82 Acres Given
Quaker Valley
For School Site
The Quaker Valley School District administration said yesterday it now has
title to an 82-acre site in Bell Acres
Borough purchased by the W. P. Snyder Charitable Fund and given to the
nchool system.
The property, at the corner of Fern
follow and Camp Meeting roads, will
figure in the school district's future construction plans.
Although the site has approval of educational authorities as a potential location for a high school, another site is
under consideration.
Trustees for the fund, which has donated the site, an innovation in giving
in this county, according to school officials are W. P. Snyder III; G. Whitney
Snyder, president of the Sewickley
Heights Borough Council; and John K.
Foster, a former Quaker Valley school
board member.
Supervising Principal G. V. Bedison
said the school board is restudying
building plans for the district. Communities involved are expected to grow with
the opening of future highways.
The school district, which serves 2,900
pupils in kindergarten through twelfth
grade, has its eight buildings at 90 per
cent of capacity, according to Bedison,
and most of the elementary schools are
more than 60 years old.
The school district operates within the
communities of Edgeworth, Bell Acres,
Glenfield, Haysville, Leetsdale, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, and Sewickley
Hills boroughs and Aleppo and Leet
townships.
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