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The Looking Glass Building Communities Campaign Newsletter Activities Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

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Parents, past parents, grandparents and friends all joined together for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Activities Center which was held during the Parents’ Association picnic on September 15. Participating in the ceremony were, Hu Poston – O’Neal Board Chair, Senator Harris Blake, Linda Parsons representing the Moore County Chamber of Commerce, Alan Barr – O’Neal’s Headmaster, Southern Pines Mayor Mike Haney and Cary McSwain – County Manager. Tours of the Activities Center were proudly given by members of O’Neal’s administrative team following the ceremony.

Complete the Vision Phase II

Building Communities Capital Campaign

Purpose:

Raise needed funds for the new Activities Center construction.

Goal:

$3,000,000

Funds Raised to Date:

$230,000

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On to the Next Phase!

We have completed the first phase of the Complete the Vision Capital Campaign!! In this newsletter we wish to sincerely thank all donors to date for their generosity and support. We are officially in Phase II of the campaign this year – Building Communities. This phase seeks to raise needed funds for the construction of the new Activities Center.

This Activities Center will most certainly build upon the existing O’Neal community while also reaching out to our local area friends and neighbors.

The new gymnasium includes a regulation size basketball court with seating for 700 people. The addition of two practice courts allows for earlier practice times for our teams and will provide for intramural activities. Due to this beautiful new facility, O’Neal was chosen to host the State Volleyball Tournament this year.

With seating for 250 people, the theater provides an intimate venue for student-driven performances as well as opportunities for the greater community. New this year, the theater is home for the newly developed Kaleidoscope Family Series of performances hosted by the Arts Council of Moore County. Two remaining performances are scheduled in February and March of 2010. $1,000,000 and above Donors

$10,000 and above Donors

Bradshaw Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brian L. McMurray

Colgate-Palmolive Company Dr. and Mrs. David Cowherd Mr. and Mrs. Mac Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Gutschmit Mr. and Mrs. William E. Horner III Mr. and Mrs. John J. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Toby Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Steven M. Karan Mr. and Dr. Koley D. Keel Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Later Mr. and Mrs. Michael Martone Drs. Bobby and Carolyn Maynor Dr. Robert D. McCall and Dr. Pamela J. Guest Dr. and Mrs. Gerard O’Donnell Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Parrish Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McGowan Drs. John and Michelle Roberson Mr. and Mrs. Guy Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Ronalter, Jr. Wachovia

$250,000 and above Donor Mr. and Mrs. Winfred N. Hasty, Jr.

$100,000 and above Donors Mrs. Donald F. Cutler Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Hendry C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation O’Neal School Parents’ Association Mr. and Mrs. F. Huling Poston III

$75,000 and above Donors Dr. F. Farrell Collins, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trexler

$50,000 and above Donors Mrs. Brenda Gutschmit O’Neal School Booster Club Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Taws Jr.

$25,000 and above Donors Drs. Allen and Emily Averbook Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baillie Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Baldelli Bank of America Dr. and Mrs. Peter L. Duffy Drs. Neil and Soledad Griffin Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hefner III Mrs. Jean Rae H. Hinton Mrs. Lawrence Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Stephen C. King Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Robinette Wachovia Matching Gifts Program Wachovia Securities Mr. and Mrs. Anthony K. Woodell

$5,000 and above Donors Mr. R. Marks Arnold Automatic Data Processing Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bowness Maureen H. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Carty Davis Mr. Craig Fuller and Dr. Victoria J. DeVito Dr. and Mrs. John Krahnert Drs. ‘Jide and Gani Lawal O’Connor Company of NC, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Pendley

Other Donors Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Ansley Dr. and Mrs. Clinton K. Atkinson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey G. Barnes Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bartiss

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Mr. and Mrs. Larry Best Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Blackwood Mrs. Mary Breitenbeck Drs. Robert and Monika Brown Mr. and Mrs. Baxter L. Clement Mr. and Mrs. George B. Davis Mrs. Lynn S. DeJaco Dr. and Mrs. Dell A. Dembosky Mr. and Mrs. Robert Derderian Mr. and Mrs. Robert Desjarlais Dr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Doolittle Mr. and Mrs. Kent Droppers Mr. and Mrs. W. Dwight Edmonds Ms. Holly W. Floyd Dr. and Mrs. David M. Furie Mr. Glen Gibbons Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Gough Mr. and Mrs. John E. Harding, Jr. Mrs. Thomas T. Hayes Mrs. Henry Haywood Heckethorn Architecture, PLLC Mr. and Mrs. Jake Howe Mr. Tracy Ingold Mr. J. R. Joyner Dr. and Mrs. Yan Ke Ms. Katherine T. Lange Drs. ‘Jide and Gani Lawal Mr. and Mrs. William Lilley III Mr. and Mrs. William McClelland, Jr. Mr. Richard McHenry and Ms. Teresa R. Young Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Melton Mr. and Mrs. William J. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Milligan Mr. Stuart L. Mills and Mrs. Helen Probst Mills Mr. Dargan Moore and Ms. Janet Trent Ms. Jane Thompson Myers Mr. and Mrs. Prem Nath Mr. and Mrs. John Neiswender Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Noelke Mr. and Mrs. Kel Normann O’Neal Upper School Seniors – Classes of 2004 -2008

