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'''THIS WIKI WILL SOON BE MOVED OVER TO AN UPDATED WIKI PLATFORM. The Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society has been disbanded. Make way for "The Carrick Her-Story Society" More updates to follow soon.'''

Rest in Peace John Rudiak. We appreciate all you have done for the Carrick community.

== Questions or inquiries can be directed to carrickhistory@gmail.com ==

*If you are new to the Carrick Overbrook History web site and wish to be a contributor, as a courtesy please contact carrickhistory@gmail.com. We would like to meet with you to discuss our web site and instruct you on how to contribute photos, files or information.

== [[Current events]] ==

*[http://wiki.carrick-overbrook.org/Current_events Current Community Events]

== Our Name: ==

*[[Carrick-on-Suir]] – Carrick Post Office was named after this Irish City of Dr. John O’Brien who had the honor of naming the first post office in this area of Baldwin Township in 1853. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_on_Suir Wikipedia Carrick-on-Suir]

*[[Carrick Swan and Rock]] – official emblem of Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. Rock because in Gaelic Carrick means Rock and swans because it is located on the River Suir which has many swans.

== Articles, Booklets, Photos and Notes about Carrick ==

*[[Articles about Carrick]] - Compilation of newspaper articles and research papers about Carrick Borough and the Carrick Neighborhood.

*[[Brownsville Road]] - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1900 story

*[[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] - in an effort to improve the image of Brownsville Road artists are painting panels attach to storefront windows.
**[[Art project spruces up Carrick]] - "A Pittsburgh Leader article from 1904 reporting on the status of Carrick stated that "if nine out of 10 Pittsburgers were asked where Carrick is they could not answer. If asked to describe the place they would be equally at sea."

*[[Carrick's 2011 Dump Clean Up]] - Spring of 2011 Dump Cleanup, April 9, 2010

*[[Carrick Park 1914 Letter]]

*[[Carrick Park 1917 Description]]

*[[Carrick's Borough's 10th Anniversary]] - 1914 Booklet

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] - 1906 dedication Booklet.

*[[Carrick Community Council Response to 2012 Crime Statistics]]

*[[Carrick High School Reunion Dedication to WWII Veterans]]

*[[Carrick's History in Street Signs]] - This is a youtube presentation of our history by interpreting street names.

*[[Carrick Profile 1970]] - CARRICK – 1970 A COMMUNITY PROFILE Prepared by The Department of City Planning, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1974

*[[Carrick Walk About]] - Article that appeared in the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post Gazette] by Diana Nelson Jones on March 28, 2009.

* Concord Elementary School Articles
**[[Concord Elementary Coats for Kids]] - Article about Concord Elementary Parents and kids, February, 2010.
** [[History Lesson at Concord School]] - Article about a history lesson regarding [[John M. Phillips]] by John Rudiak and Julia Tomasic.
** [[Concord students complete first ‘Reach for the Stars’ challenge]] - Article about Concord Elementary School Achievements

*[[Coal mines]] - A collection of stories and facts regarding our underground.

*[[Depression Life]] - Article from the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] about life in the depression by Carrick native [[Emily Pritchard Cary]].

*[[Early Carrick History]] - A letter to Harriet Duff Phillips from a Mr. Bennett who talks about very eary Carrick History. There is no date on this letter.

*[[Fire at the Boron Gas Station]] - A short story told by Nick Markowitz

*[[Ghost Stories]] - Stories of the ghosts and spirits of Carrick

*[[Bandi, Harry]] - article about Harry Bandi's flower

*[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[The Hornaday Road Report]] - by Joe Krynock. Joe explains how the Hornaday Road project started and how the History Society was started.

*[[Hornaday Road Welcome]] - Article about Hornaday Road residents welcoming veteran Army 1st Lt. Bob Muessner back from his tour in Iraq.

*[[History of Carrick Borough]] - This speech, documented on March 22,1927, probably the best speeches delivered in [[Carrick High School]], was made on February 3, 1927, by Beatrice Evans who graduated on that night.

*[[Historical Marker Applications]] and [[John M. Phillips Marker Dedication]] - The Society has applied for two [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2539&&SortOrder=200&level=2&parentCommID=1586&menuLevel=Level_2&mode=2 Pennsylvania Historical Markers] for [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. These are the applications and the subsequent dedication.

*[[Horse and Wagon Registrations]] - Photos and Articles of Horse and Cart Registrations

*[[Maytide Street]] - Photo of Maytide near Brownsville Road

*[[Neighborhood Authors]] - An ongoing compilation of neighborhood writers who have seen their works in print.

*[[Open the Door to the Hilltop]] – John M. Phillips’ slogan to widen 18th Street and pave it.

*[[Photos of our Beautiful Neighborhood]] - Post your favorite photos of our neigborhood here.

*[[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]] - One of the most quoted newspaper articles about Carrick Borough written in 1904.

*[[Recollections]] - Stories and recollections from residents and former residents about life in the South Hills.

*[[Six-burgh Reasons Why I love Pittsburgh]] - Two residents of Carrick, Robert C. Meussner, Sr. and Brandon William Skalniak won the contest held in the summer of 2009.

*[[South Side Iron, Steel and Glass and the connection to Carrick and Overbrook]] - Research by Joe Krynock

*[[Snow Storm February 2010]] - Articles and Photos of the snow storm February, 2010.

*[[Street Names]] - This was a presentation to students at Pittsburgh Carmalt Elementary School in Brookline by [[John J. Rudiak]]

*[[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

*[[WWII Articles]] - A collection of articles which appeared in newspapers about the men and women serving in the war.

*[[Zebra, Robert, et. al. v School District of the City of Pittsburgh]] - Brief for Robert Zebra, et al., Appellees

== Buildings and Homes ==

*[[1425 Brownsville Road]] [[Wigman House]] - This is our Crown Jewel Victorian

*[[145 Madeline Street]] - Home of [[Emily Pritchard Cary]]

*[[1726 Brownsville Road]] - Home of [[John J. Flemming]]

*[[2449 Valera Street]] - Home of [[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']]

*[[2920 Brownsville Road]]-Home of Robert F. Phillips torn down for a food store building.

*[[2724 Churchview Avenue]] - See [[Thomas Sankey Mansion]]

*[[Carrick Building and Loan Association]] - No longer in existence - "ghost sign" discovered.

*[[Carrick Log Cabin]] - Located at Brownsville Road across the street from Overbrook Blvd

*[[Carrick Post Office]] - This photo may be the Carrick, Pennsylvania US Post Office.

*[[Pittsburgh Register of Historical Places - Carrick]] - Individual significant buildings, structures and sites in Carrick.
**[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[House Moving]] - Photos of the moving of Fallert's house moving operation at Brownsville Road and Laughlin Avenue.

*[[Impton]] - The home of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]

*[[Thomas Sankey Mansion]] - 2724 Churchview Avenue

== Businesses ==

*[[A & P Store]] – First in now the old Isaly’s, then moved to a small room near Brentwood Bank, maybe in 1933, where the Melrose Theater was built.

*Bud's Place [[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[Burns hardware]] - Located in the "new" Carrick Shopping Center it still had the old time "we have everything you need" hardware store feel.

*[[Boron Funeral Home]] - First started as [[Koontz Funeral Home]].

*[[Carrick Brazing and Welding]] - Charles Horne in 1945 opened Carrick Brazing and Welding at 221 Madeline Avenue. He moved to the current location of 401 Nobles Lane in 1946.

*[[Carrick Shopping Center]] - formerly the site of Semmelrock Funeral Home and family home which were demolished to build the center. Shopping center was built in the 1950.

*[[Caruso’s Music Store]] - One of Carrick's oldest businesses and possible site of a Carrick Post Office.

*[[Colteryahn's Dairy]] - The oldest dairy still operating the City of Pittsburgh is located right here in Carrick.
**[[Dairy District Planning Session]] - photos and tour of Colteryahn and the Dairy District planning sessions

*[[Cost Cutters]] - Established 1985 in the Carrick Shopping Center

*[[Dudt’s Bakery]] – located at Belplain Avenue and 2552 Brownsville Road. Highly rated throughout the South Hills. Cameron Dudt owner.

*[[Emmerich’s Confectionery]] - 1808 Brownsville Road

*[[Esso Station]] – Located at Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue.

*[[Giant Eagle]] - Formerly the home of [[Robert Phillips]] the Giant Eagle was built in the 1960s and then abandoned due to a move to Brentwood Towne Centre. Proposed home to Senior Housing in 2013.

*[[Haszalbart's Hardware]] - Located at Craillo Avenue and Brownsville Road

*[[Heinauer Pharmacy]] - owned by Harry Bande

*[[Kraus' Carrick Isaly's]] - Business owned by Councilman Bruce Kraus' Family.

*[[Landefeld Dry Goods Store]] – Across from Melrose was Brentwood Bank.

*[[Lennix Gulf Station]] – was also a trolley barn later on and the end of the line until line extended to the current Bank site and bus turn around.

*[[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - Currently Bud's Place 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[McGinnnis Sisters]] - McGinniss Sisters first store was a Mobil Gas Station at the corner of Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Movie theater on [[Brownsville Road]] across the street from Sankey Avenue. Currently an office building.

*[[Mr. Erny’s]] – Home and Funeral Home built in 1928 across from Raleigh Square.

*[[Readshaw Funeral Home]] - Located in the 1500 block of Brownsville Road

*[[Shell Gas Station]] – now [[Lennox Gulf]]

*[[Shemmelrock Funeral Home]] – Funeral Home in Carrick at current site of Carrick Shopping Center.

*[[Schran's Market]] - Located directly across from [[Hornaday Road]] and Brownville Road.

*[[Superior Fur Company]] - Located at 434 Brownsville Road.

*[[Stanley’s Parlors]] – Bowling lanes and apartments.

*[[Storch’s Electric Marble and Granite Works]] – at what is now the Dairy Queen Property.

*[[Urben's Drug Store]] - At the corner of Church (currently Churchview) Avenue and Brownsville Road in 1925.

*[[Valdiserri’s Fruit Market]] – across from Zimmerman Cemetery closes 1932.

*[[Yago’s Hardware]] – Located next to current [[Carrick Hardware]].

== Cemeteries ==

'''We recently were informed about a web site titled [http://www.findagrave.com/ FindAGrave.com]. This web site has information about our cemeteries and by joining their site you can add photos and information too.'''

*[[Beth Abraham Cemetery]] - Jewish cemetery which borders Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Birmingham Cemetery]] - (a/k/a Zimmerman Cemetery, a/k/a Lorch's Cemetery, a/k/a German United Protestant Evangelical Cemetery), 2511 Brownsville Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery]] – Located at 1907 Brownsville Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15210-4201. Among other famous Carrick residents it was also the burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and namesake of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[St. Adalbert]] - Predominently Polish Catholic Cemetery, the parent church is located in the South Side of Pittsburgh on South 15th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203

*[[St. George]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[St. Joseph]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[South Side Cemetery]] - 1404 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. This is a non demoninational cemetery located in the heart of Carrick. Many of the area's most influential individuals have made this their final resting place. Reference is made to this cemetery in this article [[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]].

*[[St. Wendelin Cemetery]] - Located surrounding the [[St. Wendelin Church]] on the border with Baldwin Borough at St Wendelin's Catholic Church, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227-2199

== Facts ==

*[[British Columbia Connection]] – Mountain named after John M. Phillips

*Carrick’s Acreage – size in acres of Carrick in 1927 -1,015

*[[Carrick First]] – First Borough to lay all streets on a six inch base. As a result there is still little need for repairs on these streets.First sanitary sewer system in Western Pennsylvania

*[[June 21, 1904]] – Carrick becomes a borough.

== Holidays ==

*[[Bird Day]]-created in the late 1800s to teach children about nature and to promote bird in the neighborhoods.

*[[Churchview Avenue Picnic photo]] - Hess Farm 1916

*[[Carrick Cornfest]] - an annual event in Carrick started in the late 1970s
**[[2010 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2010 Cornfest
**[[2011 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2011 Cornfest
**[[2012 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2012 Cornfest
**[[2013 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2013 Cornfest

*[[Picnic Day Photo]] - Photo of a neighborhood picnic in 1913 Lacona Street and Laughlin Street Ext. The area was called Heideis Hollow.

*[[Tree Day]] - Arbor Day in Carrick see [[John M. Phillips]]

== [[Homes]] ==

*[[Harry Englert House]] - Hornaday Road

*[[Wigman House]] - 1725 Brownsville Road. Our 'Crown Jewel' of Carrick and our first historic house designated by the City of Pittsburgh.

*[[Winter Homes]] - 2314 and 2316 Brownsville Road. Duplex sister homes built by Barbara and Alois Winter. This is our first designated Historic District.

== Houses of Worship ==

*[[Advent Historic Church Walk]] - December 11, 2011, First Annual Historic Church Walk

*[[Birmingham United Church of Christ]] - 25 Carrick Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church]] – 1907 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831. First church building built in 1832. Burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and nameske of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses]] - 2401 Raven St, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 1628 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Passionist Convent]] – Erected in 1910 and was one of the first of its kind in America.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[St. Pius X Byzantine Catholic Church]] - Byzantine Catholic, 2336 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, Built on the site of John M. and Harriet Duff Phillips home of [[Impton]].

*[[Saint Wendelins Catholic Church]] - Roman Catholic, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Spencer United Methodist Church]] -

*[[Stewart Avenue Evangelical Lutheran Church]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 2810 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Zion Christian Church]]- 98 Hornaday Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, formerly the Union Baptist Church

== Landmarks ==

*[[Agnew Glass Works]] – Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and current E. Agnew Avenue.

*[[Alpha Sign Company]] – first company to install billboards on Brownsville Road in Carrick. Signs called eyesores even at that time.

*[[Brownsville Plank Road]] – known by that name because of the 4’ plank road for clean riding and maintained by tolls.

*[[Brownsville Road]] – At one time was an Indian Trail was also known as Brownsville Pittsburgh Toll Road, Brownsville Plank Road, Southern Avenue and Brownsville Road. The road had at one time three toll booths, was a mud rutted road impassible in spring and fall, used by farmers to transport livestock to Pittsburgh and was a stagecoach route to Brownsville PA. John M. Phillips was called Boardwalk John because of his effort to plank Brownville Road and widened the road to its current width.

*[[Brownsville Road]] names – Southern Avenue, Brownsville Plank Road, Birmingham and Brownsville Macadamized Turnpike Road, Brownsville Avenue.

*[[Bucks Tavern]] – A toll booth, hotel and tavern for travelers using Brownsville Road to Brownville. Currently the Italian Club. Built in 1818, burned in 1853.

*[[Carrick Avenue Wooden Footbridge]] - Wooden footbridge spaning Ravine Street later and currently named Raven Street. Removed in 1953.

*[[Carrick Bank]] – first bank to be organized in the community. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] becomes the first President. Biddle Boys said to have robbed Carrick Bank in their bank robbing spree.

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] – located next to the current [[Caruso’s Music Store]]

*[[Carrick Hotel]] - Also known as the Hotel Carrick and is currently the location of Acapulco Joe's Bar and apartment.

*[[Carrick Library]] – formerly operated by the Fire Company was established in 1930. [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Library Link]

*[[Carrick Literary Society]] - Definitely not to be confused with the current Carrick Literary Club at 210 Copperfield Avenue.

*[[Carrick Mural]] - Currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]]. Once the site of [[Agnew Glass Works]] and [[Werner Moving and Storage Company]].

*[[Carrick Post Office]] – First government post office in Baldwin Township established in December 23, 1853. Possibly located in later years next to the Carrick Borough offices in what is now [[Caruso’s Music Store]].

*[[Carrick Telephone office]] – Located at Overbrook Boulevard and Brownsville Road. 1904 had 50 subscribers, by 1910 had 300.

*[[Concord Church]] – was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831.

*[[Craillo]] area of Carrick near Concord Church.

*[[Engleartville]] – First name of the Carrick area named after Engleart Glass Company.

