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Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn, New York • 3

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Brooklyn Recordi
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Brooklyn, New York
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BROOKLYN RECORD BAY RIDGE RECORD Flat bush Record Phone: TRiangle 5-8230 Page 3 Friday, October 15, 1954 Burgoyne Donates $tirt Work A r-nntvi'KiitiAti Goundbreaking ceremonies launching- the construction of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Garden of Fragrance for the Blind will be held Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. on the site HARVEST FESTIVAL A Harvest Festival at the Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church Home will be held Saturday, October 30th, from 2 to 5:30. Entertainment will be held in the Chapel at 2:30. Candy, cake, ice cream, and useful articles will be on sale in the foyer and dining room. A donation, marked with the name of the donor will be the admission.

Mrs. William J. Thomson, is chairman, and she will be assisted by Mrs. Philip Dahl, Mrs. Hartley J.

Hartman and Miss Eleanor Porter. i wa the erection and equipment of a Science Hall on the Hillcrest campus of St. John's University was announced "by Very Rev. John A. Flynn, President of St.

John's. It is the gift of "William L. Burgoyne, President of the Burgoyne Aircraft Engineering and Maintenance Corporation and will be used for a Biology Laboratory, Father Flynn said. Mr. Burgoyne, who, with his family lives at Lake Success in Nassau County, is a charter member of the Council of St.

John's University, an organization of lead- ef nnii' n-n lvl primarily in matters of finance. It is engaged in raising a fun of $25,000,000 for the of a 13-building project to go up on the 100-acre site of the new campus, the former Hillcrest Golf Club, Jamaica an for an additional 15-story structure to be erected on the Downtown Brooklyn campus. The first of these buildings, St. John's College, is now under construction and is expected to be ready for occupancy in September. The Science Hall, at a cost of is next on the is the immediate object of the Council's fund-raising efforts.

To date toward the erection and, highly specialized equipment of this building has been realized. niences will help make sightless The ceremonies, held in conjunction with the annual Fall Paj'ty for members of. the Garden and their "Avill be repeated Thursday evening: to accommodate the large number of expected I ing business executives, bankers, and professional men, which serves i in an advisory capacity to the Uni- versity Administration, functioning visitors enjoy their tour. The Members' Party program will get under way at 7:30 p.m. with a tour of the newly renovated tropical greenhouse and a display of greenhouse crysanthemums.

On exhibit in the members' room of the administration building will be flower and landscape paintings by three contemporary artists Wil-helmina F. Greene, Regine Gilbert, and Hazel King Tillman. Following the groundbreaking exercises, the group will adjourn to the recently remodeled auditorium where Leonard P. Moore, chairman of the Garden's Governing Committee, will make his report to the members. guests.

On both evenings, guests of honor at the groundbreaking will be 4-year-old Karen Starcle, of 34 Plymouth Road, Port Washington, a member of the Industrial Home for the -Blind's day nursery group who has been chosen the Garden of Fragance "poster girl," and David Margolis, of 352 Berriman and his seeing-eye dog "Cindy." Mrs. Samuel P. Bailey, president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Women's Auxiliary, sponsors ol the garden for sightless persons, said completion of the garden is expected this coming spring. More than half of the $50,000 goal has already been raised, she said. Other speakers will include Mrs.

Bailey, making a progress report on the Garden of Fragrance; Mrs. Thomas H. Roulston, talking on in Glaze:" and Dr. The garden, featuring aromatic George S. Avery, director of and delightfully textured plants, the Garden, who will give a slide-will occupy a acre site ad-j illustrated lecture, "The Atlas and joining the north end of the ad- the Pyrenees," dealing with his ministration building, 1000 Wash- participation in expeditions to ington Ave.

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Pages Available:
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Years Available:
1953-1964