Page 19 - Priorities #32 2005-November

Imagine the Possibilities the Trinity Project Will Unleash!
The Trinity Project provides the tools needed to continue to fulfill the Priory’s mission to assist students of promise in becoming lifelong learners who will productively serve a world in need of their gifts. Every student benefits from the Trinity Project; higher quality facilities simply result in a better educational environment. All faculty and students will feel the positive impact.
Imagine the possibilities when the Trinity Project is complete! Here are just a few glimpses into the future: • A shop and workspace that allow students to build and store drama sets or other projects for a variety of disciplines.
• Central space to display the best of student visual arts or visiting works of art.
• Centrally-located space to house student dances, all-school assemblies, and myriad performances in a room with quality acoustics that enhance the experience.
• A reading room in a garden setting with comfortable furniture where students can read for pleasure or study quietly in groups.
• A comfortable indoor area where students can meet when they are not in class.
• Much-needed classroom space.
• A beautifully-renovated and expanded library designed to handle a variety of needs.
• Twenty percent more library book space and double the technology classrooms—housed together in one building.
Generous Priory families and friends have already joined in supporting the Trinity Project. One recent gift of $400,000, which was just received from parents of the Class of 2005, is especially appreciated because it brings us closer to this goal NOW, said Kerry Gormley, Capital Campaign Director. The Priory cannot break ground on the first leg of the project—the auditorium, new classrooms, and performing arts center space— until 80% of the funding is in hand. We need to reach this goal by the spring for many reasons, she said.
“Once groundbreaking begins, we hope everyone will join in supporting this milestone in the Priory’s history. Everyone will be receiving more information in the mail,” she said. People interested in more information now are invited to contact Tim Molak at (650) 851-8221 or tmolak@woodsidepriory.com or Kerry Gormley at (650) 851-6116 or kgormley@woodsidepriory.com.
Library and Media Center
The library will leave its current site below the dining hall and return to its original location alongside Church Square. The renovated space will merge technology, new media, and a modern yet comfortable library
that encourages scholarly exploration and the love of reading.
The intention of the new center is to integrate traditional media (books, periodicals, and other printed materials) with the new
media made available by technology (online resources, electronic libraries, research databases and the like). This center will affirm the Priory’s dedication to make better use of technology to learn and teach.
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Update
Trinity Project
• Performing Arts Center with All-School Auditorium
& New Classrooms
• Renovated and expanded Library & Media/Technology Center
• New Student Center
$6.7 milllion committed towards $11 million goal. For groundbreaking, 80% of funds
needed in hand— goal is Spring 2006.
Endowment
Nearly $2.2 million is pledged towards $5 million gaol. Current effort is the drive to fund scholarships named for Priory Benedictine fathers
(the “Father Funds”).
Maas Family Commons Completed and occupied in 2003.
Two Apartments Constructed, One Home Renovated Projects completed in 2001.