*[[Hess Farm]] - Located on Churchview Avenue - photo only

*[[Hornaday Road]] - named after [[William T. Hornaday]] by [[John M. Phillips]]William Hornaday was an environmentalist and naturalist and friend who accompanied John M. Phillips on many excursions to classify animals. Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Impton]] - Mansion's name of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Johnnies Ice Cream Bar]] - 154 Parkfield Street at corner of Spokane Avenue -served thousands of student from Carrick High School.

*[[Keeling Coal Company]] owner of a coal mine on St. Patrick Street in Mt. Oliver. The mine was connected with the South Side by an incline, now the site of South Side Park, that ran from St. Patrick St. to 21st St. The mine continued under Mt. Oliver, crossed a ravine on a 200 yard trestle over Wagner Street, and continued under Carrick near Bruner and Linnview Avenue. It then continued underground to Spiketown, where it emerged again. Coal from the Bausman mine was tranferred to a train pulled by a steam locomotive, and transported through the Keeling mine to the coal incline.

*[[L’Enfant]] [[L'Enfant - Mother's statue]]– Mother and child sculpture currently residing at Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street since 1966. Originally called L’Enfant was donated to the Mother’s House. Won second price in Paris, France. Sculpted by Roger Bloche.

*[[Maytide Street]] - Also check [[Street Names]]. Called Maine Street (also in Overbrook Borough) before Overbrook Borough became and Carrick Borough became part of the City of Pittsburgh

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Sankey Avenue the theater no longer exists but you can see some of the original building behind the new front.

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. This is the location of their first meeting house that was located at the corner of current Spokane and Parkfield Avenues.

*[[Nicholodean]] – Currently the St. Basil’s Credit Union and was the site of Carrick Library.

*[[Parkfield Street]]- Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[Phillips Park]] – named after [[John M. Phillips]] for the many donated trees and swimming pool. Also known as Dilly’s Grove, Southern Park and Carrick Park was originally a Trolley Traction Park with vaudeville acts, roller coasters, merry go rounds and other attractions. Dilly’s Grove was part of the Coffey Estate bought in 1904 for $29,000

*[[Phillips Properties]] - Scattered from Downtown Pittsburgh to the South Side (Birmingham) to Carrick this is a compilation of the Phillips properties by Robert F. Phillips.

*[[Phillips, Robert F.]] home - Home on Brownsville Road demolished for the now vacant Giant Eagle building. See [[Phillips Properties]]

*[[Raleigh Square]] – Once a farm and land taken in 1928 and prior to that year farm was here. The farm was not taken care and fire destroys the 2 story, frame, unpainted house of the farmer who had a wife and 8 children. Sold by the farmer who had 8 children but could no longer make ends meet. Land comprised of an area along Brownsville Road from the Phillips’ residence to Willies (across from Clifton Street to Maytide Street and on back to Phillps’ residence. The land bordered by Biscayne Avenue to around Wysox Avenue to Maytide Street to [[Valera Street]].

*[[Spiketown]] – Comes into existance in 1868. The area around current Volunteer’s Fields. Neighborhood of homes built by miners of the Keeling Coal Company. Said to be called Spiketown because the miners used mine spikes to build their homes. Also said to be named after the Speiker Family whose large family also lived in the area.

*[[Stewart Avenue]] – named after the great Stewart Farm. Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[The Boulevard]] - One of the very first streets in Carrick. Eligible for Historic District.

*[[Toll Stations]] – First toll station was located at Knox Avenue, another at the current Italian Club and a third at current Churchview Road

*[[Traction Park]] – Current Phillips Park becomes a “traction park.” Previously known as Dilly’s Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

*[[Utility covers]] - From Carrick Borough's past this is an assortment of utility covers. Can you find where they all are?

*[[William Wightman’s Land]] – Bought from the Indians for one iron ax by William Wightman. Area from present Parkfield Street to Maytide Street along Brownsville Road then west along Saw Mill Run. Present Verizon telephone building on this land.

*Wilson's Farm - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Valera Street]] - A portion of Valera Street is in an plan called Raleigh Square

== Library ==

*[[Carnegie Library - Carrick]] - 1811 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210 [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Carnegie Library Link]

== Maps ==

*[[Coal Mine Maps]] - A collection of underground coal mine maps under Carrick, Overbrook and the area. Courtesy of Carol Anthony.

*[[Maps]] - A collection of maps, plans and diagrams of Carrick
**[[Street Names]] - Changed street names when Carrick Borough became the 29th Ward of Pittsburgh in 1927
*[[Wilson Warranty Map]] of [[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick
* Additional maps on [http://images.library.pitt.edu/maps/searchpage.html Historic Pittsburgh CLICK HERE]

== War Memorials ==

*[[Missing WWII Memorial]] - photo of Mrs. Mary Quel standing next to the missing WWII war memorial.

*[[St. Basil Church]] - Positioned in front of St. Basil Church

*[[Partial List of War Memorials]]

== Near to Carrick ==
This section is for those historic places near to our neighborhood but not quite Carrick.

*[[18th Street]] - Late in the 19th century many people petitioned the city of Pittsburgh to build a decent road to the Hilltop, as the borough on the mountaintop were refered to then. Here is the location of a few photos of that road.

*[[Becks Run Flood]] - See [[Page's]]

*[[Page's]] - located at the intersection of Beck's Run Road and E. Carson Street Page's Gas Station and Dairy Store has been a fixture on the South Side for over a century. This intersection is on one of the gateway roads to Carrick.

*[[ Ulman-Horne VFW 456]] - Located at Penn Avenue and Hays Avenue in Mt. Oliver

== Organizations ==

*[[Carrick Borough]] - Formed in 1904 and annexed into the City of Pittsburgh in 1927.

*[[Carrick High School Alumni]]- [[Carrick High School]] alumni can visit the web site on this page to get together with former classmates.

*[[Carrick Community Council]] - Formed early in our history the community council is still valuable forum for residents to learn about the events in the neighborhood and find answers to problems and issues. Form more information [[http://www.carrickpa.com/ click here]]

*[[Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society]] - Formed officially in 2008 to document the history and current events of Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Carrick Council of Republican Women]] - photo with article

*[[GBU - German Beneficial Union]] - The GBU, or German Beneficial Union, originally began in Carrick with a great hall and building located at 2500 Brownsville Road. The building is currently an apartment building with 32 units.

*[[Italian Sons and Daughters of America]] - We all know it as their building as the Italian Club, former site of [[Bucks Tavern]].

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]].

*[[Republican Women of Carrick]] - photo with names

*[[Southern Country Club]] - a social club that once existed on Claus Avenue

*[[Totally Against Graffiti]] - an organization started by Melissa Rosenfeld to stamp out Carrick's graffiti.

*[[Tree Tenders]] - Carrick's Tree Tenders are a group of certified tree tenders who meet once per month to trim, mulch and weed our trees.

== People ==

*[[5th Contingent Leaving Carrick to Petersburg, VA April 3, 1918]] - Photo infront of the [[Concord Presbyterian Church]].

*[[Agnew, John]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Agnew, Mary]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Askin, Ralph]] - A physician who practiced in Carrick at 2117 Brownsville Road.

*Bauman, Wm. [[Wm. Bauman]] – First Police Chief

*Bausman, Nicholas [[Nicholas Bausman]] - early settler and landowner in 1818 sells the Carrick area to Noble Calhoun for $5,000.

*[[Benedik Family]] - 6 members of one family in the service.

*[[Bennet, William]] - recollections of Wm. Bennet, age 90

*[[Boardwalk John]] – nickname for [[John M. Phillips]] because he wanted to build a 4’ wide boardwalk from Mt. Oliver to the 3rd. toll gate. He had a vision of a future 60’ Right of Way street and sidewalk and had citizens volunteer to build the street. As a demonstration of what a 60’ Right of Way paved road and sidewalk would look like, [[John M. Phillips]] purchases the property across from his 2236 Brownsville Road home so he could lay sidewalks and widen and pave Brownsville Road.

*[[Beaumont, Jimmy]] - Jimmy Beaumont is the lead singer of Jimmy Beaumont and the [[Skyliners]].

*[[Bernarding Archbishop George E.]] - Missionary to New Guinea beginning in the late 1930s. He also went to St. Basils.

*[[Ball, Gail]] - rolling pin thrower winner article

*[[Brown, Sherry Miller]] - Director of the College of General Studies’ McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success

*Cary, Emily Prichard [[Emily Prichard Cary]] - She was a native of Pittsburgh and now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Emily writes about her life in Carrick.

*Calhoun, Noble [[Noble Calhoun]] - 1842 sells Carrick to William Noble for $17,000

*[[Carrick Centurions]] - A collection of Carrick residents who have reached the century mark birthdays.

*[[Caruso, Henry]] - Carrick business owner of Caruso's Music and music teacher.

*[[Dr. Dapper, Harry R., MD]] - Suddenly murdered in 1928, murder never found.

*Dawida, Audrey [[Audrey Dawida]] - Wife of Michael Dawida and community volunteer. Audrey was active in the neighborhood's history.

*Dawida, Michael [[Michael Dawida]] – State Representative, State Senator, Allegheny County Commissioner

*[[DeLuca, Mark]] - Carrick native and Muay Thai fighter won the Thai Boxing Association-Sanctioning Authority (TBA-SA) Superlightweight World Championship on Saturday Nov. 8, 2008, in Des Moines, Iowa.

* Devlin,Peter A. [[Peter A Devlin]] – one of the area’s first settlers. Log cabin moved to Phillips Park but no one remembers it there. One photo in the old South Hills Record shows it on Walton off Churchview.

*Diehl, Adam [[Adam Diehl]] – First Borough Burgess lived 2338 Brownsville Road.

*[[Donahue, Zysk Linda]] - Carrick Community Council Treasurer and community organizer

*Donely, Wm. McClurg [[William McClurg Donely]] – First Borough Engineer.

*Eld, John [[John Eld]] - grandson of [[John J. Fleming]] once lived on [[Valera Street]]. John provided photos of his house.

*[[Englert, Milton S.]] - One of the original landowners and citizens of Baldwin Township, later Carrick Borough. Legend has it that the Carrick area was once called Englertville because of the glass works owned by the Englerts.

*[[Fisher, Dr. Edward]] - CHS class of 1960

*[[Finch, Walter ]] – First Street Commissioner

*[[Fink, Jean]] - Carrick Community Council President, Board Member and Pittsburgh Public School Board Member

*Fleming, John J. [[John J. Fleming]] – industrialist and inventor who lived in Carrick and worked as the chief engineer of Phillips Mining and Manufacturing Company.

*[[Fragasso Bob]] - Financial Advisor

*[[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']] - World War II winner of Distinguished Service Cross

*[[Goettler Paul]] - Carrick resident and WWII veteran

*[[Guthoerl Kilroy, Irma]] - long time organist at St. Basil Church

*Haupt, J. A. J. [[J. A. J. Haupt]] – Fifth Burgess

*[[Hazlett, Rev. John]] – Pastor [[Concord Presbyterian Church]] in 1872 starts academy for Higher Education at his home, Oak Grove, on Brownsville Road and corner of Stewart Avenue. Academy was the first school south of the Monongahela River to provide secondary education for older boys and girls.

*[[Herman, JoAnn]] - Jo Ann Herman / Fervent guardian of Carrick neighborhood June 18, 1934 - April 9, 2009

*[[Hagerling, Sidney A.]] - Army Distinguished Service Medal Winner

*[[Hodgson, Naomi]] - Retirement notice

*[[Hyman, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School alumni and legendary Jazz singer

*[[Jankowski, Ron and Barringer, William]] - baseball tryout photo

*[[Jones, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School Alumni Sports Walk of Fame Inductee

*[[Jumbo]] – Motorcycle cop in Carrick Borough in the 1920’s

*Lemon, John [[John Lemon]] – First Borough Solicitor

*[[Lewis, Joseph P.]] - First cashier at Carrick Bank which opened in 1913

*[[Lipinski, Walter]] - Veteran and author

*[[Lucarelli, Louis]] - Vietnam Vet returns article and photo

*[[Karas, Joseph M.]] - article by Joseph M. Karas

*[[Kaskey Ray]] - Sculptor

*[[Koontz, Bob]]

*[[Kloss, Shirley]] - Famous violinist

*[[Kraft, Richard]] - History of his life in Carrick

*Markowitz, Nick [[Nick Markowitz]] – early (1976) Carrick Historian who contributed many works, research and authored dozens of article about Carrick.

*[[McCue, Tim]] - Carrick resident and stock car driver article.

*[[Miners]] - A collection of coal miner photos not of Carrick but possibly a representation of how life was in the coal mines for our former residents.

*[[McClure, William]] - one of Carrick Borough's founding members

*[[Morgan, Al]] - Long time Carrick resident who claims Carrick grew up around him.

*[[Mutchler, Russell]] - Fireman retires article

*Noble, William [[William Noble]] - 1855 sells 100 acres for $45,000 and in 1865 sells 100 acres for $106,000. Probable namesake of Noble's Lane.

*Nusser, John [[John Nusser]] – Third Burgess

*O'Brien, Dr. John [[Dr. John O’Brien]] – named the first US Post Office in this area in 1853 after his home town of Carrick-on-Suir.

*[[Phillips, Anna Jane]] - Daughter of Harriet Duff Phillips and John M. Phillips. Married to Joseph Shuman.

*Phillips, John [[John Phillips]] – Owned a mansion that sat in the middle of current [[Hornaday Road]] and owned 12 acres of land that became known as Phillips Manor.

*Phillips, Harriet Duff [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] – Wife of John M. Phillips, daughter of Dr. Duff. 1913 founded Mothers Club. 1916 founded Brashear Settlement. 1934-1938 President of the PA. Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Pioneer of Women's Health Programs, 1956 Phillips Elementary School named after her father and her. South Side Hospital Board of Directors. Board member of Pittsburgh Board of Education.

*[[Phillips, James]] - one of John Phillips' sons. Photo of property holdings.

*Phillips, John M. [[John M. Phillips]] – nephew of [[John Phillips]], PA Game Commissioner, City of Pittsburgh Councilman, creator of Phillips Park, owned mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road named [[Impton]], conservationist, creator of state parks, instrumental in the creation of the Boy Scouts of America earning the title "Chief Silver Tip" by American Indians who taught and knew him. John M. Phillips was also a naturalist, environmentalist, Boy Scout Founder in Pennsylvania, owner of Phillips Mine and Manufacturing Company. In 1924 President Calvin Cooledge named him chair of a national conference on conservation.

*Phillips' Children [[John M. Phillips’ Children]] – 3 daughters Mrs. Anna Jane Phillips Shuman, Mrs. Mary Phillips Lutz, Mrs. Margaret Phillips Chalfont, 2 sons John M. Phillips, Jr. (Whitehall Borough Councilman), James M. Phillips. Also had 13 grandchildren.

*[[Pikelis, Louis]] - article about no mail for his house

*[[Quel Brothers]] - Five brothers who served together in World War II

*[[Rapp, Janet Vogel]] - Female vocalist of the group [[The Skyliners]].

*[[Readshaw, Harry]] - local businessman and PA State Representative

*Rosenfeld, Melissa [[Melissa Rosenfeld]] - Two articles in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describe Melissa Rosenfeld [[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] and [[Art project spruces up Carrick]].

*[[Rudiak, John J.]] - Carrick Community Council President, community organizer, PennDOT Traffic Systems Control Specialist

*[[Rudiak, Natalia A.]] - In 1997 named Carrick High School's Senior of the year. On May 19,2009 Natalia Rudiak becomes the first female City Councilperson to represent District 4 and the first Councilperson from Carrick.

*[[Russell, Robert]] – First Borough Clerk

*[[Sachko, Melody]] - Spelling Bee Champ

*Saits, John [[John Saits]] – First Borough Tax Collector

*Sankey Wm.; Phillips John M.; Benz, Phillip; Hartung, Richard; Dieterle Jacob; Eiler, Henry; Werner,John - [[First Council of Carrick Borough]]

*Sankey, William, Jr. [[William Sankey, Jr.]] – Fourth Burgess

*[[Sankey, Walter]] - Newspaper article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "To Charlotte, with love."

