Author: Adam Gillitt

One of Nashville’s newest schools honored its namesake Thursday by planting a tree for her. Ivanetta H. Davis Early Learning Center planted the tree on a hillside on its Bordeaux campus in memory of Ivanetta H. Davis, who served as an MNPS teacher and longtime elementary school principal. Davis, who was 100 when she died in 2013, was also a founding charter member of the Nashville chapter of The Links, Incorporated, a national service organization that helped to put together the event. Davis’s granddaughter, Ivanetta Davis Samuels, spoke to the audience of pre-kindergarten students, teachers, staff and Links members, saying the…

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