The Olentangy Board of Education today officially approved the logo for Olentangy Berkshire Middle School (OBMS), which will open in August of 2011. The logo was inspired by artwork from Olentangy Orange Middle School (OOMS) student Prabhat K. and incorporates a lantern and the letters O and B.
The OBMS mascot is the Sentinels, which is defined as someone who keeps watch or watches over something. The mascot was selected from a pool of community suggestions and references the area’s significance to the Underground Railroad and the military history of Colonel Moses Byxbe, who named Berkshire Township after his hometown of Berkshire, Massachusetts. Prabhat told the Board that he chose to incorporate a lantern into his design because it would have been used by sentinels during the war and by those helping people escape to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
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- The final design for the Olentangy Berkshire Middle School logo
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- Superintendent Wade Lucas, Ed.D., OOMS student Prabhat K., OBMS Principal Carla Baker and Board President Julie Wagner Feasel