*Schenk, Henry [[Henry Schenk]] – Second Burgess

*[[Seemiller, Danny]] - Danny Seemiller is an American table tennis player. By 1972, he was the number one qualifier on the U.S. World Team. he has won five U.S. Men's Singles Championships (in 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983). He was once ranked #19 in the world.

*[[Scarletelli Family]] - Old photos of the Scarletelli family donated by Bernie Scarletelli

*[[Sexauer, Dr John F.]] - MD Carrick's popular General Practitioner, whose office was above Heinauer's Drug Store on Brownsville Road. Dr Sexauer was the CHS football team doctor in the fifties and sixties. The family resided on Overbrook Blvd, and had 3 children (Sue, Janet, and Jack/John Jr who graduated from CHS in 1960)

*[[Shuty, Betty]] - Local resident

*[[Smithdas, Robert]] - Article about Robert Smithdas

*[[Speicher, Joseph]] – Carrick Historian in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

*[[Sprenkle, Wm. H.]] – President Principal of Schools from 1909

*Stanford, J. S. [[J. S. Stanford]] – First Postmaster of the Carrick Post Office in December 23, 1853

*Stolzenbach, C. H. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] – First President of Carrick Bank

*[[Stolzenbach, A. H.]] - First Borough Treasurer,

*Tepe, Marie Brose [[Marie Brose Tepe]] - Also known as "French Mary"

*[[Trautmann, Albert R.]] - Vietnam veteran article

*Trott, Ellsworth C. [[Ellsworth C. Trott]] – Last Burgess of Carrick Borough 1927.

*[[Urban, Bill]] - Artist

*[[Urbaniak, John]] - Painter

*[[Vooletich Family]] - article describing orthodox dinner at the Vooletich home

*[[Warble Alexandra]] - Carrick High School 2008 Extra Effort Awardee

*[[Warble Family]] - The Warble family is an amazing asset to the Carrick Community

*[[Washburn, Dr Alan]] - distinguished engineer and professor, youngest child of educators Dr Merle and Lois Washburn, (John/Jack and Carolyn were siblings, all 3 were graduates of Carrick HS). The family resided on Almont Street.

*[[Wightman, William]] - One first settlers of Carrick, then St. Clair Township.

*[[Wigman Family]] - Photos and story about the Wigman Family who owned and built the historic [[Wigman House]].

*Wilson, James [[James Wilson]] – First Carrick Borough Post Master

*Wilson, John - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick [[Wilson Warranty Map]]

*[[Windstein, Robert]] - Wins award photo article

*[[Wine, Michelle]] - one of the first recipients of a liver transplant with donations from the community.

*[[Woshner, Michael]] - Carrick Community Volunteer

*[[Wright, Margaret Persosky]] - Young Carrick mother died on Easter Day 1930 after being beaten and molested on the shores of the Allegheny River. Murder never found.

== Schools ==

*[[Desegregation Thesis by William D. Rutherford]] - A desegregation thesis by William D. Rutherford regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools

*[[Carrick High School]]- The first graduating class was in 1926.
**[[Carrick High School 1939 Yearbook]] - Full copy of 1939 Carrick High School yearbook
**[[Carrick High School Twentieth Anniversary Edition 1926-1946]] - A special edition of the school's yearbooks. Especially interesting is the listing in photos and descriptions of those young men who died in the service.
** [[Carrick High School in the News]] - articles regarding Carrick High School.
** [[Carrick High School Sports]] - articles regarding Carrick High School Sports.
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1926-1976]] - newspaper photo and photo of reunion
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1985]] - booklet presented at the reunion
** [[Carrick Alumni]] - 2013 Honors Alumni

*[[Carrick High School Reunion the first 75 years]]
**[[Carrick High School 1920s]]
**[[Carrick High School Started at Quentin Roosevelt School in 1923]]
**[[Carrick High School Opened in 1924]]
**[[Carrick High School 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School 1926 Football Team]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of January 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of June 1926]]
**[[Carrick High School 1927]]
**[[Carrick High School 1928]]
**[[Carrick High School 1929]]
**[[Carrick High School 1930s]]
**[[Carrick High School Reunion Photo 1931-1981]]
**[[Carrick High School graduate sang with Glen Miller]]
**[[Carrick High School 1941]]
**[[Carrick High School Class of 41 Fight Song]]
**[[Carrick High School Last School Board]]
**[[Carrick High School Bill Lawrence '45 Spitfire Band]]
**[[Carrick High School Alma Mater Correction]]
**[[Carrick High School Jim Reiter]]
**[[Carrick High School 54 students died WWII list]]

*[[Concord Elementary School]] – current location is the fifth location. Originally built on the back of Concord Church as one room and became known as Concord. Second location at Brownsville Road and Agnew Avenue, Third location on Agnew Avenue and Dowling. Forth location on Carrick Avenue. Fifth and final location on Brownsville Road and Biscayne Avenue.

** [[Concord Chronicles]] - Concord Chronicles is a newsletter for parents and students of Concord Elementary School.

** [[Concord Elementary School News]] - Articles about events at Concord Elementary School.

*[[First school in Carrick]] – name unknown but reference is made to a school in a house at Brownsville Road and Wynoka Street.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[Roosevelt Elementary School]] - The original was located on [[The Boulevard]] and although rebuilt in the 1950s, it is still an elementary school. The original was named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Roosevelt Quentin Roosevelt] [[Quentin Roosevelt Elementary School]] after President Theodore Roosevelt's son who died in the First World War and was one of the original pilots who were buried in France during the war and remains there.

*[[Union High School]] - The Borough of Knoxville was the location of this high school. It was attended by the Borough of Carrick residents before Carrick High School was built.

== Sports ==

*[[1912 Baseball Team]] - Can you identify these people in this photo?

*[[Bowling]] - Can you identify the places and the people in these photos?

*[[Carrick Community Athletic Association]] - [http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=ccaabaseball Carrick Baseball Link]

*[[Carrick Crackerjacks]]

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Basketball]] - Basketball Team

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Football]] - Football Team

*[[Carrick Girls Softball Champions]]

*[[Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church Baseball Team 1923]] - winner of The Press Carrick Church League Championship of 1923

*[[Goose Goslings]]

*[[Pony League Champions]] - 1953 photo of Carrick's first Pony League Team and Champions

*[[Sports Teams]] - Amateur and Church affiliated teams in Carrick

== Streetcars ==

* [[Carrick Streetcar Ordinance]] - "If a streetcar picked up a fireman on the way to a fire, streetcar was not allowed to stop except to pick up another fireman."

* [[Horse Trolley]] - last run article

* [[Phillips Park Traction Park]] - Current Phillips Park becomes a "traction park." Previously known as Dilly's Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

* [[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

* [[Trolley 59 Carrick]] - Double ended trolley operated in the 1920's during rush hour and turned around on a short track spur at the corner of Brownsville Road and Crailo Street.

* [[Trolley Barns]] - Carrick Shopping Center where the current Foodland is located was a brick trolley barn, demolished in the 1950's and the end of the line at one time.

== Who are you ==

*[[Who are you]] - A collection of photos with no description and need an explanation.

*[[Polish Mill Worker Tag]] - Anyone know John Zaine, Polish mill worker in 1919?

*[[Unknown Tintype Photo]] - unknown location

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== Questions or inquiries can be directed to carrickhistory@gmail.com ==

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== [[Current events]] ==

*[http://wiki.carrick-overbrook.org/Current_events Current Community Events]

== Our Name: ==

*[[Carrick-on-Suir]] – Carrick Post Office was named after this Irish City of Dr. John O’Brien who had the honor of naming the first post office in this area of Baldwin Township in 1853. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_on_Suir Wikipedia Carrick-on-Suir]

*[[Carrick Swan and Rock]] – official emblem of Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. Rock because in Gaelic Carrick means Rock and swans because it is located on the River Suir which has many swans.

== Articles, Booklets, Photos and Notes about Carrick ==

*[[Articles about Carrick]] - Compilation of newspaper articles and research papers about Carrick Borough and the Carrick Neighborhood.

*[[Brownsville Road]] - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1900 story

*[[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] - in an effort to improve the image of Brownsville Road artists are painting panels attach to storefront windows.
**[[Art project spruces up Carrick]] - "A Pittsburgh Leader article from 1904 reporting on the status of Carrick stated that "if nine out of 10 Pittsburgers were asked where Carrick is they could not answer. If asked to describe the place they would be equally at sea."

*[[Carrick's 2011 Dump Clean Up]] - Spring of 2011 Dump Cleanup, April 9, 2010

*[[Carrick Park 1914 Letter]]

*[[Carrick Park 1917 Description]]

*[[Carrick's Borough's 10th Anniversary]] - 1914 Booklet

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] - 1906 dedication Booklet.

*[[Carrick Community Council Response to 2012 Crime Statistics]]

*[[Carrick High School Reunion Dedication to WWII Veterans]]

*[[Carrick's History in Street Signs]] - This is a youtube presentation of our history by interpreting street names.

*[[Carrick Profile 1970]] - CARRICK – 1970 A COMMUNITY PROFILE Prepared by The Department of City Planning, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1974

*[[Carrick Walk About]] - Article that appeared in the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post Gazette] by Diana Nelson Jones on March 28, 2009.

* Concord Elementary School Articles
**[[Concord Elementary Coats for Kids]] - Article about Concord Elementary Parents and kids, February, 2010.
** [[History Lesson at Concord School]] - Article about a history lesson regarding [[John M. Phillips]] by John Rudiak and Julia Tomasic.
** [[Concord students complete first ‘Reach for the Stars’ challenge]] - Article about Concord Elementary School Achievements

*[[Coal mines]] - A collection of stories and facts regarding our underground.

*[[Depression Life]] - Article from the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] about life in the depression by Carrick native [[Emily Pritchard Cary]].

*[[Early Carrick History]] - A letter to Harriet Duff Phillips from a Mr. Bennett who talks about very eary Carrick History. There is no date on this letter.

*[[Fire at the Boron Gas Station]] - A short story told by Nick Markowitz

*[[Ghost Stories]] - Stories of the ghosts and spirits of Carrick

*[[Bandi, Harry]] - article about Harry Bandi's flower

*[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[The Hornaday Road Report]] - by Joe Krynock. Joe explains how the Hornaday Road project started and how the History Society was started.

*[[Hornaday Road Welcome]] - Article about Hornaday Road residents welcoming veteran Army 1st Lt. Bob Muessner back from his tour in Iraq.

*[[History of Carrick Borough]] - This speech, documented on March 22,1927, probably the best speeches delivered in [[Carrick High School]], was made on February 3, 1927, by Beatrice Evans who graduated on that night.

*[[Historical Marker Applications]] and [[John M. Phillips Marker Dedication]] - The Society has applied for two [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2539&&SortOrder=200&level=2&parentCommID=1586&menuLevel=Level_2&mode=2 Pennsylvania Historical Markers] for [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. These are the applications and the subsequent dedication.

*[[Horse and Wagon Registrations]] - Photos and Articles of Horse and Cart Registrations

*[[Maytide Street]] - Photo of Maytide near Brownsville Road

*[[Neighborhood Authors]] - An ongoing compilation of neighborhood writers who have seen their works in print.

*[[Open the Door to the Hilltop]] – John M. Phillips’ slogan to widen 18th Street and pave it.

*[[Photos of our Beautiful Neighborhood]] - Post your favorite photos of our neigborhood here.

*[[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]] - One of the most quoted newspaper articles about Carrick Borough written in 1904.

*[[Recollections]] - Stories and recollections from residents and former residents about life in the South Hills.

*[[Six-burgh Reasons Why I love Pittsburgh]] - Two residents of Carrick, Robert C. Meussner, Sr. and Brandon William Skalniak won the contest held in the summer of 2009.

*[[South Side Iron, Steel and Glass and the connection to Carrick and Overbrook]] - Research by Joe Krynock

*[[Snow Storm February 2010]] - Articles and Photos of the snow storm February, 2010.

*[[Street Names]] - This was a presentation to students at Pittsburgh Carmalt Elementary School in Brookline by [[John J. Rudiak]]

*[[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

*[[WWII Articles]] - A collection of articles which appeared in newspapers about the men and women serving in the war.

*[[Zebra, Robert, et. al. v School District of the City of Pittsburgh]] - Brief for Robert Zebra, et al., Appellees

== Buildings and Homes ==

*[[1425 Brownsville Road]] [[Wigman House]] - This is our Crown Jewel Victorian

*[[145 Madeline Street]] - Home of [[Emily Pritchard Cary]]

*[[1726 Brownsville Road]] - Home of [[John J. Flemming]]

*[[2449 Valera Street]] - Home of [[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']]

*[[2920 Brownsville Road]]-Home of Robert F. Phillips torn down for a food store building.

*[[2724 Churchview Avenue]] - See [[Thomas Sankey Mansion]]

*[[Carrick Building and Loan Association]] - No longer in existence - "ghost sign" discovered.

*[[Carrick Log Cabin]] - Located at Brownsville Road across the street from Overbrook Blvd

*[[Carrick Post Office]] - This photo may be the Carrick, Pennsylvania US Post Office.

*[[Pittsburgh Register of Historical Places - Carrick]] - Individual significant buildings, structures and sites in Carrick.
**[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[House Moving]] - Photos of the moving of Fallert's house moving operation at Brownsville Road and Laughlin Avenue.

*[[Impton]] - The home of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]

*[[Thomas Sankey Mansion]] - 2724 Churchview Avenue

== Businesses ==

*[[A & P Store]] – First in now the old Isaly’s, then moved to a small room near Brentwood Bank, maybe in 1933, where the Melrose Theater was built.

*Bud's Place [[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[Burns hardware]] - Located in the "new" Carrick Shopping Center it still had the old time "we have everything you need" hardware store feel.

*[[Boron Funeral Home]] - First started as [[Koontz Funeral Home]].

*[[Carrick Brazing and Welding]] - Charles Horne in 1945 opened Carrick Brazing and Welding at 221 Madeline Avenue. He moved to the current location of 401 Nobles Lane in 1946.

*[[Carrick Shopping Center]] - formerly the site of Semmelrock Funeral Home and family home which were demolished to build the center. Shopping center was built in the 1950.

*[[Caruso’s Music Store]] - One of Carrick's oldest businesses and possible site of a Carrick Post Office.

*[[Colteryahn's Dairy]] - The oldest dairy still operating the City of Pittsburgh is located right here in Carrick.
**[[Dairy District Planning Session]] - photos and tour of Colteryahn and the Dairy District planning sessions

*[[Cost Cutters]] - Established 1985 in the Carrick Shopping Center

*[[Dudt’s Bakery]] – located at Belplain Avenue and 2552 Brownsville Road. Highly rated throughout the South Hills. Cameron Dudt owner.

*[[Emmerich’s Confectionery]] - 1808 Brownsville Road

*[[Esso Station]] – Located at Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue.

*[[Giant Eagle]] - Formerly the home of [[Robert Phillips]] the Giant Eagle was built in the 1960s and then abandoned due to a move to Brentwood Towne Centre. Proposed home to Senior Housing in 2013.

*[[Haszalbart's Hardware]] - Located at Craillo Avenue and Brownsville Road

*[[Heinauer Pharmacy]] - owned by Harry Bande

*[[Kraus' Carrick Isaly's]] - Business owned by Councilman Bruce Kraus' Family.

*[[Landefeld Dry Goods Store]] – Across from Melrose was Brentwood Bank.

*[[Lennix Gulf Station]] – was also a trolley barn later on and the end of the line until line extended to the current Bank site and bus turn around.

*[[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - Currently Bud's Place 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[McGinnnis Sisters]] - McGinniss Sisters first store was a Mobil Gas Station at the corner of Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Movie theater on [[Brownsville Road]] across the street from Sankey Avenue. Currently an office building.

*[[Mr. Erny’s]] – Home and Funeral Home built in 1928 across from Raleigh Square.

