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m| •#iWmmmSw.V; ZSBi-DEDICATING LENAPE Indian are (from left) James M. Lambert^ president, of Ridley School Board; Schools Supt. Robert V. Donato and Rdbert Hartley, president of the Class of 1968 who donated the sculptured .emblem,;'Em blem ofIndian*atRIDLEY TOWNSHIP — The figure of a Lenape Indian in a. b a s - r e 1 l.e f sculpture—the mascot emblem of Ridley High School—was dedicated Thursday night at the high school.The sculpture is the gift of the school’s Class of 1958 and is the work of Media sculptor James House, who w a scommissioned. by the classnearly three years ago to create the emblem.“The class wanted a Lenape Indian* because the Lenapes were the native Indians here when the white man arrived,” House explained., The • sculptor researched the Lenape tribe’s habits and dress at the University, of[ Pennsylvania museum before he began to create, the figure on the medallion which measures four foot, two inches in : diameter.I “Hie Indian is doing a war dance and is. bare to the waist and dressed in chaps and a loin cloth,” House said, ‘‘and.. he wears a dagger in a sheath around his neck; -A crown of hair runs down the /middle of his skull, set off by a feather.‘‘In his left hand the Indian holds a bow and two arrows and in in his right hand is the traditional war club and of course he’is wearing'moccasins on his fed;.”The sculptor created the Indian emblem over a .two-year period. It was molded in clay then cast in epoxy resinreinforced with fiberglass,“Fine bronze filings were mixed with the material and it was treated with acid to give the emblem the light green finish that it now has,” House said.A bronze plaque next to the sculpture tells the story of theRidley Raider, which is mounted! in the foyer outside the school’sgymnasium.Class president Robert Hartley said the class gift cost about $2400. and came from donations from the class 573 members and money which was left over in the class treasury.“We. didn’t know what to get as our. gift at the time we graduated, but since the schools merged we thought a new school crest would be. appropriate,” Hartley said;Ridley Township SchoolDistrict merged with thedistricts of Eddy stone andRidley Park in July of 1966, forming the Ridley ; SchoolDistrict. ,Hartley said the class officers along with class adviser Donald Lord held regular meetings on the selection of the class gift.Members of the class and school officials were on hand for the dedication of the Ridley Raider sculpture Thursday night. •» • Name of Iowaprominent inBy DOROTHY ABEL and THOMAS BURKEOne of the better-known traditions of the U.S: Navy has been their policy of' naming1 their ships in honor of the states of the Union. The name of Iowa has been prominent in naval history since the Civil War.In 1864, the first Iowa, a screw-cruiser, was ^ christened and _ took part in : the -1 latter portion of the struggle between the Union and the Confederacy.By the time -the second Iowa was commissioned in 1896, the Navy had begun naming only the battleships after the states.Two. years later, in the Spanish-American War, the Spanish Atlantic fleet had been bottled up in the harbor, of Santiago v de Cuba by an American squadron.When the Spanish admiral, Cervera, attempted to break through the American blockade,»series of international nava agreements which 11 m i t e i battleships to .35,000 tons. , ■..Japan withdrew from th pacts in 1936, and soon aJ nations were-' building large ships.The Iowa was the UniteStates’ first attempt' atr-buildin,a larger ship. She was 887 feelong, 108 feet across the beamand. carried 2,702 men at wa strength. Her 16-inch guns wer 66 feet long and could thro\ .a projectile 23 miles consistently hitting a target a 19 miles.The Iowa’s top speed was 3 knots, 6 knots faster than th 35,000-ton battleships. With he 16- to 19-inch thick armor belt; her total cost amounted to we over 100 million dollars.As was naval custom, th state Of Iowa nrpRpnted ho
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Delaware County Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Dec 31, 1971
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