Wick Donates to UPB Chapel
Longtime University of Pittsburgh at Bradford supporter Harriett B. Wick has made a $500,000 donation to the proposed interfaith chapel on campus in honor of her grandson, Michael Quinn Wick, who died in a 2005 automobile accident.
The sanctuary of the chapel will be named in honor of Michael Wick and will be a nearly all-glass room with a ceiling that will sweep upward.
Michael Wick was an artist and taxidermist who graduated from Bradford Central Christian High School in 1991. He attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and graduated from the Pennsylvania Institute of Taxidermy in Ebensburg in 2000.
He owned and operated Artistic Outdoors Taxidermy Shop and was an accomplished outdoorsman, receiving many awards and trophies for both saltwater and freshwater tournaments.
In May, anonymous donors made a $1 million gift toward the construction of the $2.5 million chapel in honor of Harriett Wick.
Albert Filoni president of MacLachlan, Cornelius and Filoni Architects Inc. of Pittsburgh designed the chapel, which university officials hope to break ground on in the spring. The firm also designed the renovation and expansion of the Frame-Westerberg Commons and Blaisdell Hall on campus.
Since Pitt-Bradford is a state-related university, money from the commonwealth usually pays for a large part of the construction costs for a new building. Because of the unique use of the chapel, however, private funding is the only source of money for its construction.
Harriett Wick served as vice president and secretary of Zippo Manufacturing Co., which was founded by her father, George G. Blaisdell, in Bradford in 1932. She and her sister, Sarah B. Dorn, assumed ownership of the company following their father’s death in 1978.
Through the Philo and Sarah Blaisdell Foundation, the sisters have given funds to the university for capital improvements. As part of Campaign 2000, the Blaisdell family provided a $1.5 million challenge gift to complete the communications building and fine arts center named in their honor.
In 1980, Wick and Dorn established the Miriam Barcroft Blaisdell Scholarship at Pitt-Bradford in honor of their mother to help support approximately 65 students every year at Pitt-Bradford. More than 2,000 students have benefited so far from the scholarship.
Wick and Dorn received the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Presidential Medal of Distinction in 1993.
Read a previous story on the chapel here.
The sanctuary of the chapel will be named in honor of Michael Wick and will be a nearly all-glass room with a ceiling that will sweep upward.
Michael Wick was an artist and taxidermist who graduated from Bradford Central Christian High School in 1991. He attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and graduated from the Pennsylvania Institute of Taxidermy in Ebensburg in 2000.
He owned and operated Artistic Outdoors Taxidermy Shop and was an accomplished outdoorsman, receiving many awards and trophies for both saltwater and freshwater tournaments.
In May, anonymous donors made a $1 million gift toward the construction of the $2.5 million chapel in honor of Harriett Wick.
Albert Filoni president of MacLachlan, Cornelius and Filoni Architects Inc. of Pittsburgh designed the chapel, which university officials hope to break ground on in the spring. The firm also designed the renovation and expansion of the Frame-Westerberg Commons and Blaisdell Hall on campus.
Since Pitt-Bradford is a state-related university, money from the commonwealth usually pays for a large part of the construction costs for a new building. Because of the unique use of the chapel, however, private funding is the only source of money for its construction.
Harriett Wick served as vice president and secretary of Zippo Manufacturing Co., which was founded by her father, George G. Blaisdell, in Bradford in 1932. She and her sister, Sarah B. Dorn, assumed ownership of the company following their father’s death in 1978.
Through the Philo and Sarah Blaisdell Foundation, the sisters have given funds to the university for capital improvements. As part of Campaign 2000, the Blaisdell family provided a $1.5 million challenge gift to complete the communications building and fine arts center named in their honor.
In 1980, Wick and Dorn established the Miriam Barcroft Blaisdell Scholarship at Pitt-Bradford in honor of their mother to help support approximately 65 students every year at Pitt-Bradford. More than 2,000 students have benefited so far from the scholarship.
Wick and Dorn received the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Presidential Medal of Distinction in 1993.
Read a previous story on the chapel here.
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