Principal's Message & Background

  Larry Haynes started as the Administrator at Holladay Intermediate Magnet School in late October 2009, working with Principal Carolyn Eldridge of Borton Primary Magnet School during Holladay's transitional period between administrators.

In the summer of 2010, Mr. Haynes The TUSD Governing Board approved Mr. Haynes appointment as Principal of Holladay Intermediate School, ensuring stability and guidance to the school as it renews itself for the coming decade.

This opportunity is a perfect match with his skills as he taught here early in his career for fifteen years. In between he's been Principal at Jefferson Park Elementary School and Director of African American Studies at TUSD. But from his first experience at Holladay to today, Mr. Haynes has come to know the school as not only a neighborhood school for our children, but as a center for this community as well.

The Star Polisher
I have a great job in the universe of occupations.
What do I do? I'm a "star polisher."
It's a very important job. If you want to know how important,
Just go out at night and look at the stars twinkling and sparkling.
You see, I'm a teacher, an educator, a mentor.
The stars are the children in my class.
My job is to take them in whatever shape they come,
and shine and buff them and then send them out
to take their places as bright twinkling beacons in the sky.
They come into my room in all shapes and sizes.
Sometimes they're bent, tarnished, dirty, crinkly, or broken.
Some stars are cuddly and soft.
Some are prickly and thorny.
As I buff and polish, I train and teach my little stars;
I tell them that the world cannot do without them.
Each night as I look at the sky,
I'm reminded of my very important job
and awesome responsibility.
Then I get my soft buffing cloth
and my bottle of polish
in preparation for tomorrow
...for my class of little stars.

--Leah Becks