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Vol. 46 No. 3
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THUBSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949
Price Ten Cents
Proposed New Addition to the Sewickley Academy
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/t's Going to Look Like This—Shown above is the architect’s sketch drawing of the new, building addition, as you would see it looking up from the Ohio River Boulevard. The new section will not affect the Academy Avenue view of the school.
Academy Fund Raising Campaign A fund-raising campaign to obtain $225,000 for an addition to Sewickley Academy was started this week.
Sparked by a group of 60 volunteer workers, the campaign seeks to provide funds for new facilities, including a new kindergarten, library, cafeteria, science laboratory, and classroorh.
F. E. Richardson, Jr., is General Chairman of die drive. John C. Oliver, Jr., is vice chairman, and Headmaster E. \i. Clarke is Managing Director. *
The campaign is the culmination of deliberations that have been taken by the Academy’s BOARD OF TRUSTEES for 2% years.
The Academy's present structure was built 21 years ago. Since that time educational requirements and standards have changed. Enrollment at the school has more than doubled during the past four years. A broader program will be made possible by the facilities, to he provided in the new wing. A wider vista of ser-
vice to the community is envisaged by the Academy, its trustees, and faculty.
The campaign is the final step in an extensive program of progressive steps that have been taken at the Academy during the past few years. Two years ago, the nursery school was enlarged. One year ago, an all-weather court was built. During the past year, an extensive plan of modern lighting was begun.
On January 1st of this year, a pension plan with the Carnegie Fund, was instituted by the Academy, providing security for the members of the Faculty.
The three-story addition, ’which will provide the facilities to take the Academy farther along the road to greater community service, will be built on the west side of the present main building, paralleling the gymnasium.
The Volunteer Workers taking part in the drive have been divided into two Divisions of five teams each.
Division heads are J, F. Byers, Jr., chairman of the Red Division; and Mrs.
J. J. Brooks, chairman of the Black Division.
Team captains are: RED DIVISION: Team No. 1, Mrs. W. R, Jackson; Team No. 2, E. D. Stevens; Team No. 3, B. F. Jones III; Team No. 4, Walter I. Floyd, and Team No. 5, David M. Gilmore.
BLACK DIVISION: Team No. 6, Robert A. McKean, Jr.; Team No. 7, William A. Gordon; Team No. 8, W. C. Robinson, Jr.; Team No. 9, J. Barr Haines, and Team No. 10, Rev. Benedict Williams.
Preliminary, campaign plans were laid at a meeting of the Academy’s Board of Trustees on Friday evening, January 14.
Leaders of the campaign met again Monday evening, January 17, to further formulate plans and get the drive under way.
A meeting of the Academy’s Corporators and Volunteer Workers in the drive was held Tuesday evening, January 18th, at the school., Campaign plans were advanced at that time and the personnel
of thé ten teams was completed.
The first report meeting of the campaign is scheduled to take place at the Academy next Monday evening, Jan. 24. The second report meeting will take place the following Thursday, Feb. 3, Chairman Richardson announced.
Campaign Headquarters have been set up in the Academy, Headmaster Clark disclosed. The intensive two-week drive has been set up on a systematic basis to accomplish thé task in the shortest possible period of time.
A special ' edition of “The Seventh Pillar,” the Academy’s student newspaper, was edited and printed in time for distribution at the Tuesday night meeting of volunteer workers and Corporators.
The special issue contained articles by students, faculty members, and leaders in the campaign. The entire issue was devoted to the drive and becomes the official publication of the campaign.
SEWICKLEY Y. M. C. A. FINANCE CAMPAIGN — JANUARY 20th to FEBRUARY 1st.
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jKIWANIS HARVEST FESTIVAL
115 tonight, at the ‘Y’, the annual ttgn for operating expenses for the a will start with a dinner for all Thirty-five teams, with an of five members each, will work ow until February 1st, to raise 1,000, in addition to the sum settle Special Gifts Committee, folder which has been sent- to citizens of the Valley, the of the YMCA is summar-Ithese words; “This Christian As-is our own, It continues its Jly to the extent and ill the man-Ithe generosity of the community 4de.
any years it has operated within
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ENJOYING Y’s OUTDOOR FACILITIES
its budget and, by comparison with like
organizations, very economically.......
This building and field, this organization, and this Christian purpose and program are essential to the boys and girls and youth of our Valley — to the health of the community. We must continue them in an adequate manner.”
Meetings next week of the campaign workers are scheduled for Tuesday, the 25th, and Friday, the 28th, Dr, Lockhart Amerman and John. Orndorff are co-chairmen of the drive. Further captains have been enlisted since last Week’s "Herald" as follows: Harry L. Staniland,
Mrs, John Bongiovanni, Henry Beighlea,
Mary McVicker, Mrs. L. A. Shadduck,
Mrs. John C, Oliver, Jr., Mrs. R. S. Richards, Jr., Mrs, John Meagher, Rev. David Wilson and Joseph Dury, Team workers have agreed to serve for every division:
Mrs, Earl Myers, Mrs, Dale Park, Mrs. Martha Milligan, Mrs. Clarence Vant, Miss Mary Polizotto, Miss Mnrjorie Wright, Mrs, C. J. Phillips, Mrs. II. E. Ennis, Mrs. Kenneth Swart, Mrs. Harold Irons, Mrs. John Orndorff, Russell Miller, Mrs. Edward Campbell, Mrs. Ward A. Wickwire, Jr., Mrs. F. J. Torrance Baker, Mrs, J. H, Childs, Jr., F. W. Okie, George Elirnstrorri, Mrs, Elliott G. Johnson, Jack Coulter, Mrs. Richard Lukens, Miss Betty Cenis, Mrs, Homer Fisher, Miss
GRA Y BOYS IN WORLD SERVICE
Mollie Williams, Miss I-Iettie Ruttkamp, Ralph B. Jackson, Rev, R. O. Reddish, Donald T. Peace, John Keeney, J. B. Haines, Clarence Vant, Malcolm Mac-farlane, A, K. Black III, Robinson Barker, Mrs. Charles Reott, Mrs. Robert Clarke, Mrs, Henry Beighlea, Mrs, Bert Jody, Mrs. Francis Foote, Mrs. Wm. Wilson, Mrs. George E. Poucher, Roy Hegner, Mrs. James Purdie, Mrs. Ross Buck, Mrs. Carl Wahl, Mrs, H. B. Cummins, Mrs. John D. Fitzgerald, Mrs. H. M, Culbertson, Mrs. Wm. Walter, Miss Margaret Kennedy, George Vincent, Mrs. Norton V. Coyle, Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, Mrs. Richard Tullis, Mrs. Hartón Semple, Mrs. Bradley Burns, Miss Jean Burk-
GIRL’S CLUB RECEIVES CHARTER
holder, Mrs. Gordon Bachman, Mrs. Francis Bames, Mrs. John Haines, Miss Janet Phillips, Mrs. Douglas Griesemer, MisS Barbara Burnham, Mrs. J. J. EdsOn III, Mrs, Robert Neil, Mrs. Ralph Smith, Miss Barbara Appleton, Miss Joan Young, Miss Elsie Young, Mrs. George B, Moore, Mrs. Harold Nelier, Jr,, Henry Stout,, Morton Burden, C, Kwk Stroll, Lacy B. Rich, Mrs, Frank Tuerk, Mrs, Kenneth Robinson, Miss Sara Murdock, Miss Marion Conradi, Mrs. T. H. Hunter, John G. Hiteshew, Dallas S. Irvine, W. G. Gourley, Herbert Trader, Miss Mary E. Hubbell and Mrs. Siebert,
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