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Show High school art presentation will set centennial in motion Park City will kick off its centennial year celebration Saturday, Jan. 7 with the unveiling of a bronze statue at Park City High School, according to Mayor Jack Green, the director of the Centennial Commission's Executive Committee. While the Executive Committee Com-mittee is still in the process of organizing projects and sponsors, and ironing out the year's schedule of events, Green said that the group has decided to begin the town's 100th birthday in conjunction with the Park City High School ceremony. The 28-inch-high bronze sculpture of a miner and ore car that will be the focus of the celebration is an original design by Andrea Morguloff, one of the school's art teachers. According to Park City High School principal Jack Dozier, the sculpture will grace the foyer of the high school. The ceremony also will involve 12 other works of art that will hang permanently in the halls of the school, he said. Dozier said the high school has been working for many years towards a project that would incorporate the school's namesakes. The Miners, with Park City's history. This specific plan has been under way for well over a year, he said. The foundry work on Morguloff's original clay work was done by Gary Prazen, a well-known Utah sculptor, Dozier said. A plaque will accompany the bronze, commemorating Park City's past, he said. Park City High's new art collection is valued at approximately ap-proximately $10,000, Dozier noted. Funding for the bronze and the other 12 works,' all created by Utah -artists, was completely donated, he said. The graduating grad-uating class of 1984 contributed con-tributed a "considerable sum" which initiated the project. Numerous patrons made substantial donations, he added. "All of us will have reason to be proud of the presentation," Dozier said. The unveiling will begin at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend the presentation beginning at 8 p.m. With the opening of the centennial celebration slated, Green said that the organization of the remainder remain-der of the centennial calendar calen-dar will begin to take shape. The Executive Committee met this week in an effort to select project sponsors and committee members J to oversee events that will be ongoing throughout the centennial cen-tennial year. Green said that a further step will take place during the week of Jan. 9 whenHhe 100-member Centennial Committee will meet to make specific project "assignments. "as-signments. ' A number of sponsors have already lined up.' for events that have been proposed pro-posed for Founder's "Week, which will be the focal point of the year-long gala, Green said. Some of the prospective events during Founder's Week include a snow sculpture sculp-ture contest scheduled to open the week on Mac. 3, Green said. Other events could include balloon races along with various types of ski racing, a parade and perhaps even a giant birthday birth-day cake. The refurbished Old City . Hall which will soon become Park City's museum will be dedicated on Incorporation Day, March 8, Green said. A Centennial Ball is scheduled sche-duled to round out the week. |