*[[Readshaw Funeral Home]] - Located in the 1500 block of Brownsville Road

*[[Shell Gas Station]] – now [[Lennox Gulf]]

*[[Shemmelrock Funeral Home]] – Funeral Home in Carrick at current site of Carrick Shopping Center.

*[[Schran's Market]] - Located directly across from [[Hornaday Road]] and Brownville Road.

*[[Superior Fur Company]] - Located at 434 Brownsville Road.

*[[Stanley’s Parlors]] – Bowling lanes and apartments.

*[[Storch’s Electric Marble and Granite Works]] – at what is now the Dairy Queen Property.

*[[Urben's Drug Store]] - At the corner of Church (currently Churchview) Avenue and Brownsville Road in 1925.

*[[Valdiserri’s Fruit Market]] – across from Zimmerman Cemetery closes 1932.

*[[Yago’s Hardware]] – Located next to current [[Carrick Hardware]].

== Cemeteries ==

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*[[Beth Abraham Cemetery]] - Jewish cemetery which borders Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Birmingham Cemetery]] - (a/k/a Zimmerman Cemetery, a/k/a Lorch's Cemetery, a/k/a German United Protestant Evangelical Cemetery), 2511 Brownsville Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery]] – Located at 1907 Brownsville Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15210-4201. Among other famous Carrick residents it was also the burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and namesake of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[St. Adalbert]] - Predominently Polish Catholic Cemetery, the parent church is located in the South Side of Pittsburgh on South 15th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203

*[[St. George]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[St. Joseph]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[South Side Cemetery]] - 1404 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. This is a non demoninational cemetery located in the heart of Carrick. Many of the area's most influential individuals have made this their final resting place. Reference is made to this cemetery in this article [[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]].

*[[St. Wendelin Cemetery]] - Located surrounding the [[St. Wendelin Church]] on the border with Baldwin Borough at St Wendelin's Catholic Church, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227-2199

== Facts ==

*[[British Columbia Connection]] – Mountain named after John M. Phillips

*Carrick’s Acreage – size in acres of Carrick in 1927 -1,015

*[[Carrick First]] – First Borough to lay all streets on a six inch base. As a result there is still little need for repairs on these streets.First sanitary sewer system in Western Pennsylvania

*[[June 21, 1904]] – Carrick becomes a borough.

== Holidays ==

*[[Bird Day]]-created in the late 1800s to teach children about nature and to promote bird in the neighborhoods.

*[[Churchview Avenue Picnic photo]] - Hess Farm 1916

*[[Carrick Cornfest]] - an annual event in Carrick started in the late 1970s
**[[2010 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2010 Cornfest
**[[2011 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2011 Cornfest
**[[2012 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2012 Cornfest
**[[2013 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2013 Cornfest

*[[Picnic Day Photo]] - Photo of a neighborhood picnic in 1913 Lacona Street and Laughlin Street Ext. The area was called Heideis Hollow.

*[[Tree Day]] - Arbor Day in Carrick see [[John M. Phillips]]

== [[Homes]] ==

*[[Harry Englert House]] - Hornaday Road

*[[Wigman House]] - 1725 Brownsville Road. Our 'Crown Jewel' of Carrick and our first historic house designated by the City of Pittsburgh.

*[[Winter Homes]] - 2314 and 2316 Brownsville Road. Duplex sister homes built by Barbara and Alois Winter. This is our first designated Historic District.

== Houses of Worship ==

*[[Advent Historic Church Walk]] - December 11, 2011, First Annual Historic Church Walk

*[[Birmingham United Church of Christ]] - 25 Carrick Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church]] – 1907 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831. First church building built in 1832. Burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and nameske of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses]] - 2401 Raven St, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 1628 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Passionist Convent]] – Erected in 1910 and was one of the first of its kind in America.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[St. Pius X Byzantine Catholic Church]] - Byzantine Catholic, 2336 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, Built on the site of John M. and Harriet Duff Phillips home of [[Impton]].

*[[Saint Wendelins Catholic Church]] - Roman Catholic, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Spencer United Methodist Church]] -

*[[Stewart Avenue Evangelical Lutheran Church]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 2810 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Zion Christian Church]]- 98 Hornaday Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, formerly the Union Baptist Church

== Landmarks ==

*[[Agnew Glass Works]] – Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and current E. Agnew Avenue.

*[[Alpha Sign Company]] – first company to install billboards on Brownsville Road in Carrick. Signs called eyesores even at that time.

*[[Brownsville Plank Road]] – known by that name because of the 4’ plank road for clean riding and maintained by tolls.

*[[Brownsville Road]] – At one time was an Indian Trail was also known as Brownsville Pittsburgh Toll Road, Brownsville Plank Road, Southern Avenue and Brownsville Road. The road had at one time three toll booths, was a mud rutted road impassible in spring and fall, used by farmers to transport livestock to Pittsburgh and was a stagecoach route to Brownsville PA. John M. Phillips was called Boardwalk John because of his effort to plank Brownville Road and widened the road to its current width.

*[[Brownsville Road]] names – Southern Avenue, Brownsville Plank Road, Birmingham and Brownsville Macadamized Turnpike Road, Brownsville Avenue.

*[[Bucks Tavern]] – A toll booth, hotel and tavern for travelers using Brownsville Road to Brownville. Currently the Italian Club. Built in 1818, burned in 1853.

*[[Carrick Avenue Wooden Footbridge]] - Wooden footbridge spaning Ravine Street later and currently named Raven Street. Removed in 1953.

*[[Carrick Bank]] – first bank to be organized in the community. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] becomes the first President. Biddle Boys said to have robbed Carrick Bank in their bank robbing spree.

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] – located next to the current [[Caruso’s Music Store]]

*[[Carrick Hotel]] - Also known as the Hotel Carrick and is currently the location of Acapulco Joe's Bar and apartment.

*[[Carrick Library]] – formerly operated by the Fire Company was established in 1930. [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Library Link]

*[[Carrick Literary Society]] - Definitely not to be confused with the current Carrick Literary Club at 210 Copperfield Avenue.

*[[Carrick Mural]] - Currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]]. Once the site of [[Agnew Glass Works]] and [[Werner Moving and Storage Company]].

*[[Carrick Post Office]] – First government post office in Baldwin Township established in December 23, 1853. Possibly located in later years next to the Carrick Borough offices in what is now [[Caruso’s Music Store]].

*[[Carrick Telephone office]] – Located at Overbrook Boulevard and Brownsville Road. 1904 had 50 subscribers, by 1910 had 300.

*[[Concord Church]] – was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831.

*[[Craillo]] area of Carrick near Concord Church.

*[[Engleartville]] – First name of the Carrick area named after Engleart Glass Company.

*[[Hess Farm]] - Located on Churchview Avenue - photo only

*[[Hornaday Road]] - named after [[William T. Hornaday]] by [[John M. Phillips]]William Hornaday was an environmentalist and naturalist and friend who accompanied John M. Phillips on many excursions to classify animals. Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Impton]] - Mansion's name of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Johnnies Ice Cream Bar]] - 154 Parkfield Street at corner of Spokane Avenue -served thousands of student from Carrick High School.

*[[Keeling Coal Company]] owner of a coal mine on St. Patrick Street in Mt. Oliver. The mine was connected with the South Side by an incline, now the site of South Side Park, that ran from St. Patrick St. to 21st St. The mine continued under Mt. Oliver, crossed a ravine on a 200 yard trestle over Wagner Street, and continued under Carrick near Bruner and Linnview Avenue. It then continued underground to Spiketown, where it emerged again. Coal from the Bausman mine was tranferred to a train pulled by a steam locomotive, and transported through the Keeling mine to the coal incline.

*[[L’Enfant]] [[L'Enfant - Mother's statue]]– Mother and child sculpture currently residing at Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street since 1966. Originally called L’Enfant was donated to the Mother’s House. Won second price in Paris, France. Sculpted by Roger Bloche.

*[[Maytide Street]] - Also check [[Street Names]]. Called Maine Street (also in Overbrook Borough) before Overbrook Borough became and Carrick Borough became part of the City of Pittsburgh

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Sankey Avenue the theater no longer exists but you can see some of the original building behind the new front.

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. This is the location of their first meeting house that was located at the corner of current Spokane and Parkfield Avenues.

*[[Nicholodean]] – Currently the St. Basil’s Credit Union and was the site of Carrick Library.

*[[Parkfield Street]]- Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[Phillips Park]] – named after [[John M. Phillips]] for the many donated trees and swimming pool. Also known as Dilly’s Grove, Southern Park and Carrick Park was originally a Trolley Traction Park with vaudeville acts, roller coasters, merry go rounds and other attractions. Dilly’s Grove was part of the Coffey Estate bought in 1904 for $29,000

*[[Phillips Properties]] - Scattered from Downtown Pittsburgh to the South Side (Birmingham) to Carrick this is a compilation of the Phillips properties by Robert F. Phillips.

*[[Phillips, Robert F.]] home - Home on Brownsville Road demolished for the now vacant Giant Eagle building. See [[Phillips Properties]]

*[[Raleigh Square]] – Once a farm and land taken in 1928 and prior to that year farm was here. The farm was not taken care and fire destroys the 2 story, frame, unpainted house of the farmer who had a wife and 8 children. Sold by the farmer who had 8 children but could no longer make ends meet. Land comprised of an area along Brownsville Road from the Phillips’ residence to Willies (across from Clifton Street to Maytide Street and on back to Phillps’ residence. The land bordered by Biscayne Avenue to around Wysox Avenue to Maytide Street to [[Valera Street]].

*[[Spiketown]] – Comes into existance in 1868. The area around current Volunteer’s Fields. Neighborhood of homes built by miners of the Keeling Coal Company. Said to be called Spiketown because the miners used mine spikes to build their homes. Also said to be named after the Speiker Family whose large family also lived in the area.

*[[Stewart Avenue]] – named after the great Stewart Farm. Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[The Boulevard]] - One of the very first streets in Carrick. Eligible for Historic District.

*[[Toll Stations]] – First toll station was located at Knox Avenue, another at the current Italian Club and a third at current Churchview Road

*[[Traction Park]] – Current Phillips Park becomes a “traction park.” Previously known as Dilly’s Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

*[[Utility covers]] - From Carrick Borough's past this is an assortment of utility covers. Can you find where they all are?

*[[William Wightman’s Land]] – Bought from the Indians for one iron ax by William Wightman. Area from present Parkfield Street to Maytide Street along Brownsville Road then west along Saw Mill Run. Present Verizon telephone building on this land.

*Wilson's Farm - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Valera Street]] - A portion of Valera Street is in an plan called Raleigh Square

== Library ==

*[[Carnegie Library - Carrick]] - 1811 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210 [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Carnegie Library Link]

== Maps ==

*[[Coal Mine Maps]] - A collection of underground coal mine maps under Carrick, Overbrook and the area. Courtesy of Carol Anthony.

*[[Maps]] - A collection of maps, plans and diagrams of Carrick
**[[Street Names]] - Changed street names when Carrick Borough became the 29th Ward of Pittsburgh in 1927
*[[Wilson Warranty Map]] of [[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick
* Additional maps on [http://images.library.pitt.edu/maps/searchpage.html Historic Pittsburgh CLICK HERE]

== War Memorials ==

*[[Missing WWII Memorial]] - photo of Mrs. Mary Quel standing next to the missing WWII war memorial.

*[[St. Basil Church]] - Positioned in front of St. Basil Church

*[[Partial List of War Memorials]]

== Near to Carrick ==
This section is for those historic places near to our neighborhood but not quite Carrick.

*[[18th Street]] - Late in the 19th century many people petitioned the city of Pittsburgh to build a decent road to the Hilltop, as the borough on the mountaintop were refered to then. Here is the location of a few photos of that road.

*[[Becks Run Flood]] - See [[Page's]]

*[[Page's]] - located at the intersection of Beck's Run Road and E. Carson Street Page's Gas Station and Dairy Store has been a fixture on the South Side for over a century. This intersection is on one of the gateway roads to Carrick.

*[[ Ulman-Horne VFW 456]] - Located at Penn Avenue and Hays Avenue in Mt. Oliver

== Organizations ==

*[[Carrick Borough]] - Formed in 1904 and annexed into the City of Pittsburgh in 1927.

*[[Carrick High School Alumni]]- [[Carrick High School]] alumni can visit the web site on this page to get together with former classmates.

*[[Carrick Community Council]] - Formed early in our history the community council is still valuable forum for residents to learn about the events in the neighborhood and find answers to problems and issues. Form more information [[http://www.carrickpa.com/ click here]]

*[[Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society]] - Formed officially in 2008 to document the history and current events of Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Carrick Council of Republican Women]] - photo with article

*[[GBU - German Beneficial Union]] - The GBU, or German Beneficial Union, originally began in Carrick with a great hall and building located at 2500 Brownsville Road. The building is currently an apartment building with 32 units.

*[[Italian Sons and Daughters of America]] - We all know it as their building as the Italian Club, former site of [[Bucks Tavern]].

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]].

*[[Republican Women of Carrick]] - photo with names

*[[Southern Country Club]] - a social club that once existed on Claus Avenue

*[[Totally Against Graffiti]] - an organization started by Melissa Rosenfeld to stamp out Carrick's graffiti.

*[[Tree Tenders]] - Carrick's Tree Tenders are a group of certified tree tenders who meet once per month to trim, mulch and weed our trees.

== People ==

*[[5th Contingent Leaving Carrick to Petersburg, VA April 3, 1918]] - Photo infront of the [[Concord Presbyterian Church]].

*[[Agnew, John]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Agnew, Mary]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Askin, Ralph]] - A physician who practiced in Carrick at 2117 Brownsville Road.

*Bauman, Wm. [[Wm. Bauman]] – First Police Chief

*Bausman, Nicholas [[Nicholas Bausman]] - early settler and landowner in 1818 sells the Carrick area to Noble Calhoun for $5,000.

*[[Benedik Family]] - 6 members of one family in the service.

*[[Bennet, William]] - recollections of Wm. Bennet, age 90

*[[Boardwalk John]] – nickname for [[John M. Phillips]] because he wanted to build a 4’ wide boardwalk from Mt. Oliver to the 3rd. toll gate. He had a vision of a future 60’ Right of Way street and sidewalk and had citizens volunteer to build the street. As a demonstration of what a 60’ Right of Way paved road and sidewalk would look like, [[John M. Phillips]] purchases the property across from his 2236 Brownsville Road home so he could lay sidewalks and widen and pave Brownsville Road.

*[[Beaumont, Jimmy]] - Jimmy Beaumont is the lead singer of Jimmy Beaumont and the [[Skyliners]].

*[[Bernarding Archbishop George E.]] - Missionary to New Guinea beginning in the late 1930s. He also went to St. Basils.

*[[Ball, Gail]] - rolling pin thrower winner article

*[[Brown, Sherry Miller]] - Director of the College of General Studies’ McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success

*Cary, Emily Prichard [[Emily Prichard Cary]] - She was a native of Pittsburgh and now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Emily writes about her life in Carrick.

*Calhoun, Noble [[Noble Calhoun]] - 1842 sells Carrick to William Noble for $17,000

*[[Carrick Centurions]] - A collection of Carrick residents who have reached the century mark birthdays.

*[[Caruso, Henry]] - Carrick business owner of Caruso's Music and music teacher.

*[[Dr. Dapper, Harry R., MD]] - Suddenly murdered in 1928, murder never found.

*Dawida, Audrey [[Audrey Dawida]] - Wife of Michael Dawida and community volunteer. Audrey was active in the neighborhood's history.

*Dawida, Michael [[Michael Dawida]] – State Representative, State Senator, Allegheny County Commissioner

*[[DeLuca, Mark]] - Carrick native and Muay Thai fighter won the Thai Boxing Association-Sanctioning Authority (TBA-SA) Superlightweight World Championship on Saturday Nov. 8, 2008, in Des Moines, Iowa.

* Devlin,Peter A. [[Peter A Devlin]] – one of the area’s first settlers. Log cabin moved to Phillips Park but no one remembers it there. One photo in the old South Hills Record shows it on Walton off Churchview.

