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One
more event that Fran deserves tremendous credit for organizing is the annual
Veteran's Day commemoration at the Gettysburg Stone. While it
doesn't draw a large crowd (perhaps because so many folks are across the street
watching their kids play soccer!) Fran's efforts each year have included
recruiting local police officers, scouts, students from the HMS school, and
special speakers including Civil War re-enactors. One year we were
"entertained" by a display of the surgical instruments that would have been used
at Satterlee Field Hospital (situated on what is now the northern part of the
park), and descriptions of the treatments wounded soldiers would have
endured.
Thank
you Fran, for everything you do!
Kathleen
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony
West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:58
PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [UC] Park
volunteers honored
The Philadelphia Recreation Advisory Council last
night included two well-known Clark Park volunteers in its annual awards
program.
Fran Byers was given a "Distinguished Service
Award" for more than 30 years of service to the park. Byers, who has lived all
her life on Baltimore Ave., is a founding member of Friends of Clark Park
and has, over the years, filled every imaginable office for that group. She
was a driving force behind the fight to keep the "Little Nell" statue from
being removed. Currently she sits on the Board of Directors. She helps to pull
together the "Bark in the Park" f�te for dogs and their owners, the outdoor
Christmas caroling, and the Dickens Birthday Party celebration.
Paul Brooks was given an "Adult Volunteer" award.
Brooks, who lives on Regent St., has been active in FoCP for more than 10
years. He is a former president of the organization. Currently he organizes
the hugely successful Clark Park Youth Soccer Program. Brooks founded CPYSL
and has built it up from scratch since then. Today it provides 120 children on
20 spring and fall Saturdays with low-competition soccer. It is one of only
two youth soccer programs in West Philadelphia and serves a diverse group of
kids from far and wide.
-- Tony West
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