Description
Christian service was a reality here when a group of Park college men went to work on a project to re-roof and repair the Negro church in Parkville. College men worked on the project Armistice Day in last Saturday afternoon. The project is under the direction of Robert Laird, Helena, Montana, and Virginia Brunson, Leavenworth, Kansas, student leaders of a Community Problems commission of the campus "Y" organizations. Partial cost of the project is being financed by chapel pledges of college students.
After conference conferences with Reverend P. H. Yates and other community leaders, the college group selected three projects which they will carry on throughout the year. In addition to the church project which is headed by John McAfee, great grandson of the colleges founder, the development of a library for the Negro school and running water lines into the Negro church and school are being planned.
Shelves for the library are being constructed by Jasper Civello in the Italian Community Center in Kansas City and books are being collected from college students and their friends. Frank Procoppio is head of the water project and a survey of the line will be made soon. Ladies of the church have provided dinners for the workers.
(Researcher's note: Local Parkville historians believe that the church being renovated was the Washington Chapel C.M.E. Church, a historic Christian Methodist Episcopal church located at 1137 West Street in Parkville, Platte County, Missouri. It was built in 1907, and is a two-story, rectangular, Late Gothic Revival style native limestone building. It has a gable roof and features a castellated corner tower and projecting bays.)Date(s) of Creation
11/21/1941