*Diehl, Adam [[Adam Diehl]] – First Borough Burgess lived 2338 Brownsville Road.

*[[Donahue, Zysk Linda]] - Carrick Community Council Treasurer and community organizer

*Donely, Wm. McClurg [[William McClurg Donely]] – First Borough Engineer.

*Eld, John [[John Eld]] - grandson of [[John J. Fleming]] once lived on [[Valera Street]]. John provided photos of his house.

*[[Englert, Milton S.]] - One of the original landowners and citizens of Baldwin Township, later Carrick Borough. Legend has it that the Carrick area was once called Englertville because of the glass works owned by the Englerts.

*[[Fisher, Dr. Edward]] - CHS class of 1960

*[[Finch, Walter ]] – First Street Commissioner

*[[Fink, Jean]] - Carrick Community Council President, Board Member and Pittsburgh Public School Board Member

*Fleming, John J. [[John J. Fleming]] – industrialist and inventor who lived in Carrick and worked as the chief engineer of Phillips Mining and Manufacturing Company.

*[[Fragasso Bob]] - Financial Advisor

*[[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']] - World War II winner of Distinguished Service Cross

*[[Goettler Paul]] - Carrick resident and WWII veteran

*[[Guthoerl Kilroy, Irma]] - long time organist at St. Basil Church

*Haupt, J. A. J. [[J. A. J. Haupt]] – Fifth Burgess

*[[Hazlett, Rev. John]] – Pastor [[Concord Presbyterian Church]] in 1872 starts academy for Higher Education at his home, Oak Grove, on Brownsville Road and corner of Stewart Avenue. Academy was the first school south of the Monongahela River to provide secondary education for older boys and girls.

*[[Herman, JoAnn]] - Jo Ann Herman / Fervent guardian of Carrick neighborhood June 18, 1934 - April 9, 2009

*[[Hagerling, Sidney A.]] - Army Distinguished Service Medal Winner

*[[Hodgson, Naomi]] - Retirement notice

*[[Hyman, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School alumni and legendary Jazz singer

*[[Jankowski, Ron and Barringer, William]] - baseball tryout photo

*[[Jones, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School Alumni Sports Walk of Fame Inductee

*[[Jumbo]] – Motorcycle cop in Carrick Borough in the 1920’s

*Lemon, John [[John Lemon]] – First Borough Solicitor

*[[Lewis, Joseph P.]] - First cashier at Carrick Bank which opened in 1913

*[[Lipinski, Walter]] - Veteran and author

*[[Lucarelli, Louis]] - Vietnam Vet returns article and photo

*[[Karas, Joseph M.]] - article by Joseph M. Karas

*[[Kaskey Ray]] - Sculptor

*[[Koontz, Bob]]

*[[Kloss, Shirley]] - Famous violinist

*[[Kraft, Richard]] - History of his life in Carrick

*Markowitz, Nick [[Nick Markowitz]] – early (1976) Carrick Historian who contributed many works, research and authored dozens of article about Carrick.

*[[McCue, Tim]] - Carrick resident and stock car driver article.

*[[Miners]] - A collection of coal miner photos not of Carrick but possibly a representation of how life was in the coal mines for our former residents.

*[[McClure, William]] - one of Carrick Borough's founding members

*[[Morgan, Al]] - Long time Carrick resident who claims Carrick grew up around him.

*[[Mutchler, Russell]] - Fireman retires article

*Noble, William [[William Noble]] - 1855 sells 100 acres for $45,000 and in 1865 sells 100 acres for $106,000. Probable namesake of Noble's Lane.

*Nusser, John [[John Nusser]] – Third Burgess

*O'Brien, Dr. John [[Dr. John O’Brien]] – named the first US Post Office in this area in 1853 after his home town of Carrick-on-Suir.

*[[Phillips, Anna Jane]] - Daughter of Harriet Duff Phillips and John M. Phillips. Married to Joseph Shuman.

*Phillips, John [[John Phillips]] – Owned a mansion that sat in the middle of current [[Hornaday Road]] and owned 12 acres of land that became known as Phillips Manor.

*Phillips, Harriet Duff [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] – Wife of John M. Phillips, daughter of Dr. Duff. 1913 founded Mothers Club. 1916 founded Brashear Settlement. 1934-1938 President of the PA. Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Pioneer of Women's Health Programs, 1956 Phillips Elementary School named after her father and her. South Side Hospital Board of Directors. Board member of Pittsburgh Board of Education.

*[[Phillips, James]] - one of John Phillips' sons. Photo of property holdings.

*Phillips, John M. [[John M. Phillips]] – nephew of [[John Phillips]], PA Game Commissioner, City of Pittsburgh Councilman, creator of Phillips Park, owned mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road named [[Impton]], conservationist, creator of state parks, instrumental in the creation of the Boy Scouts of America earning the title "Chief Silver Tip" by American Indians who taught and knew him. John M. Phillips was also a naturalist, environmentalist, Boy Scout Founder in Pennsylvania, owner of Phillips Mine and Manufacturing Company. In 1924 President Calvin Cooledge named him chair of a national conference on conservation.

*Phillips' Children [[John M. Phillips’ Children]] – 3 daughters Mrs. Anna Jane Phillips Shuman, Mrs. Mary Phillips Lutz, Mrs. Margaret Phillips Chalfont, 2 sons John M. Phillips, Jr. (Whitehall Borough Councilman), James M. Phillips. Also had 13 grandchildren.

*[[Pikelis, Louis]] - article about no mail for his house

*[[Quel Brothers]] - Five brothers who served together in World War II

*[[Rapp, Janet Vogel]] - Female vocalist of the group [[The Skyliners]].

*[[Readshaw, Harry]] - local businessman and PA State Representative

*Rosenfeld, Melissa [[Melissa Rosenfeld]] - Two articles in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describe Melissa Rosenfeld [[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] and [[Art project spruces up Carrick]].

*[[Rudiak, John J.]] - Carrick Community Council President, community organizer, PennDOT Traffic Systems Control Specialist

*[[Rudiak, Natalia A.]] - In 1997 named Carrick High School's Senior of the year. On May 19,2009 Natalia Rudiak becomes the first female City Councilperson to represent District 4 and the first Councilperson from Carrick.

*[[Russell, Robert]] – First Borough Clerk

*[[Sachko, Melody]] - Spelling Bee Champ

*Saits, John [[John Saits]] – First Borough Tax Collector

*Sankey Wm.; Phillips John M.; Benz, Phillip; Hartung, Richard; Dieterle Jacob; Eiler, Henry; Werner,John - [[First Council of Carrick Borough]]

*Sankey, William, Jr. [[William Sankey, Jr.]] – Fourth Burgess

*[[Sankey, Walter]] - Newspaper article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "To Charlotte, with love."

*Schenk, Henry [[Henry Schenk]] – Second Burgess

*[[Seemiller, Danny]] - Danny Seemiller is an American table tennis player. By 1972, he was the number one qualifier on the U.S. World Team. he has won five U.S. Men's Singles Championships (in 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983). He was once ranked #19 in the world.

*[[Scarletelli Family]] - Old photos of the Scarletelli family donated by Bernie Scarletelli

*[[Sexauer, Dr John F.]] - MD Carrick's popular General Practitioner, whose office was above Heinauer's Drug Store on Brownsville Road. Dr Sexauer was the CHS football team doctor in the fifties and sixties. The family resided on Overbrook Blvd, and had 3 children (Sue, Janet, and Jack/John Jr who graduated from CHS in 1960)

*[[Shuty, Betty]] - Local resident

*[[Smithdas, Robert]] - Article about Robert Smithdas

*[[Speicher, Joseph]] – Carrick Historian in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

*[[Sprenkle, Wm. H.]] – President Principal of Schools from 1909

*Stanford, J. S. [[J. S. Stanford]] – First Postmaster of the Carrick Post Office in December 23, 1853

*Stolzenbach, C. H. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] – First President of Carrick Bank

*[[Stolzenbach, A. H.]] - First Borough Treasurer,

*Tepe, Marie Brose [[Marie Brose Tepe]] - Also known as "French Mary"

*[[Trautmann, Albert R.]] - Vietnam veteran article

*Trott, Ellsworth C. [[Ellsworth C. Trott]] – Last Burgess of Carrick Borough 1927.

*[[Urban, Bill]] - Artist

*[[Urbaniak, John]] - Painter

*[[Vooletich Family]] - article describing orthodox dinner at the Vooletich home

*[[Warble Alexandra]] - Carrick High School 2008 Extra Effort Awardee

*[[Warble Family]] - The Warble family is an amazing asset to the Carrick Community

*[[Washburn, Dr Alan]] - distinguished engineer and professor, youngest child of educators Dr Merle and Lois Washburn, (John/Jack and Carolyn were siblings, all 3 were graduates of Carrick HS). The family resided on Almont Street.

*[[Wightman, William]] - One first settlers of Carrick, then St. Clair Township.

*[[Wigman Family]] - Photos and story about the Wigman Family who owned and built the historic [[Wigman House]].

*Wilson, James [[James Wilson]] – First Carrick Borough Post Master

*Wilson, John - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick [[Wilson Warranty Map]]

*[[Windstein, Robert]] - Wins award photo article

*[[Wine, Michelle]] - one of the first recipients of a liver transplant with donations from the community.

*[[Woshner, Michael]] - Carrick Community Volunteer

*[[Wright, Margaret Persosky]] - Young Carrick mother died on Easter Day 1930 after being beaten and molested on the shores of the Allegheny River. Murder never found.

== Schools ==

*[[Desegregation Thesis by William D. Rutherford]] - A desegregation thesis by William D. Rutherford regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools

*[[Carrick High School]]- The first graduating class was in 1926.
**[[Carrick High School 1939 Yearbook]] - Full copy of 1939 Carrick High School yearbook
**[[Carrick High School Twentieth Anniversary Edition 1926-1946]] - A special edition of the school's yearbooks. Especially interesting is the listing in photos and descriptions of those young men who died in the service.
** [[Carrick High School in the News]] - articles regarding Carrick High School.
** [[Carrick High School Sports]] - articles regarding Carrick High School Sports.
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1926-1976]] - newspaper photo and photo of reunion
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1985]] - booklet presented at the reunion
** [[Carrick Alumni]] - 2013 Honors Alumni

*[[Carrick High School Reunion the first 75 years]]
**[[Carrick High School 1920s]]
**[[Carrick High School Started at Quentin Roosevelt School in 1923]]
**[[Carrick High School Opened in 1924]]
**[[Carrick High School 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School 1926 Football Team]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of January 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of June 1926]]
**[[Carrick High School 1927]]
**[[Carrick High School 1928]]
**[[Carrick High School 1929]]
**[[Carrick High School 1930s]]
**[[Carrick High School Reunion Photo 1931-1981]]
**[[Carrick High School graduate sang with Glen Miller]]
**[[Carrick High School 1941]]
**[[Carrick High School Class of 41 Fight Song]]
**[[Carrick High School Last School Board]]
**[[Carrick High School Bill Lawrence '45 Spitfire Band]]
**[[Carrick High School Alma Mater Correction]]
**[[Carrick High School Jim Reiter]]
**[[Carrick High School 54 students died WWII list]]

*[[Concord Elementary School]] – current location is the fifth location. Originally built on the back of Concord Church as one room and became known as Concord. Second location at Brownsville Road and Agnew Avenue, Third location on Agnew Avenue and Dowling. Forth location on Carrick Avenue. Fifth and final location on Brownsville Road and Biscayne Avenue.

** [[Concord Chronicles]] - Concord Chronicles is a newsletter for parents and students of Concord Elementary School.

** [[Concord Elementary School News]] - Articles about events at Concord Elementary School.

*[[First school in Carrick]] – name unknown but reference is made to a school in a house at Brownsville Road and Wynoka Street.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[Roosevelt Elementary School]] - The original was located on [[The Boulevard]] and although rebuilt in the 1950s, it is still an elementary school. The original was named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Roosevelt Quentin Roosevelt] [[Quentin Roosevelt Elementary School]] after President Theodore Roosevelt's son who died in the First World War and was one of the original pilots who were buried in France during the war and remains there.

*[[Union High School]] - The Borough of Knoxville was the location of this high school. It was attended by the Borough of Carrick residents before Carrick High School was built.

== Sports ==

*[[1912 Baseball Team]] - Can you identify these people in this photo?

*[[Bowling]] - Can you identify the places and the people in these photos?

*[[Carrick Community Athletic Association]] - [http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=ccaabaseball Carrick Baseball Link]

*[[Carrick Crackerjacks]]

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Basketball]] - Basketball Team

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Football]] - Football Team

*[[Carrick Girls Softball Champions]]

*[[Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church Baseball Team 1923]] - winner of The Press Carrick Church League Championship of 1923

*[[Goose Goslings]]

*[[Pony League Champions]] - 1953 photo of Carrick's first Pony League Team and Champions

*[[Sports Teams]] - Amateur and Church affiliated teams in Carrick

== Streetcars ==

* [[Carrick Streetcar Ordinance]] - "If a streetcar picked up a fireman on the way to a fire, streetcar was not allowed to stop except to pick up another fireman."

* [[Horse Trolley]] - last run article

* [[Phillips Park Traction Park]] - Current Phillips Park becomes a "traction park." Previously known as Dilly's Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

* [[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

* [[Trolley 59 Carrick]] - Double ended trolley operated in the 1920's during rush hour and turned around on a short track spur at the corner of Brownsville Road and Crailo Street.

* [[Trolley Barns]] - Carrick Shopping Center where the current Foodland is located was a brick trolley barn, demolished in the 1950's and the end of the line at one time.

== Who are you ==

*[[Who are you]] - A collection of photos with no description and need an explanation.

*[[Polish Mill Worker Tag]] - Anyone know John Zaine, Polish mill worker in 1919?

*[[Unknown Tintype Photo]] - unknown location

== Notice ==

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Phillips, Anna Jane

2021-01-17T20:41:08Z

Jrudiak: /* 9 - 4 THE PENNSYLVANIA MANUAL */

== This is a photo of John M. Phillips' children on the front lawn of his mansion "[[Impton]]" at 2236 Brownsville Road with Richard B. Mellon, Richard King Mellon and Sara Mellon. ==

[[Image:Phillips kids at 2236 Brownsville Road on the lawn.jpg]]

== DISTINGUISHED DAUGHTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA AWARDS ==

== 9 - 4 THE PENNSYLVANIA MANUAL ==
[[ http://www.distinguisheddaughtersofpa.org/Resources/1949-to-2008-directory.pdf ]]

In 1948 a group of influential women suggested to Governor
James H. Duff that outstanding women of Pennsylvania
be recognized for their leadership and contributions to the
state. The plans to honor these women developed into the
Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania Awards, and the
first awards were given in 1949.
Each year, state organizations nominate women in recognition
of outstanding accomplishments of statewide or
national importance. Quality of achievement of the individual
comes first. The Daughters select the names to be given to
the governor for approval.

1949

Louise Bush-Brown (Mrs. James) .............................Ambler

Anita Porter Clothier (Mrs. William J.)...............Valley Forge

Charlotte Fasy (Mrs. Francis I.) ............................Drexel Hill

Lena L. Orlow Ginsburg (Mrs. Abram) ...............Philadelphia

Vira Heinz (Mrs. Clifford S.)..................................Pittsburgh

Althea K. Hottel, Ph.D. (Mrs. A. Stauffer)...........Philadelphia

Caroline M. Huber (Mrs. John Y. Jr.)......................Haverford

Victoria Lyles, Ph.D. .....................................Wagoner, Okla.

Pauline Berry Mack, Ph.D. (Mrs. Warren B.).......Denton, Tex.

