Hyde Park High branch proposal debated at Chicago school board
A plan to place 450 Hyde Park High School freshmen at Murray School in September 1965 was filed as an information report. Ben Willis and James Clement clashed over mobile classroom units and potential effects on feeder schools and integration, with Clement demanding more information and community input before any move.
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Hyde Park
Murray School
Chicago
Benjamin C. Willis
James Clement
Hyde Park Blvd
Clement
Murray
Armstrong
Willis
Himself
Bret Harte
Ray
Kozminski
Shoesmith
Hyde Park High School
Hyde Park residents protest five townhouse plan at Zoning Board
Eight residents spoke against Richard Swift's plan to build five two story townhouses at 54th and Blackstone, citing reduced side yard, wall proximity to a neighbor, and loss of value to adjacent properties. The board took the case under advisement after debate with Alderman Despres and community groups.
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Hyde Park
Zoning Board of Appeals
54Th and
Blackstone
Richard Swift
Dor
Chester
Tion
Department of Urban Renewal
Emmett Harnett
Zoning Appeals Board
Swift
R. J. Blakely
William Erickson
Seminary plans spark debate on site for Lutheran School
A record crowd attended a presentation on the Lutheran School of Theology’s proposed site in the 2000 block of Greenwood at Breasted Hall, University of Chicago. Black group members surrounded Dr. Stewart Herman as about 100 students questioned razing the Greenwood block for housing, while the Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference urged no expansion, noting no alternate sites meet the seminary’s needs.
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Lutheran School of Theology
Greenwood
Breasted Hall
University of Chicago
Stewart Herman
Woodlawn University
Hyde Park-Kenwood
Revels next week at Quadrangle Club feature university president
The bas relief of the president of the University of Nippur will be shown March 12 and 13 during Revels in the Quadrangle Club. Cast secrecy hides the actor, with the show It’s About Time written by Robert Ashenhurst and Robert Pollak.
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University of Nippur
Robert Ashenhurst
Robert Pollak
Margrette Dornbusch
E. 49Th
Patricia Erfurth
Dorchester
Harper Theater
Harper
Charles A. Daly
Greenwood
Roland Bailey
Everett
Rockefeller Chapel
Unitarian Church Choir
Irving Harris
Kimbark
Julia Storm
Joyce Heinrickson
E. 55Th
Emily Meyer
Conference asks mayor to halt Outer Drive changes
Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference asks Mayor Daley to stop proposed alterations to Outer Drive and Jackson Park. The group cites a promised revised plan not shown since last May and urges adherence to President Johnson’s recreation area directives to protect the park from a Class One Federal Highway. Over 5,000 petitions oppose changes and were delivered to the mayor’s office.
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Hyde Park
Kenwood
Daley
Outher Drive
Jackson Park
Johnson
Hyde Park Herald corrects PTA meeting attribution
In the February issue an error attributed a statement to Mrs Ernest Mond of 5436 Hyde Park Blvd. Mrs Mond was not at the meeting and could not have made the remark. The Herald apologizes for the mistaken attribution and any embarrassment caused.
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The
Hyde Park Herald
Hyde Park High School
PTA
Ernest Mond
Hyde Park Blvd
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Frank Whiston
Zoning Board
Adrienne Harber
Leon M. Despres
E. Soth
Despres
Mary Elizabeth Droste
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