Hyde Park School Issue Sparks PTA Resolution
The Philip Murray PTA unanimously urged keeping Philip Murray as an elementary school due to its quality and concerns over transferring students to Ray and Shoemith. Hyde Park Kenwood groups discuss using Murray as a ninth grade center with a new high school at 71st and Cottage Grove and reconfiguring Hyde Park High as a Woodlawn center.
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Philip Murray Pta
Philip Murray
Ray and Shoesmith
Hyde Park
Beatrice Brodsky
Dorchester
Hyde Park-Kenwood
Chicago School Administration
71St
Cottage Grove
Stony Island
Woodlawn
Hyde Park High School
Hirsch’s. the Schools Committee
Woodlawn Community Services Association
Milton Cohler
Hyde Park High Pta
Ray Marks
Murray School
Murray
53Rd
Kenwood
Kenwood School
50Th
Blackstone
Kozminski
Ingleside
Shakespeare
Carnegie and Fisk
Ray School
Protesters press Lutherans over site plan for seminary
Hyde Park block clubs report petitions with over 4100 signatures to the Lutheran School of Theology board regarding the University area site. The board says action cannot be reviewed as demolition begins late summer and construction around November proceeds, despite protests and calls for good faith negotiations.
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Hyde Park
Lutheran School of Theology
Eugene D. Feit
University
University-Greenwood
Woodlawn University
Lutheran School
Stewart W. Herman
Herman
Seminary
Block Club
Hyde Park housing clash over Lutheran seminary site plan
Hyde Park residents protest a Lutheran seminary proposal to build on vacant institutional land amid demands for well kept moderate rental housing. Black community members vote to intensify action against a proposed 55th and Greenwood academic complex and threaten a live in for tenants resisting eviction.
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Hyde Park
Feit
Black Club
55Th
Greenwood
Catholic Seminary
University of Chicago
May= wood
Douglas presents Lincoln portrait at Ray School
U S Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois made a special presentation of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln to Ray School at 56th and Kimbark last Tuesday morning. District 14 Schools official Curtis C. Mellnick and Ray School principal Mrs. Mary Knaus joined Douglas in the ceremony with Ray students present.
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U.S
Paul Douglas
D. Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Ray School
56Th
Kimbark
Curtis C. Melnick
Sen
Douglas
Mary Knaus
Ray
Sen. Douglas
Barbara Carey
Park District leaders discuss Outer Drive plans and park facilities
Erwin Weiner and Max Matz of the Chicago Park District will meet a group to review new recreation facilities in the Outer Drive remodeling project from 47th to 57th Streets. The plan covers lakefront facilities, playgrounds, landscaping, promenades, and beach use during construction, with public input invited.
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Erwin Weiner
Chicago Park District
Max Matz
Park District
Lake Front
47Th
59Th
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Julian Levi
South East Chicago Commission
Levi
Vatican
Rome
Lutheran
Lincoln
Parks Top Brass
Ira Marks
Beach A Parks Committee of
Everett-South Shore
Ea View Park
Cass Goldberg
Everett
Chaiman
Marks
Block Group
P Lic
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