Katherine Elizabeth McBride, Ph.D.......................Bryn Mawr

Gertrude H. McCormick (Mrs. Vance C.) ..............Harrisburg

Catherine MacFarlane, M.D...............................Philadelphia

'''Harriet Duff Phillips (Mrs. John M.) ......................Pittsburgh'''

Mabelle K. Price (Mrs. Walter)..........................Philadelphia

Francis Anne Wister..........................................Philadelphia

Marian M. Wunderle (Mrs. Horace G.).........................Rydal

Mary Curtis Zimbalist (Mrs. Efrem) ...................Philadelphia

== Harriet Duff Phillips' daughter was similarly honored in 1976: ==

1976
R. Jean Brownlee, Ph.D.....................................Philadelphia

Loti G. Falk (Mrs. Frank Gaffney)...........................Pittsburgh

Sarah Lee Lippincott
(Mrs. Christian Zimmerman) ..................Kennett Square

Sondra Stark Osler (Mrs. William Hull) ..........Wormleysburg

Sister Jane Scully, RSM .......................................Pittsburgh

'''Anna Jane Phillips Shuman (Mrs. Joseph)............Pittsburgh'''

== What happened to PG reporter Anna Jane Phillips, star of 'A Murder of Convenience'? ==

LAURA MALT SCHNEIDERMAN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
lschneiderman@post-gazette.com

JAN 8, 2021 12:00 AM

When the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the last chapter of its serial novel “A Murder of Convenience” on Jan. 4, we left some readers hanging. The biggest loose end: What happened to Anna Jane Phillips, the real Post-Gazette reporter who covered Martha Westwood’s murder in 1935?

Before we answer that, let’s meet the real Anna Jane, who was known to her family as A.J. She was the oldest of five children and grew up in a turreted mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road in Carrick.

Her father, John M. Phillips, was president of Phillips Mine and Supply Co., and inventor of machinery such as the Phillips automatic crossover dump car. Her mother, the former Harriet Duff, was the cousin of James H. Duff, a Pennsylvania governor and U.S. senator.

Anna Jane earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

In 1930, she became the first woman writer hired at the Post-Gazette but was relegated to being editor of the “Woman’s Page.” Eventually, she escaped writing lovelorn columns and began covering major news stories under the watchful eye of city editor Joseph Shuman.

A Murder of Convenience
“A Murder of Convenience,” a serial novel by writers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is based on a real crime in the summer of 1935. Read past chapters here.
“She loved to write,” said her only surviving child, Margaret Shuman Cullen, of Brooklyn, N.Y. “My memory of Mother was either typing or on the phone.”

Anna Jane especially liked covering crime, and she often scooped her male counterparts by interviewing the women involved, her daughter said. As shown in Chapter 7 of “A Murder of Convenience,” she was the only reporter from Pittsburgh’s three major newspapers — the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph — who did in-depth interviews with the family of George Matuza, a steelworker and eyewitness who died under suspicious circumstances.

“She was just an incredibly bright woman before the time when that was OK,” her daughter said.

She even wrote about crime for other publications. According to family lore, her son, Joseph Duff Shuman, found a box in the attic of True Detective magazines that included stories his mother had written under a pseudonym.

“She was furious,” Ms. Cullen recalled.

Apparently the crime reporter had hoped to keep secret her history as a pulp fiction writer.

In 1936, she accompanied Margaret Sanger, founder of the forerunner of Planned Parenthood, to India, where Ms. Sanger lobbied for birth control. Anna Jane’s mother had been a pioneer in birth control advocacy and held a seat on the local Planned Parenthood board. Anna Jane had a seat on the same board and promoted family planning throughout her life.

Now here’s the kicker: Remember Joe Shuman, the city editor who funneled big stories to Anna Jane? Well, in 1941, she married him and stopped working at the PG.

She and her husband were from very different backgrounds. He was Jewish and had grown up without wealth or influence in Tennessee. She came from a well-to-do local family with political connections and a philanthropic streak.

Anna Jane played a key role in the construction of a new juvenile detention center with expanded services and more capacity. The Anna Jane Phillips Shuman Detention Center was built in 1975 on Leech Farm Road where Pittsburgh Job Corps Center is now. It’s near where the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center stands today on Highland Drive.

She was a member of the anti-crime Regional Council of Governor’s Justice Commission until 1973, when she resigned in disgust along with future Gov. Richard Thornburgh. Both said the commission was too politicized to be effective.

Anna Jane generally wore two-piece suits and “she never wore flats,” Ms. Cullen said. She also refused to follow the 1950s trend of long fingernails with red polish, preferring short nails and Elizabeth Arden Windsor Rose, a subdued shade of pink.

“She thought [red polish] was a little tacky,” Ms. Cullen said.

“A dedicated smoker,” Anna Jane despised domestic pursuits and had no sewing machine. Yet she hand-sewed clothes for her daughter’s baby doll when she was ill in bed with emphysema or other health problems.

In 1976, she died suddenly of a heart attack at age 69.

Joseph Shuman retired from the Post-Gazette in 1973 as managing editor and died of heart failure in 1988. Their son, Joseph, died in 2017. Some of the Phillips cousins continue to live in the Pittsburgh area.

Laura Malt Schneiderman: lschneiderman@post-gazette.com.

Read more here [[ https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/01/08/Anna-Jane-Phillips-Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette-reporter-serial-novel-Murder-of-Convenience-Shuman/stories/202101050130]]

[[File:Anna Jane Phillips Story.jpg]]

[[File:Anna Jane Phillips.jpg]]

Read online murder series here [[ https://www.post-gazette.com/a-murder-of-convenience-novel]]

First Published January 8, 2021, 12:00am

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Phillips, Anna Jane

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== This is a photo of John M. Phillips' children on the front lawn of his mansion "[[Impton]]" at 2236 Brownsville Road with Richard B. Mellon, Richard King Mellon and Sara Mellon. ==

[[Image:Phillips kids at 2236 Brownsville Road on the lawn.jpg]]

== DISTINGUISHED DAUGHTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA AWARDS ==

== 9 - 4 THE PENNSYLVANIA MANUAL ==

In 1948 a group of influential women suggested to Governor
James H. Duff that outstanding women of Pennsylvania
be recognized for their leadership and contributions to the
state. The plans to honor these women developed into the
Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania Awards, and the
first awards were given in 1949.
Each year, state organizations nominate women in recognition
of outstanding accomplishments of statewide or
national importance. Quality of achievement of the individual
comes first. The Daughters select the names to be given to
the governor for approval.

1949

Louise Bush-Brown (Mrs. James) .............................Ambler

Anita Porter Clothier (Mrs. William J.)...............Valley Forge

Charlotte Fasy (Mrs. Francis I.) ............................Drexel Hill

Lena L. Orlow Ginsburg (Mrs. Abram) ...............Philadelphia

Vira Heinz (Mrs. Clifford S.)..................................Pittsburgh

Althea K. Hottel, Ph.D. (Mrs. A. Stauffer)...........Philadelphia

Caroline M. Huber (Mrs. John Y. Jr.)......................Haverford

Victoria Lyles, Ph.D. .....................................Wagoner, Okla.

Pauline Berry Mack, Ph.D. (Mrs. Warren B.).......Denton, Tex.

Katherine Elizabeth McBride, Ph.D.......................Bryn Mawr

Gertrude H. McCormick (Mrs. Vance C.) ..............Harrisburg

Catherine MacFarlane, M.D...............................Philadelphia

'''Harriet Duff Phillips (Mrs. John M.) ......................Pittsburgh'''

Mabelle K. Price (Mrs. Walter)..........................Philadelphia

Francis Anne Wister..........................................Philadelphia

Marian M. Wunderle (Mrs. Horace G.).........................Rydal

Mary Curtis Zimbalist (Mrs. Efrem) ...................Philadelphia

== Harriet Duff Phillips' daughter was similarly honored in 1976: ==

1976
R. Jean Brownlee, Ph.D.....................................Philadelphia

Loti G. Falk (Mrs. Frank Gaffney)...........................Pittsburgh

Sarah Lee Lippincott
(Mrs. Christian Zimmerman) ..................Kennett Square

Sondra Stark Osler (Mrs. William Hull) ..........Wormleysburg

Sister Jane Scully, RSM .......................................Pittsburgh

'''Anna Jane Phillips Shuman (Mrs. Joseph)............Pittsburgh'''

== What happened to PG reporter Anna Jane Phillips, star of 'A Murder of Convenience'? ==

LAURA MALT SCHNEIDERMAN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
lschneiderman@post-gazette.com

JAN 8, 2021 12:00 AM

When the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the last chapter of its serial novel “A Murder of Convenience” on Jan. 4, we left some readers hanging. The biggest loose end: What happened to Anna Jane Phillips, the real Post-Gazette reporter who covered Martha Westwood’s murder in 1935?

Before we answer that, let’s meet the real Anna Jane, who was known to her family as A.J. She was the oldest of five children and grew up in a turreted mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road in Carrick.

Her father, John M. Phillips, was president of Phillips Mine and Supply Co., and inventor of machinery such as the Phillips automatic crossover dump car. Her mother, the former Harriet Duff, was the cousin of James H. Duff, a Pennsylvania governor and U.S. senator.

Anna Jane earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

In 1930, she became the first woman writer hired at the Post-Gazette but was relegated to being editor of the “Woman’s Page.” Eventually, she escaped writing lovelorn columns and began covering major news stories under the watchful eye of city editor Joseph Shuman.

A Murder of Convenience
“A Murder of Convenience,” a serial novel by writers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is based on a real crime in the summer of 1935. Read past chapters here.
“She loved to write,” said her only surviving child, Margaret Shuman Cullen, of Brooklyn, N.Y. “My memory of Mother was either typing or on the phone.”

Anna Jane especially liked covering crime, and she often scooped her male counterparts by interviewing the women involved, her daughter said. As shown in Chapter 7 of “A Murder of Convenience,” she was the only reporter from Pittsburgh’s three major newspapers — the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph — who did in-depth interviews with the family of George Matuza, a steelworker and eyewitness who died under suspicious circumstances.

“She was just an incredibly bright woman before the time when that was OK,” her daughter said.

She even wrote about crime for other publications. According to family lore, her son, Joseph Duff Shuman, found a box in the attic of True Detective magazines that included stories his mother had written under a pseudonym.

“She was furious,” Ms. Cullen recalled.

Apparently the crime reporter had hoped to keep secret her history as a pulp fiction writer.

In 1936, she accompanied Margaret Sanger, founder of the forerunner of Planned Parenthood, to India, where Ms. Sanger lobbied for birth control. Anna Jane’s mother had been a pioneer in birth control advocacy and held a seat on the local Planned Parenthood board. Anna Jane had a seat on the same board and promoted family planning throughout her life.

Now here’s the kicker: Remember Joe Shuman, the city editor who funneled big stories to Anna Jane? Well, in 1941, she married him and stopped working at the PG.

She and her husband were from very different backgrounds. He was Jewish and had grown up without wealth or influence in Tennessee. She came from a well-to-do local family with political connections and a philanthropic streak.

Anna Jane played a key role in the construction of a new juvenile detention center with expanded services and more capacity. The Anna Jane Phillips Shuman Detention Center was built in 1975 on Leech Farm Road where Pittsburgh Job Corps Center is now. It’s near where the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center stands today on Highland Drive.

She was a member of the anti-crime Regional Council of Governor’s Justice Commission until 1973, when she resigned in disgust along with future Gov. Richard Thornburgh. Both said the commission was too politicized to be effective.

Anna Jane generally wore two-piece suits and “she never wore flats,” Ms. Cullen said. She also refused to follow the 1950s trend of long fingernails with red polish, preferring short nails and Elizabeth Arden Windsor Rose, a subdued shade of pink.

“She thought [red polish] was a little tacky,” Ms. Cullen said.

“A dedicated smoker,” Anna Jane despised domestic pursuits and had no sewing machine. Yet she hand-sewed clothes for her daughter’s baby doll when she was ill in bed with emphysema or other health problems.

In 1976, she died suddenly of a heart attack at age 69.

Joseph Shuman retired from the Post-Gazette in 1973 as managing editor and died of heart failure in 1988. Their son, Joseph, died in 2017. Some of the Phillips cousins continue to live in the Pittsburgh area.

Laura Malt Schneiderman: lschneiderman@post-gazette.com.

Read more here [[ https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/01/08/Anna-Jane-Phillips-Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette-reporter-serial-novel-Murder-of-Convenience-Shuman/stories/202101050130]]

[[File:Anna Jane Phillips Story.jpg]]

[[File:Anna Jane Phillips.jpg]]

Read online murder series here [[ https://www.post-gazette.com/a-murder-of-convenience-novel]]

First Published January 8, 2021, 12:00am

File:Anna Jane Phillips Story.jpg

2021-01-17T19:17:32Z

Jrudiak:

File:Anna Jane Phillips.jpg

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Phillips, Anna Jane

2021-01-17T19:08:38Z

Jrudiak:

== This is a photo of John M. Phillips' children on the front lawn of his mansion "[[Impton]]" at 2236 Brownsville Road with Richard B. Mellon, Richard King Mellon and Sara Mellon. ==

[[Image:Phillips kids at 2236 Brownsville Road on the lawn.jpg]]

== DISTINGUISHED DAUGHTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA AWARDS ==

== 9 - 4 THE PENNSYLVANIA MANUAL ==

In 1948 a group of influential women suggested to Governor
James H. Duff that outstanding women of Pennsylvania
be recognized for their leadership and contributions to the
state. The plans to honor these women developed into the
Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania Awards, and the
first awards were given in 1949.
Each year, state organizations nominate women in recognition
of outstanding accomplishments of statewide or
national importance. Quality of achievement of the individual
comes first. The Daughters select the names to be given to
the governor for approval.

1949

Louise Bush-Brown (Mrs. James) .............................Ambler

Anita Porter Clothier (Mrs. William J.)...............Valley Forge

Charlotte Fasy (Mrs. Francis I.) ............................Drexel Hill

Lena L. Orlow Ginsburg (Mrs. Abram) ...............Philadelphia

Vira Heinz (Mrs. Clifford S.)..................................Pittsburgh

Althea K. Hottel, Ph.D. (Mrs. A. Stauffer)...........Philadelphia

Caroline M. Huber (Mrs. John Y. Jr.)......................Haverford

Victoria Lyles, Ph.D. .....................................Wagoner, Okla.

Pauline Berry Mack, Ph.D. (Mrs. Warren B.).......Denton, Tex.

Katherine Elizabeth McBride, Ph.D.......................Bryn Mawr

Gertrude H. McCormick (Mrs. Vance C.) ..............Harrisburg

Catherine MacFarlane, M.D...............................Philadelphia

'''Harriet Duff Phillips (Mrs. John M.) ......................Pittsburgh'''

Mabelle K. Price (Mrs. Walter)..........................Philadelphia

Francis Anne Wister..........................................Philadelphia

Marian M. Wunderle (Mrs. Horace G.).........................Rydal

Mary Curtis Zimbalist (Mrs. Efrem) ...................Philadelphia

== Harriet Duff Phillips' daughter was similarly honored in 1976: ==

1976
R. Jean Brownlee, Ph.D.....................................Philadelphia

Loti G. Falk (Mrs. Frank Gaffney)...........................Pittsburgh

Sarah Lee Lippincott
(Mrs. Christian Zimmerman) ..................Kennett Square

Sondra Stark Osler (Mrs. William Hull) ..........Wormleysburg

Sister Jane Scully, RSM .......................................Pittsburgh

'''Anna Jane Phillips Shuman (Mrs. Joseph)............Pittsburgh'''

== What happened to PG reporter Anna Jane Phillips, star of 'A Murder of Convenience'? ==

LAURA MALT SCHNEIDERMAN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
lschneiderman@post-gazette.com

JAN 8, 2021 12:00 AM

When the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the last chapter of its serial novel “A Murder of Convenience” on Jan. 4, we left some readers hanging. The biggest loose end: What happened to Anna Jane Phillips, the real Post-Gazette reporter who covered Martha Westwood’s murder in 1935?

Before we answer that, let’s meet the real Anna Jane, who was known to her family as A.J. She was the oldest of five children and grew up in a turreted mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road in Carrick.

