If you would like to see the magnificent SMSA school building and its facilities restored to their original grandeur, consider a gift to the Cornerstone Project. Begun in 2002 and headed by retired local physician Dr. Dan O’Keeffe, the Cornerstone Project gratefully welcomes gifts of all sizes and offers naming opportunities to individuals, families, classes, foundations and businesses donating $12,500 or more.
Generous Cornerstone givers have already donated more than $1,200,000 to renovate many parts of the school, providing a new generation of students with a brighter, warmer, more efficient, comfortable and up-to-date building.
The Robert J. Nolan Gymnasium, for example, is once again a proud home court for the Kerry Blue basketball teams. The Msgr. Daniel Curtin Science Lab houses equipment for a new high-school level Regents biology class for eighth-graders. In the Thomas V. and Elizabeth E. Meath Clay Studio, children nurture their creativity molding figurines and throwing pots. And the Elizabeth Doyle Playground is now a lush green lawn -- the best field around for kickball and freeze tag.
Please call Sally Behan in the Development Office (518) 792-3178 x1007 or email her at sbehan@smsaschool.org
Much work remains to be done. Your gift, for example, could help provide furniture for the library, improved heat to the Great Hall, paint and carpet in the Chapel or brand new locker rooms for the Kerry Blues!