DECEMBER
FEBRUARY
New Scho o Include E l to ast Wing Park Pare nt
SPRI NG 1 9 71
M AY
Brookline Buys Old School
For more than a year, Trustee Dick Smith helped negotiate the sale of the old campus at Kennard and Hedge Roads to the Town of Brookline. In February , he reported to the Board that the Town had agreed to a sale/leaseback arrangement for a fee of ,.
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C O N C L U D E S
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MARCH
Cooperative Spirit
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There was a real feel that we were all in this together — and that it couldn’t go wrong! Faculty and parents truly loved the School for the School’s sake. Not for the personal glory, academic success, or the money. When the Trustees thanked Charlie Cunningham for all his work on behalf of the School, he was genuinely moved to tears. — Ruth Williams
All Park families, friends and neighbors are invited to the Cornerstone Ceremony at the new school. Goddard Avenue, Brookline, on Saturday, December th at a.m. In the interest of safety, parents MUST accompany children. After this brief ceremony, the Building Committee will conduct tours of the construction site.
Supports for the forms for the concrete beams which will support the roof beams of the gym were being built. Concrete poured the previous day was drying and being kept from freezing by powerful heaters. The Park Parent, February
The Park Parent, January
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I like this building. It’s complex. It has many levels and the land contour is interesting, unusual. It’s an involved project. Makes some others seem like square chicken coops. — John T. Plugis, The Park Parent, June 1971
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John Plugis was an excellent clerk of the works — the School was really lucky to have him.
The Park Parent asks Clerk of the Works John T. Plugis to write a monthly column entitled “What’s in the Works?” to update the Park community about the building’s progress. You rascals who have not visited here since the Cornerstone Ceremony will enjoy learning that the East Wing roof has been poured; ditto floor slab Level and Level ; that the Exterior and Interior masonry has advanced well as have both East and West Wings; and that the installation of window frames, including glazing is almost complete — as are the Dining, Science and Art rooms.
In the late spring, it looked as if the new building would not be finished in September. Bob Hurlbut begins making elaborate plans for a phased move. Nursery through Grade II would go to the new school in September because they didn’t need the gymnasiums to be complete; the other grades would move during winter vacation.
The Park Parent, March
— Dick Leahy
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WINTER 1970–1971