Her father, John M. Phillips, was president of Phillips Mine and Supply Co., and inventor of machinery such as the Phillips automatic crossover dump car. Her mother, the former Harriet Duff, was the cousin of James H. Duff, a Pennsylvania governor and U.S. senator.

Anna Jane earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

In 1930, she became the first woman writer hired at the Post-Gazette but was relegated to being editor of the “Woman’s Page.” Eventually, she escaped writing lovelorn columns and began covering major news stories under the watchful eye of city editor Joseph Shuman.

A Murder of Convenience
“A Murder of Convenience,” a serial novel by writers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is based on a real crime in the summer of 1935. Read past chapters here.
“She loved to write,” said her only surviving child, Margaret Shuman Cullen, of Brooklyn, N.Y. “My memory of Mother was either typing or on the phone.”

Anna Jane especially liked covering crime, and she often scooped her male counterparts by interviewing the women involved, her daughter said. As shown in Chapter 7 of “A Murder of Convenience,” she was the only reporter from Pittsburgh’s three major newspapers — the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph — who did in-depth interviews with the family of George Matuza, a steelworker and eyewitness who died under suspicious circumstances.

“She was just an incredibly bright woman before the time when that was OK,” her daughter said.

She even wrote about crime for other publications. According to family lore, her son, Joseph Duff Shuman, found a box in the attic of True Detective magazines that included stories his mother had written under a pseudonym.

“She was furious,” Ms. Cullen recalled.

Apparently the crime reporter had hoped to keep secret her history as a pulp fiction writer.

In 1936, she accompanied Margaret Sanger, founder of the forerunner of Planned Parenthood, to India, where Ms. Sanger lobbied for birth control. Anna Jane’s mother had been a pioneer in birth control advocacy and held a seat on the local Planned Parenthood board. Anna Jane had a seat on the same board and promoted family planning throughout her life.

Now here’s the kicker: Remember Joe Shuman, the city editor who funneled big stories to Anna Jane? Well, in 1941, she married him and stopped working at the PG.

She and her husband were from very different backgrounds. He was Jewish and had grown up without wealth or influence in Tennessee. She came from a well-to-do local family with political connections and a philanthropic streak.

Anna Jane played a key role in the construction of a new juvenile detention center with expanded services and more capacity. The Anna Jane Phillips Shuman Detention Center was built in 1975 on Leech Farm Road where Pittsburgh Job Corps Center is now. It’s near where the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center stands today on Highland Drive.

She was a member of the anti-crime Regional Council of Governor’s Justice Commission until 1973, when she resigned in disgust along with future Gov. Richard Thornburgh. Both said the commission was too politicized to be effective.

Anna Jane generally wore two-piece suits and “she never wore flats,” Ms. Cullen said. She also refused to follow the 1950s trend of long fingernails with red polish, preferring short nails and Elizabeth Arden Windsor Rose, a subdued shade of pink.

“She thought [red polish] was a little tacky,” Ms. Cullen said.

“A dedicated smoker,” Anna Jane despised domestic pursuits and had no sewing machine. Yet she hand-sewed clothes for her daughter’s baby doll when she was ill in bed with emphysema or other health problems.

In 1976, she died suddenly of a heart attack at age 69.

Joseph Shuman retired from the Post-Gazette in 1973 as managing editor and died of heart failure in 1988. Their son, Joseph, died in 2017. Some of the Phillips cousins continue to live in the Pittsburgh area.

Laura Malt Schneiderman: lschneiderman@post-gazette.com.

Read more here [[ https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/01/08/Anna-Jane-Phillips-Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette-reporter-serial-novel-Murder-of-Convenience-Shuman/stories/202101050130]]

Read online murder series here [[ https://www.post-gazette.com/a-murder-of-convenience-novel]]

First Published January 8, 2021, 12:00am

Phillips, Anna Jane

2021-01-17T19:01:41Z

Jrudiak:

== This is a photo of John M. Phillips' children on the front lawn of his mansion "[[Impton]]" at 2236 Brownsville Road with Richard B. Mellon, Richard King Mellon and Sara Mellon. ==

[[Image:Phillips kids at 2236 Brownsville Road on the lawn.jpg]]

== DISTINGUISHED DAUGHTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA AWARDS ==

== 9 - 4 THE PENNSYLVANIA MANUAL ==

In 1948 a group of influential women suggested to Governor
James H. Duff that outstanding women of Pennsylvania
be recognized for their leadership and contributions to the
state. The plans to honor these women developed into the
Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania Awards, and the
first awards were given in 1949.
Each year, state organizations nominate women in recognition
of outstanding accomplishments of statewide or
national importance. Quality of achievement of the individual
comes first. The Daughters select the names to be given to
the governor for approval.

1949

Louise Bush-Brown (Mrs. James) .............................Ambler

Anita Porter Clothier (Mrs. William J.)...............Valley Forge

Charlotte Fasy (Mrs. Francis I.) ............................Drexel Hill

Lena L. Orlow Ginsburg (Mrs. Abram) ...............Philadelphia

Vira Heinz (Mrs. Clifford S.)..................................Pittsburgh

Althea K. Hottel, Ph.D. (Mrs. A. Stauffer)...........Philadelphia

Caroline M. Huber (Mrs. John Y. Jr.)......................Haverford

Victoria Lyles, Ph.D. .....................................Wagoner, Okla.

Pauline Berry Mack, Ph.D. (Mrs. Warren B.).......Denton, Tex.

Katherine Elizabeth McBride, Ph.D.......................Bryn Mawr

Gertrude H. McCormick (Mrs. Vance C.) ..............Harrisburg

Catherine MacFarlane, M.D...............................Philadelphia

'''Harriet Duff Phillips (Mrs. John M.) ......................Pittsburgh'''

Mabelle K. Price (Mrs. Walter)..........................Philadelphia

Francis Anne Wister..........................................Philadelphia

Marian M. Wunderle (Mrs. Horace G.).........................Rydal

Mary Curtis Zimbalist (Mrs. Efrem) ...................Philadelphia

== Harriet Duff Phillips' daughter was similarly honored in 1976: ==

1976
R. Jean Brownlee, Ph.D.....................................Philadelphia

Loti G. Falk (Mrs. Frank Gaffney)...........................Pittsburgh

Sarah Lee Lippincott
(Mrs. Christian Zimmerman) ..................Kennett Square

Sondra Stark Osler (Mrs. William Hull) ..........Wormleysburg

Sister Jane Scully, RSM .......................................Pittsburgh

'''Anna Jane Phillips Shuman (Mrs. Joseph)............Pittsburgh'''

== What happened to PG reporter Anna Jane Phillips, star of 'A Murder of Convenience'? ==

LAURA MALT SCHNEIDERMAN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
lschneiderman@post-gazette.com

JAN 8, 2021 12:00 AM

When the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the last chapter of its serial novel “A Murder of Convenience” on Jan. 4, we left some readers hanging. The biggest loose end: What happened to Anna Jane Phillips, the real Post-Gazette reporter who covered Martha Westwood’s murder in 1935?

Before we answer that, let’s meet the real Anna Jane, who was known to her family as A.J. She was the oldest of five children and grew up in a turreted mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road in Carrick.

Her father, John M. Phillips, was president of Phillips Mine and Supply Co., and inventor of machinery such as the Phillips automatic crossover dump car. Her mother, the former Harriet Duff, was the cousin of James H. Duff, a Pennsylvania governor and U.S. senator.

Anna Jane earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

In 1930, she became the first woman writer hired at the Post-Gazette but was relegated to being editor of the “Woman’s Page.” Eventually, she escaped writing lovelorn columns and began covering major news stories under the watchful eye of city editor Joseph Shuman.

A Murder of Convenience
“A Murder of Convenience,” a serial novel by writers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is based on a real crime in the summer of 1935. Read past chapters here.
“She loved to write,” said her only surviving child, Margaret Shuman Cullen, of Brooklyn, N.Y. “My memory of Mother was either typing or on the phone.”

Anna Jane especially liked covering crime, and she often scooped her male counterparts by interviewing the women involved, her daughter said. As shown in Chapter 7 of “A Murder of Convenience,” she was the only reporter from Pittsburgh’s three major newspapers — the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph — who did in-depth interviews with the family of George Matuza, a steelworker and eyewitness who died under suspicious circumstances.

“She was just an incredibly bright woman before the time when that was OK,” her daughter said.

She even wrote about crime for other publications. According to family lore, her son, Joseph Duff Shuman, found a box in the attic of True Detective magazines that included stories his mother had written under a pseudonym.

“She was furious,” Ms. Cullen recalled.

Apparently the crime reporter had hoped to keep secret her history as a pulp fiction writer.

In 1936, she accompanied Margaret Sanger, founder of the forerunner of Planned Parenthood, to India, where Ms. Sanger lobbied for birth control. Anna Jane’s mother had been a pioneer in birth control advocacy and held a seat on the local Planned Parenthood board. Anna Jane had a seat on the same board and promoted family planning throughout her life.

Now here’s the kicker: Remember Joe Shuman, the city editor who funneled big stories to Anna Jane? Well, in 1941, she married him and stopped working at the PG.

She and her husband were from very different backgrounds. He was Jewish and had grown up without wealth or influence in Tennessee. She came from a well-to-do local family with political connections and a philanthropic streak.

Anna Jane played a key role in the construction of a new juvenile detention center with expanded services and more capacity. The Anna Jane Phillips Shuman Detention Center was built in 1975 on Leech Farm Road where Pittsburgh Job Corps Center is now. It’s near where the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center stands today on Highland Drive.

She was a member of the anti-crime Regional Council of Governor’s Justice Commission until 1973, when she resigned in disgust along with future Gov. Richard Thornburgh. Both said the commission was too politicized to be effective.

Anna Jane generally wore two-piece suits and “she never wore flats,” Ms. Cullen said. She also refused to follow the 1950s trend of long fingernails with red polish, preferring short nails and Elizabeth Arden Windsor Rose, a subdued shade of pink.

“She thought [red polish] was a little tacky,” Ms. Cullen said.

“A dedicated smoker,” Anna Jane despised domestic pursuits and had no sewing machine. Yet she hand-sewed clothes for her daughter’s baby doll when she was ill in bed with emphysema or other health problems.

In 1976, she died suddenly of a heart attack at age 69.

Joseph Shuman retired from the Post-Gazette in 1973 as managing editor and died of heart failure in 1988. Their son, Joseph, died in 2017. Some of the Phillips cousins continue to live in the Pittsburgh area.

Laura Malt Schneiderman: lschneiderman@post-gazette.com.

Read more here [[ https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/01/08/Anna-Jane-Phillips-Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette-reporter-serial-novel-Murder-of-Convenience-Shuman/stories/202101050130]]

First Published January 8, 2021, 12:00am

Goettler Paul

2020-12-03T18:35:33Z

Jrudiak:

"Paul Goettler, 88, attended Carrick High School, but in 1943, when he expected to graduate, he joined the Army, serving in the 88th Infantry Division stationed in Italy. Operation Recognition permits school districts to award diplomas to any honorably discharged veteran who served in the U.S. military during World War II, Korean Conflict or the Vietnam War."

==[http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2013/06/26/Two-men-ages-96-and-88-receive-diplomas-from-Pittsburgh-Public-Schools/stories/201306260208#ixzz30U6Afsit Read more here]==

== [http://www.senatorcosta.com/enews/2013_12_17_Holiday.htm Read about Paul's special citation here] ==

==Historical society gives voice to lives of regular folks==
July 5, 2014 12:10 AM

==[https://youtu.be/d8T5WDcDDsg] Click for video Oral history project: John Rudiak interviews Paul Goettler ==

By Diana Nelson Jones / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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[[File:Goettler 4.jpg]] Left to Right Paul Goettler, John Rudiak, and Chuck Christ

'''Photos by Robin Rombach/Post-Gazette'''

Paul "Moke" Goettler was a grunt in the infantry during World War II and says he probably survived several close calls because he was so skinny. Honorably discharged, he returned to Carrick in November 1945, a 21-year-old who would go on to work hard for little money and raise six children in a three-bedroom house with a wife he has outlived for eight years.

He turned 90 Wednesday, still skinny, with a booming voice, keen eyesight and savant-like memory. Now his story is preserved for posterity, the first oral history of the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society.

John Rudiak, a founder of the society, initiated the project to preserve something of the lives of people who remain grunts through life, who work hard, collectively carry the bulk of the load and don't have famous pall bearers.

John Rudiak interviews Paul Goettler to initiate the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society's oral history project, with video by Chuck Christ. The society will begin outreach to add to its oral history archive. (7/5/2014)

Videographer Chuck Christ, owner of Memory Maker, a video and editing business, is donating his time to the project. .

Mr. Goettler warns that he is "a talking machine" before launching stories with details that are unique but strike a tone of universality.

No one knows him as Paul, he said. When he was 2, his father was looking for his cigarettes, and little Paul ran in with one of them dangling from his mouth. "I said, 'Me moke, me moke.' I'‍ve been Moke ever since."

Mr. Goettler got his first job while in high school, delivering telegrams for Western Union.

"I made $13.60 a week, and my mother got $10" to support her and his stepfather, who had been hit by a car and disabled.

His father had died when the boy was 7. People would go "wildcatting," scratching coal from seams they found, and his father was endeavoring to do that when a shaft caved in on him, burying him alive.

"I don't know why he was digging coal," Mr. Goettler said. "He was a rolling engineer for J&L making $90 a week. That was good money then."

At 18, Mr. Goettler got a job with Oliver Iron and Steel on the South Side then joined the Army a year later. He served in the 88th Infantry Division, the Blue Devils, in Italy.

He brings out memorabilia that fill his dining room table.

"There were two of us from Pittsburgh," he said of his platoon, fingering images on a group photograph. "They called us the Pittsburgh kids, me and Henry Golembiewski of Polish Hill. That'‍s him, and there I am.

"Nobody remembers what happened two days before D-Day, but that was the day we took Rome," he said. "I was in Company C. We had the Germans on the run. I had some close calls, but I won't go into it. I had an angel on my shoulder."

At the end of the war, his company was in northern Italy when they heard people yelling, "La guerra e finita! We looked at each other and said, '‍I guess it'‍s over.'‍ Just like that."

He wasn't home long before a friend named Claire invited him to a corn roast, noting several girls would be there.

"I just looked at one," he said, Marie Lorraine Simon. "Claire asked if I would take [Marie] home afterward, but I didn'‍t have a car so my friend Jimmy drove us. I asked her, '‍Do you go with anyone?'‍ and she said, '‍I'‍m engaged to a sailor.'

"On the way we had a flat tire. Her mother waited up to see all of her kids get home. I met her mother at 1 o'‍clock in the morning. The next day, she called me and said, '‍My mother likes you.' ‍"

He took two streetcars and walked a half mile up a hill to visit Marie, who lived in Elliott. When the sailor came home, Marie returned his ring.

"She said, '‍Hey, Moke, let's get married.' We had nothing. She had a regular pink dress, and I had a regular suit, and I spent $27 for our wedding bands, but we lasted 60 years. I'‍ll be in this house 63 years in November."

He worked in the bottling house at the Duquesne Brewing Co. until the company was dissolved in 1972. Anxious with children to feed, he applied at 50 places, and a supervisor from his previous job called him to work at Iron City Brewery, where he retired in 1987.

All six of his children live in greater Pittsburgh. Marie died of congestive heart failure and requested that she be cremated. Her ashes are in an urn he plans to have placed in his casket when he dies.

Most everyone dies without sustained remembrance, but the historical society will give more elders in Carrick and Overbrook a chance for the stories of their lives to live on.

"All those stories could vanish," Mr. Rudiak said, "yet the achievements of regular people are so important to our city."

Diana Nelson Jones: djones@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1626. Read her blog City Walkabout at www.post-gazette.com/citywalk.

