MESQUITE, Texas — Rutherford Elementary Principal Kristy Carter and Assistant Principal Casy Wilburn combed through the pages of their yearbooks.

“Lots of changes, lots of memories,” Wilburn said.

The page-turner is reminiscent of what used to be and what is currently.

“She was the Assistant Principal for you, but she became my principal,” Carter said.

Carter attended Rutherford Elementary in Mesquite in 1988. Wilburn attended in 1975.

“We were still in the original 1965 building,” Wilburn said. “The original Rutherford was a monolingual campus and so our bilingual students that lived in the neighborhood had to be bused to other schools.”

“I remember when I was in elementary school, there was close to 1,000 kids and how crowded it was,” Carter said.

In 2018, they moved to a new buil

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