South Campus Campaign: The Tower Phase

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Mission The mission of Chandler School is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. We strive to have our students gain a love of learning, a means of thinking independently and an ability to work collaboratively. A Chandler education seeks to develop good character, self-reliance and a commitment to community in students as a foundation for academic and personal success.

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What are we building?

The Tower Phase will add an attractive new entrance facility built into the steep hillside below the Middle School on Seco Street. A two-story, partially underground parking structure will add 63 spaces to existing parking. Each of the two parking levels will have separate entrances and exits. Encased in and rising above the parking structure will be a tower with a handicapped-accessible elevator and wraparound steps.

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What are the benefits?

Improved school facilities send a message that education is important and help foster an environment that emphasizes respect for learning and pride in the essence of the school. As the gateway to the South Campus, the new facility will reinforce the School’s high standards of excellence. The attractive new entryway greatly enhances the School’s visibility in the community and more accurately reflects the School’s prestigious stature as a pre-eminent K-8 institution in the San Gabriel Valley area. Simply put, the facility will serve as a more inviting and welcoming front door for all students, parents and friends.

In addition, there are important practical benefits to the new Tower pavilion: • Provides safer venue for student pick up and drop off.

• Facilitates more efficient and speedier arrival and departure process.

• Makes Chandler more approachable for students and visitors with special needs.

• Enables Chandler School to be a better neighbor by providing ample off-street parking, improving traffic flow and reducing congestion.

• Reduces significant burden and commute time for faculty and staff who have been shuttled between campus and a remote site for several years.

• Helps Chandler mitigate environmental impact by offering electric vehicle charging stations.

• Offers closer, more convenient parking for most school events thereby limiting excessive foot traffic across the central playing field.

• Meets modern safety codes.

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Why build at all?

Building projects are necessary for all great schools to protect their mission and enhance the quality of their educational program, and this is no exception for Chandler School. Throughout its nearly 65 years, the School has been the beneficiary of generous stewardship by its families and friends.

They have supported the capital improvements necessary to serve the School’s growing student body and rapidly evolving curriculum at each stage of Chandler’s growth and development.

By 2005 it was clear to the Chandler community that existing Middle School facilities could no longer fulfill the mission of the school. Facilities that had been built in the 1970s to serve roughly 60 high school students were woefully inadequate to support more than three times that number of Middle School students, not to mention support visual and performing arts programs and more for the entire student and parent community. A three-year planning and strategy process followed, culminating in a new master plan for the School.

The master plan called for a major investment in the South Campus physical plant. The first phase was completed for the start of 2011-12: a new Middle School classroom building with a library/media center, three science labs and a multi-purpose auditorium. The plan also included a new entrance facility off Seco to enhance the school’s visibility to the community and provide additional parking and handicapped access to the campus. Trustees had hoped to raise funds for the entire South Campus plan before building but were faced with a slumping economy and decided to “pay it forward” and phase in improvements over time.

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Why do we need to build it now?

Chandler School is required by the City of Pasadena to complete the second phase of its South Campus renovations – a handicapped-accessible elevator tower and parking facility – by the fall of 2014. This was a condition for allowing the school to increase its enrollment and spread out its improvements over time.

The City of Pasadena approved the Chandler master plan in 2008 and in doing so, agreed to increase the maximum enrollment cap for the school to 450 students with the completion of the first phase of construction. The increase in enrollment cap meant that more students could be offered admission and benefit from a Chandler education several years sooner than the completion of the entire South Campus plan. The City took the unusual step of allowing the project to go forward ahead of its parking facility in recognition that Chandler School is a prestigious educational institution and serves as an important draw for the Pasadena area.

However, as part of the approval process, the City of Pasadena also required that the campus improvements include additional parking and accessibility for handicapped students and visitors and placed a time restriction on when the rest of the work had to be done.

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What will it cost?

The School has set a fundraising goal of about $9 million for this phase. The largest chunk of those funds – about $6.5 million – is needed to pay for the complex engineering and construction required to build the Tower complex into the steep slope. The remaining portion of the Tower Phase goal, about $2.5 million, is necessary to finish paying for the first and larger phase of the South Campus Campaign.

The plans for the new Tower facility maximize usage of the existing property to the fullest advantage. Utilizing the hillside and property immediately bordering Seco Street for the entrance preserves valuable spaces dedicated for classrooms, athletic and recreational programming and social gathering.

Before construction was approved, trustees spent nearly a year carefully vetting building plans, looking for ways to reduce projected costs while at the same time protecting the new South Campus improvements sitting above. The school’s plans also were reviewed extensively by a series of outside consultants, including architects and construction firms specializing in parking facilities, all of whom concluded that the current plan underway is the safest, most cost effective course of action.

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Why should you participate?

