She probably epitomizes the thousands of children who have kept the Cambridge classrooms buzzing with activity for the past 27 years in a family success story.
The child facility began when Anita and Gene Taliaferro of Huber Heights purchased the preschool-daycare center, then called Ginny’s Daycare, in 1983.
In recent years, their daughters have been maintaining a reputable rapport with parents and children.
The daughters — Cambridge administrators Sarah Keen and Gail Miller — share a variety of duties, including driving the school vans, and they have followed in their parents’ footsteps with a gradual rise in enrollees and employees.
Youngsters from 6 weeks to age 12 comprise a normal term enrollment of 130.
The older children are in the daycare capacity and are picked up from their respective schools.
The academy maintains a two-building setting that includes side-by-side locations over three acres and includes a toddler building.
“One of Mom’s goals since the inception was to keep entrance prices as low as possible to accommodate hurting parents,” said Miller. “And our goal has always been to make the school a stepping stone into the children’s world of discovery and knowledge.”
Keen, a Beavercreek resident, and her husband, Scott, have three children: Zach, 22; Vanessa, 19; and 16-year-old Alexandra. Zach is a scholarship four-year baseball varsity infielder at Ohio University.
Miller, who has a nursing degree, and her two children, 26-year-old Brittany and 22-year-old Sam, live in Huber Heights.
“We are always exceptionally busy at Christmas time and the preschoolers, under teacher Brenda Conrad of Huber Heights, were taking pride this year with a Christmas calendar project,” said Keen. “The calendars include a different drawing for each month and are bound in notebook style.”
To contact the academy, call (937) 236-4328.
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