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Happy Birthday, Clarence Ward!, continued

Photos and text by Linda Grashoff

 

Happy Birthday, Clarence Ward! (beginning of story)


Everyone in the art library is getting ready for the party--including Artemis . . .


. . . and David and Goliath.

 


 

 


A life-size cardboard facsimile of Clarence Ward himself invites library patrons to the party.
 
Prior adds a few more Anchor Blocks to a display case.

 

Not only did Clarence Ward make the model of the East Oberlin Community Church, but he also designed the church itself, which was built in 1930, and served as its pastor from 1929 to 1947. Ward was the architect of the Oberlin College President's House, 154 Forest Street, which Geoffrey Blodgett, Danforth Professor of History, calls--in Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to Its Social History--"the town's most satisfying model of neo-Georgian architecture."

 

 

 

 

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