Roland Park Makes Fast Start on $25 Million Capital Campaign

10/03/2007- Roland Park Country School

The Roland Park Country School Board of Trustees and President Jeffrey H. Seibert are pleased to announce a $25 million dollar capital campaign, A Place in our Hearts, to build a new athletic complex on the School's North Baltimore campus - the third and final stage of a Campus Master Plan begun in the early 1990s.

In addition, campaign proceeds will seek endowment for faculty compensation and student financial assistance.  Head of School Jean Waller Brune gratefully joins Campaign co-chairs Helen and E. Magruder Passano, Jr. and Leadership Gifts Chair Fred C. C. Crozier in reporting that early commitments now total $15 million, including an outright gift of $5 million - a first for the hundred year old independent school for girls, serving an economically and geographically diverse population of students in Grades K-12. Early support also includes a pledge of two million dollars and two pledges at one million each.

The new athletic complex will house three teaching gyms and one main competition court, additional classroom and meeting space, locker rooms for RPCS students, visiting teams and officials, a suspended running track, a rowing tank for crew (the first of its kind in a Maryland high school), a horizontal climbing wall, a fitness center and a daycare facility for employee children under three years of age. RPCS will also have two synthetic turf fields and a newly landscaped parking lot for employees and students.

The project designed by Bowie Gridley Architects as an environmentally responsible "green" building both inside and out, with construction by Roy Kirby & Sons, is expected to be completed in August 2008. Fundraising will continue through 2010. 

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