Philanthropy is a distinguishing hallmark of all independent schools. If you have chosen to send your child to an independent school such as Chandler, then you understand that tuition does not cover the full cost of educating your child and that fundraising initiatives, including those for capital projects, are necessary to support its mission. Others before you made possible through their generous contributions the beautiful campus your child benefits from today: extensive renovations to the Lower School in 2000-01 and the first phase of the South Campus Middle School in 2011-12. It is now your turn to pick up the mantle of stewardship that has sustained and nourished the school and support this project to the best of your ability.

GIFT RECOGNITION CIRCLES Chandler School is deeply grateful to its leadership donors and provides additional recognition for their generosity.

Chandler $1 million and above 1950 $500,000 to $999,999 Armada $250,000 to $499,999 Point $100,000 to $249,999 Tower $50,000 to $99,000 Tower Families

All families who make gifts of $50,000 or more during the Tower Phase will be recognized as Tower Families. Their names will be permanently inscribed on a donor wall to be installed on the Tower.

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Arroyo $30,000 to $49,999 Deodar $10,000 to $29,999

Tower Footsteps

All families who make gifts of $100,000 or more during the Tower Phase will be additionally honored with their names listed along the interior Tower walls.

Clover Gifts below $10,000

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Are there naming opportunities?

There are opportunities to name the

Tower Phase Naming Opportunities

Tower or parking center with gifts of $1 million or more; to name the main entrance vestibule or top lookout landing with gifts of $500,000 or more; to name the middle lookout landing or lower stairwell landing with gifts of $250,000 or more, and to endow faculty parking spaces for $150,000. There also remain naming opportunities from the first phase of the South Campus Campaign.

Phase 1 Naming Opportunities

oakesford Classroom 8TH EngLisH

$1 million+ Tower Parking Center Center Courtyard

Kohorst/Allen Family Foundation Classroom 8TH HisToRy

David and Leon Kuo Classroom Third Floor

8th Spanish

$500,000+ Main Vestibule Top Landing Lookout $250,000 Middle Landing Lookout Lower Stairwell Landing Athletic Locker Facilities Lower School Art Room

8TH MATH

Ameur The Rivas Debbie and Family Thomas Mitchell Boumajdi Classroom Classroom Classroom

7TH HisToRy

7TH sPAnisH

Lower School Art Room

7TH MATH

The Chang Family Classroom

Field

7TH EngLisH

The Evensen Family outdoor Court Trophy Room

s. Allan Johnson and Marguerite L. Johnson Library and Media Center

Gymnasium

Center Courtyard Trevessa and James Terrile Pillars

Trophy Room

Second Floor gregory D. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Jennifer W. neithart Johnson science Lab science Lab

The Leong Family Classroom 6TH HisToRy

$150,000+ Endowed Faculty Parking Spaces Learning Lab 6th Grade Spanish Classroom 8th Grade Spanish Classroom Athletic Trophy Rooms (2)

8TH gRADE

science Lab

6TH gRADE

7TH gRADE

Mr. and Mrs. David Chao Classroom 6TH EngLisH

Chandler School SouthCampuS

Jeff Han Music Room

REsERVED Naming Opportunity

Allen and Annie Teng Classroom 6TH MATH

6th Spanish

Learning Lab

First Floor The Ahmanson Foundation Performing Arts Center

Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Johnston Middle School Office and Reception Area

Elevator Restroom stair

The Rothenberg Family Courtyard

Middle School Entry Patio

Dickerson Point

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2014-2015 CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES President Matthew G. Wright ’74 CHS ’78 Members Sushma Adarkar Michael R. Albrecht Geoffrey C. Arrobio ’83 Monte Baier William Bauman ’79 John V.S. Berger ’88 Robert R. Bowne II David Chao Douglas L. Frey Jonathan Headley Marisu Jimenez Mark H. Kim Laura Moyles-LaBarge J. Fred Mueller, Jr. Thomas P. O’Brien Candy Renick Daisy Rivas Daniel Rothenberg ’96 Joyce Wang Sakonju ’87 Janie Schulman Christopher Waldheim ’81 Ex-Officio John Finch, Head of School

CAMPAIGN STEERING COMMITTEE Chairman Candy Renick Members Sushma Adarkar Lauren ’85 and Michael Albrecht Robert R. Bowne II David Chao Geoffrey Clark R. Christian Evensen Dwight Holcomb Tom Rose ’92 Daniel Rothenberg ’96 Matthew G. Wright ’74 CHS ’78 Fred Yue Ex-Officio John Finch, Head of School Laura Dicovitsky, Director of Development Martin Voss, Director of Communications

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From the moment Tom Chandler asked,

“What can you do to help this school grow?�

Chandler families and friends have come together to create a supportive community that has thrived on helping the school fulfill its mission.

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From the moment Tom Chandler asked,

“What can you do to help this school grow?�

Chandler families and friends have come together to create a supportive community that has thrived on helping the school fulfill its mission.

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Contact Director of Development Laura Dicovitsky at (626) 795-9990 or ldicovitsky@chandlerschool.org to find out how you can help.