachersMargaret Helmly, a former Massie Elementary student, described the school as a neighborhood school.“This was what I call a neighborhood school,” Helmly said.Alice Gerber, a former Massie Elementary teacher, met her former student Linda Carroll. It was one of many reunions the Massie