Donors

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Palmer Mr. Edward T. Phillips Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pottle Mr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Pracht Mr. and Mrs. Lowell W. Rickard Mrs. Marjorie Roach Mrs. Gay R. Russell Dr. and Mrs. Charles D. Samaras Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Saye Ms. Alison M. Schaefer Ms. Andrea Schaefer Mrs. Cornelia B. Schirmer Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Schirmer Mrs. Suzanne Schloesser Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schoemmell Dr. Barbara L. Sherman Mr. and Mrs. F. Alexander Smith Dr. and Mrs. Harbans Sodhi Mr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Taylor Dr. and Mrs. David C. Thornton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tompkins Ms. Kathleen M. Waddell Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Walker Shannon S. Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Woollens Mr. and Mrs. David Woronoff Wyeth Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Xanders Mr. and Mrs. Leon T. Zhang

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The Meyer Family-an early O’Neal supporter The C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation has given the “anchor gift” for the second phase of the Complete the Vision capital campaign - now called Building Communities.

Starting with the donation of land on which the O’Neal campus now rests, the Meyer family has been a longtime supporter of O’Neal and its efforts. O’Neal had a chance to talk with Terry Brown, a board member of the C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation to learn more about his family.

C. Louis Meyer was the founder of CECO Corporation, a concrete engineering company. Originally in Omaha, the company was moved to Chicago after World War II. Chicago is where C. Louis Meyer’s grandsons, Terry and Louis Brown, were raised.

Mr. Meyer was an avid equestrian who loved to fox hunt.

His wife preferred to golf; like so many others, the Sandhills of North Carolina was very attractive to them as a vacation destination. In 1942, the Meyers purchased a 500 acre farm with a home; the original part of which was built in 1895.

Through the years, Mr. Meyer continued to purchase acreage that bordered the 500 acre farm and, at one time, owned 1500 acres. The farm became “the family compound” where children and grandchildren would all come to spend summers and other special occasions with the Meyers.

In 1963, the Meyer family donated the land that is now property of Sandhills Community College. In 1970, one of the Meyer daughters, Mary Elaine Meyer O’Neal, donated 40 acres to the Sandhills Independent School Corporation, with the request to have the school named after her husband, Wallace O’Neal, who had passed away the year before.

In 1990, the three grandchildren - brothers Terry and Louis Brown and cousin, Heidi Hall-Jones - inherited the remaining 1265 acres of the Louis Meyer Farm. They had a decision to make -sell or develop the property. All of them enjoyed the game of golf and they thought that there was opportunity for another private course in town. In 1994 the first trees were cut to begin the housing and (2) 18-hole course development now called Forest Creek.

So, how did the C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation come about? A public company, the Meyer CECO Foundation was created as a way to funnel requests for contributions

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from CECO Corporation. In 1986, CECO became private in a leveraged buyout, whereby the foundation was renamed the Meyer Family Foundation. 1n 1999, the Meyer Family Foundation was divided between the three grandchildren.

Brothers, Terry and Louis named their foundation the C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation.

Terry Brown has lived in the Sandhills for the past 11 years managing and developing Forest Creek. He has three children, Angeline Leonard (with grandson, James) in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina; Whitney Healey in Chicago and a son, Foster Brown who lives here. Terry is married to Susan Clift Brown.

Terry is currently on The O’Neal Board of Trustees and is chair of the buildings and grounds committee. Terry commented on what O’Neal has done for the community. He states, “It’s a joy to be involved in O’Neal’s growth. It ranks with schools in much higher developed areas and I feel privileged to be a part of it. The success of O’Neal is a contributor to our family heritage.”

Board of Trustees Vice President and Treasurer Stan Bradshaw, who has known Terry Brown for a long time, concludes by saying, “One of the aspects of O’Neal I appreciate most is that it is indeed a story about families, community and the pursuit of excellence. It is gratifying for me to see and know the families that were most instrumental in founding the school nearly 40 years ago and to see so many of those families still involved today. There has been no family more involved and more key to O’Neal’s success than the Meyer/Brown family. All of us at O’Neal owe Terry and his family immense gratitude for all they have done.”

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Selected Named Giving Opportunities New Activities Center $1,000,000 New Gymnasium $500,000 New Theater $500,000 Basketball Court $250,000 Atrium of Activity Center $250,000 Fitness Center(taken) $150,000 Concession Area $125,000 Locker Rooms $50,000 / each Classrooms (4)(some taken) $25,000 / each Coaches Offices (3) $25,000 / each Theater Lobby (taken) $25,000 Trophy & Display Cases (3) $15,000 / each

(some taken)

To Learn More on Giving to The O’Neal School, please contact:

Brenda Jackson

Assistant Headmaster & Director of Institutional Advancement (910) 692-6920 ext. 130 bjackson@onealschool.org

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www.ONealSchool.org

The O’Neal School P.O. Box 290 Southern Pines, NC 28388-0290