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Building Pride/Building Character with PPS Students
Thanks to contributions from 11 corporations through the State's Educational Improvement
Tax Credit Program (EITC), PHLF is involving 12 Pittsburgh Public Schools in its "Building
Pride/Building Character" program of field trips and book-publishing projects this January
through June.
Fourth-grade students from Pittsburgh Dilworth toured their school and neighborhood in
February and will contribute their ideas and artwork to a book tentatively titled, Exploring
Places: Connecting to the Real World.
Fifth-grade students from Pittsburgh Phillips, Banksville, and Colfax toured Carnegie Mellon
University in January and February and developed their skills as explorers, artists, and poets.
Click here to read one of the three poetry and art books published by PHLF for each school.
Click here to see 20 photos of the neighborhood and Carnegie Mellon University field trips.
We thank the following corporations for contributing to PHLF in 2012 through the EITC
program: Huntington Bank, PNC Bank, BNY Mellon, Allegheny Technologies Incorporated,
Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Company, ESB Bank, UPMC, Eat'n Park Hospitality Group, Inc.,
Hefren-Tillotson, Inc., Maher Duessel, CPA, and Bridges & Company, Inc.
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PSO and PHLF Partner for Heinz Chapel Event
Click here for details about a special event the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is hosting
during its "Music for the Spirit Festival" on Sunday, April 21 at Heinz Memorial Chapel, in
collaboration with PHLF. World-renowned organist Paul Jacobs will perform one of Bach's
most stunning and challenging masterpieces, the Clavier Ubung III.
Heinz Chapel celebrates its 75th anniversary this year and PHLF will provide information on
stained glass artist Charles Connick during the April 21 event. In a speech Connick delivered
in Heinz Chapel on April 19, 1941, he quoted benefactor Howard Heinz as saying: "Come and
listen and watch the windows. See what an accompaniment they furnish for choir and organ––
see how they all sing together."
We hope you can attend this special event celebrating music, light, and architecture.
http://pso.culturaldistrict.org/production/35911/organist-paul-jacobs
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Docent Feature: Barb Sarvey and Phil Johnson
Almost every day of the year, PHLF's education staff and docents are out leading tours for
schools and private groups or presenting programs on Pittsburgh's history and architecture.
Barb Sarvey, from Butler County, makes a special effort to come to Pittsburgh to lead tours
for PHLF. She became a docent in 2009, after she and her family attended one of PHLF's Jail
Museum tours. She especially enjoys leading the Strip Stroll and Grant Street, Bridges &
More, and Market Square Area walking tours. "There's nothing like seeing the expressions on
people's faces when they look up to see the Union Trust Building skylight," says Barb. "I love
Pittsburgh and enjoy sharing the special places in our city with others."
Phil Johnson, also a docent since 2009, lives in Mt. Lebanon and owns More than Words Fine
Paper LLC on Washington Road. He especially likes leading the Washington Road walking
tour PHLF offers every year to all second-grade students in Mt. Lebanon. "Giving young
students the chance to explore a historic main street and see the beauty of the buildings is a
great experience. Their surprise at seeing the carved eagles, lions, owls, and snakes that
decorate the buildings makes me appreciate the streetscape even more."
Through their love of the city, belief in our mission, and commitment of time and energy, each
one of our docents helps PHLF carry out its work of renewing communities and building
pride.
If you are eager to learn about Pittsburgh and enjoy walking and exploring outdoors,
then become a PHLF docent. Please contact Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808, ext. 527) for
further information or click here.
http://www.phlf.org/volunteer-opportunities/
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Mystery Photo
If you know where this mystery photo detail is from, contact Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808,
ext. 527) with the building name.
Hint: Charles Connick designed all the grisaille windows in this Scottish church.
Congratulations to four members who correctly identified last month's mystery photo of a
detail from the former Lemington School, a buff-brick building designed in 1917 by Marion
M. Steen with elaborate and colorful terra-cotta ornamentation.
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