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==Henry W. Caruso==

Age 65, was called home by Our Lord on Thursday, March 16, 2017. Son of the late Alfred and Caroline Caruso, beloved husband of 42 years of Christine (Sawchak) Caruso, loving father to Lori, dear brother of Alfred (Colleen) Caruso; uncle of Amanda and Luke. Though frequently attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo, the origins of the phrase “he who sings prays twice” is a subject for debate. Regardless of the source, it is a perfect expression to describe the lifelong passion for music and deep Catholic faith of Henry Caruso. The proprietor of Caruso’s Music Store and Education Center in Carrick for 33 years and the music director for the Retreat Center at St. Paul of the Cross Monastery on the South Side Slopes for the past 11 years, Mr. Caruso died Thursday of a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma. He was 65. Mr. Caruso’s wife, Christine, believes the near-lifelong resident of Carrick developed his love of music in utero. “He grew up with his mother who had been accepted at Juilliard, but her father wouldn’t let her go,” Mrs. Caruso said. “She was a wonderful pianist, so Henry grew up playing piano and loving opera.” He took piano lessons beginning at age 5 and ultimately studied music at Duquesne University, graduating in 1973. He taught elementary and junior high music in the Gateway School District and Pittsburgh Public Schools, and married Christine Sawchak on Valentine’s Day 1975. Less than four years later, the couple opened their music store and for more than three decades, thousands of Pittsburgh-area children (and adults, too) came through the door and either studied music or got their instruments at Caruso’s. When Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak honored the Carusos with a proclamation after their retirement in 2012, it wasn’t simply a political gesture to a constituent. She was one of those kids. “I took piano lessons [at Caruso’s] there from the third grade through high school,” Ms. Rudiak said. “He was always in the store when I was there and he was really a kind, pious and devout person.” Of the store, Ms. Rudiak said, “It was a gathering place for all ages to enjoy music. It was a great neighborhood business. It was on a block with the pizza shop and the library and it left a hole when it closed down,” she said. “He was such a positive force and he will be sorely, sorely missed.” “He loved the Carrick community,” Mrs. Caruso said, noting his participation in the business association and the litter patrol. He started a band program for St. Basil’s school, and became the organist and choir director for several churches. His deepening faith led him to bring his musical skill to St. Paul’s retreat center, where he composed liturgical music to enhance the retreats. “He had a special talent in the area of music and song,”
said the Rev. Gerald Laba, director of the retreat center. “He shared and directed that gift to praise God and help others to praise and thank God for the blessings we receive.” A friend, Kevin Hayes of Mt. Lebanon, is a regular participant at the retreats. “You never know how you’re going to touch people’s lives,” he said. “Well, 2,500 people make that retreat each year, and they got to know Henry and he touched their lives with his music.” His love of music led him to a lifetime of musical endeavors, receiving his BS from Duquesne University, becoming a music educator, music store owner, band director and organist. He found his true calling as a retreat Music Minister combining his musical gifts with his deep faith. Visitations Sat. 5-8 and Sunday 2-4 & 6-8pm at the Boron Funeral Home, Inc. 1719 Brownsville Rd. Funeral Prayers on Monday at 10:15. Mass of Christian Burial in Holy Apostles Parish at St. Basil Church at 10:30am. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his name to St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center or Holy Apostles Parish.

www.BoronFuneralHome.com

Charitable donations may be made to:
Blessed Trinity Parish
3198 Schieck Street, Pittsburgh PA 15227
Tel: 1-412-884-7744
Web: http://www.blessedtrinitypgh.org

St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center
148 Monastery Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15203

== Obituary: Henry W. Caruso / Music store owner and church retreat music director==

DAN GIGLER
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
dgigler@post-gazette.com

Though frequently attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo, the origins of the phrase “he who sings prays twice” is a subject for debate. Regardless of the source, it is a perfect expression to describe the lifelong passion for music and deep Catholic faith of Henry Caruso.

The proprietor of Caruso’s Music Store and Education Center in Carrick for 33 years and the music director for the Retreat Center at St. Paul of the Cross Monastery on the South Side Slopes for the past 11 years, Mr. Caruso died Thursday of a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma. He was 65.

Mr. Caruso’s wife, Christine, believes the near-lifelong resident of Carrick developed his love of music in utero.

“He grew up with his mother who had been accepted at Juilliard, but her father wouldn’t let her go,” Mrs. Caruso said. “She was a wonderful pianist, so Henry grew up playing piano and loving opera.”

He took piano lessons beginning at age 5 and ultimately studied music at Duquesne University, graduating in 1973. He taught elementary and junior high music in the Gateway School District and Pittsburgh Public Schools and married Christine Sawchak on Valentine’s Day 1975.

Less than four years later, the couple opened their music store and for more than three decades, thousands of Pittsburgh-area children (and adults, too) came through the door and either studied music or got their instruments at Caruso’s.

When Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak honored the Carusos with a proclamation after their retirement in 2012, it wasn’t simply a political gesture to a constituent. She was one of those kids.

“I took piano lessons [at Caruso’s] there from the third grade through high school,” Ms. Rudiak said. “He was always in the store when I was there and he was really a kind, pious and devout person.”

Of the store, Ms. Rudiak said, “It was a gathering place for all ages to enjoy music. It was a great neighborhood business. It was on a block with the pizza shop and the library and it left a hole when it closed down,” she said. “He was such a positive force and he will be sorely, sorely missed.”

“He loved the Carrick community,” Mrs. Caruso said, noting his participation in the business association and the litter patrol.

He started a band program for St. Basil’s school and became the organist and choir director for several churches. His deepening faith led him to bring his musical skill to St. Paul’s retreat center, where he composed liturgical music to enhance the retreats.

“He had a special talent in the area of music and song,” said the Rev. Gerald Laba, director of the retreat center. “He shared and directed that gift to praise God and help others to praise and thank God for the blessings we receive.”

A friend, Kevin Hayes of Mt. Lebanon, is a regular participant at the retreats.

“You never know how you’re going to touch people’s lives,” he said. “Well, 2,500 people make that retreat each year, and they got to know Henry and he touched their lives with his music.”

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Lori Ann, and a brother, Alfred.

Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Saturday and 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Boron Funeral Home, 1719 Brownsville Road. The funeral Mass is at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Basil Church, 1735 Brownsville Road.

Dan Gigler: dgigler@post-gazette.com; Twitter @gigs412

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Benham Jessica

2020-11-27T17:56:43Z

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Jessica Benham is the Democratic State Representative in House District 36 on November 3rd.

A union organizer and community leader, Democrat Jessica Benham has been an advocate for people and neighborhoods across our district. She has fought for and won fair treatment for people with disabilities at the Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy.

Jessica Benham lives in Southside Slopes with her husband, Karl, their two cats, Ravi and Neal, and their dog, Winston.

House District 36 covers parts of the South Side Flats, South Side Slopes, Arlington, Mt.Oliver/St. Clair, Bon Air, Carrick, Overbrook, Mt. Washington, and Brookline city neighborhoods. It also covers Mt. Oliver Borough, Brentwood, and parts of Baldwin Borough.==

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Readshaw, Harry

2020-11-18T18:22:44Z

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== Harry A. Readshaw III ==

Born August 7, 1941 is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 36th District and was elected in 1994. He and his wife live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and have three children. He graduated from Carrick High School in 1959 and attended Duquesne University from 1959 to 1962. He graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science in 1962. Prior to elective office, he served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and in the Carrick Community Council. He has been a funeral director since 1970.

Fink, Jean

2020-09-09T00:16:26Z

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== Frank, informed voice of Jean Fink leaves Pittsburgh school board after 33 years ==

November 29, 2013 9:58 AM

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By Eleanor Chute / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Jean Fink, seen here at her home in Carrick, is leaving the board of the Pittsburgh Public Schools after more than 30 years in office.

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Jean Fink, seen here at her Carrick home with her dog, Tippy, is leaving the board of the Pittsburgh Public Schools after more than 30 years in office.

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Jean Fink on Nov. 4, 2013

When a fellow Pittsburgh Public Schools board member suggested asking some graduates who are successful rappers to promote the district, Jean Fink's retort combined her decades of experience on the board, her status as a great-grandmother and her traditional values.

Noting her years of service, Ms. Fink, who attended her last school board meeting this week, said she was against it.

"When we as educators, start promoting and glorifying young men who preach the coolest thing is to get high on weed, and every other sentence in their songs contains the F-word, I'm sorry. I think it's wrong. I don't think we should be promoting these people," said Ms. Fink, who knew of some of the rappers.

In recent times, Ms. Fink, a resident of Carrick since 1964, didn't necessarily comment as often as she did in her early years when she fought against forced busing for desegregation.

But her voice still provided frank insights and a dose of institutional knowledge.

"Probably over her tenure, she's played many different roles. Her current one is like the elder stateswoman," said Carey Harris, executive director of A+ Schools, an education advocacy group. "She really brings some wisdom to some conversations."

Ms. Fink has served on the board for 33 years.

On Monday, her successor in District 7, Cynthia Falls, will be sworn in. The district includes all or part of Carrick, Overbrook, Bon Air, Knoxville, Mount Oliver, St. Clair, South Side Slopes, South Side Flats, Arlington Heights and Arlington.

None of the four departing board members -- Ms. Fink, Sharene Shealey, Theresa Colaizzi and Floyd "Skip" McCrea -- sought re-election.

"It's just time," said Ms. Fink, the parent of six, grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of four.

"I'm 69 years old. I was 31 the first time I ran. The issues are a lot different. The school district is a lot different," she said.

Ms. Fink is the only board member who goes back to the first days of an elected school board -- something she fought for and joined when it began in 1976.

Previously, the board was appointed, which she said resulted in a disproportionate share of members from the East End and a lack of members who knew their neighborhoods.

Louise Brennen, superintendent from 1992 to 1997, said representing her community was important to Ms. Fink, but "she still maintained a global perspective of what decisions she had to make in the best interests of the school district as a whole."

Ms. Fink has been on the board every year since 1976 except for a four-year term after she lost the 1993 election, which she blames on a vote to increase taxes because the state had changed the funding of special education.

"We needed that to give the proper services to the kids," she said.

Before joining the board, Ms. Fink was an active parent, including helping to form a part of a human chain across Route 51 to win safety improvements for Overbrook students.

Then, as now, Ms. Fink supported neighborhood schools.

"Why should we have money for busing when we don't have money for reading?" she asked in 1972.

As a board member, early desegregation plans she favored didn't go far enough to pass legal muster, but, in 1982, realizing the district was losing in the courts, she voted for the desegregation plan. That plan included some magnet schools -- which have specialized programs to attract students. "At least you could give people choices," she said.

Ms. Fink said today she still doesn't understand the point of forced busing.

A graduate of the now-closed South Hills High School, Ms. Fink grew up in Beltzhoover, a neighborhood that she said was racially mixed at the time.

"We all played together after school. We went to the movies together. We rode our bikes together. We roller-skated together. We were all friends because we were all neighbors.

"If you had kids bused, it was an artificial situation. These were not kids you hung out with on Saturday afternoon. You couldn't get there. It didn't make any sense to me."

Today, city school district enrollment -- 24,525 in K-12 -- is less than half of when Ms. Fink joined the board.

"I never saw that coming," said Ms. Fink, who recounted how students went to Carrick High School in five shifts when she joined the board. Carrick now has more capacity than students.

Noting parochial schools also have faced enrollment declines in the city, she said families are having fewer children, some families have left the city and charter schools have attracted students.

The fight for neighborhood schools today is a different one, with the district having too much space for too few students.

Yet while she thinks parents are more concerned about education quality and safety than they used to be, she thinks the public still wants neighborhood schools.

"I don't think they're gone. In some areas of the city, people do expect to have a neighborhood school, and the South Hills is one of them," she said.

Ms. Fink has been through multiple school closing plans and the board, after her departure, is likely to face others.

Asked whether any school closings were a mistake, she said, "If it was in your neighborhood, it was always a mistake."

For years, Ms. Fink tried to save tiny Bon Air School, at one point succeeding in getting it reopened in 2002 after it was closed in 2001.

However, Mark Roosevelt, who was superintendent from 2005 to 2010, won support to close Bon Air as an elementary school in 2006 although it was used as an early childhood center afterward.

Mr. Roosevelt had called her to his office to explain the economics.

"He made me understand. I wasn't happy," she said.

Mr. Roosevelt said, "I found Jean quite reasonable and willing to listen, but she was also tough when she felt something she valued or felt she needed to protect was at stake."

With school closings come changes in assigned feeder patterns. In one case, Ms. Fink noticed that a few streets in Knoxville had been erroneously redistricted to a school different than the surrounding streets.

When she went to see that it was corrected, she said she and then-superintendent John Thompson got into a shouting match in the stairwell of board headquarters. She said Mr. Thompson -- about a foot taller than Ms. Fink -- leaned into her face, and she was beet red in anger.

Ms. Fink once had hoped for a new vo-tech school in Oak Hill, between Oakland and the Hill District, but now views such an expense as impossible.

Nevertheless, she is encouraged by the growth in some career and technical education programs, including the return of carpentry at Carrick High School and Westinghouse 6-12 this school year.

"We're finally starting to value that again," she said. "Not every kid is going to college."

Ms. Fink was board president for one year, December 2001 to December 2002, when board meetings were so acrimonious that foundations temporarily withdrew support.

In one closed-door school board meeting in 2002, Ms. Fink, frustrated with a fellow board member, said, "Should I dump this water on your head to get your attention?"

Reflecting on that recently, she said, "It was just difficult to deal with the people I was dealing with."

Former school board member Randall Taylor, who was the object of the water remark, said he remembers it "fondly," adding, "I also looked at it as a time when board members did debate and had disagreements and weren't rubber-stamping things."

Over the years, she forged strong friendships with some board members, including former school board member Darlene Harris, now Pittsburgh City Council president, and Ms. Colaizzi.

"If there was a problem at one of her schools, she was there on the spot," Ms. Harris said. "She had a home phone that was just like an office number. Anyone could get her."

Ms. Colaizzi, who considers Ms. Fink her mentor, said, "I've never seen anybody that is so unselfish and so willing as Jean."

The district in recent years has been awarded $40 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which covers part of the cost of the Empowering Effective Teaching program, aimed at improving teacher quality.

"Although they've given us a lot of money to do a lot of things through the Empowering Effective Teachers, I don't know if the money that we've had to put out is making it worth it.

"There's a lot of good things that come from trying to do things differently, trying to beef up teachers' skills, but in the end, I have to ask myself, 'What is the long-range value going to be?' "

She has seen the pendulum of education swing back and forth.

She opposed particular swings of that pendulum, such as Everyday Math, which she thought was "stupid" but was revised over the years, and the Initial Teaching Alphabet, a confusing alternative alphabet used to teach reading when her oldest daughter was in school, which she called "the stupidest program I ever saw."

"It's constant change. You've got what you know in your heart as a teacher is tried and true and works, but then the next big thing comes along, so you're going to try something else," she said.

Over the years, she has also seen many forecasted deficits.

"It's like snow comes in January," she said.

In 2000, Ms. Fink and Ms. Harris would meet weekend mornings at Ms. Harris' house, calling department heads to find out ways to trim the budget. They came up with what was dubbed the "housewife's special," which suggested $38.5 million in cuts. It wasn't adopted.

Ms. Fink sees the current deficit -- the district expects to go broke in 2016 unless it changes course -- as different.

"Our resources are going to be depleted," she said. "We don't have the resources from the state we used to have. It's just a different world. We can't raise taxes like we used to."

Ms. Fink has been criticized for the fact that family members were employed by the district, among them her husband, Fred, who was a carpenter for 25 years. Her son Fred III is the head mechanic for the district and son Michael is a custodian.

"They applied like anybody else. There's no reason they shouldn't work here," she said.

She remained on the board through personal tragedies as well. Her youngest son, Matt, who was born after she joined the board and attended meetings in a bassinet, died at the age of 22 in 2004; her husband of 45 years died in 2007; and her mother died in between.

Being on the board, she said, "probably kept me grounded. It was a horrible thing, but [the board] gave me something else to think about."

Ms. Fink is an accomplished seamstress, having made wedding gowns, prom gowns and Steelers jackets for a variety of family members. She and her family used to have a catering business, making roast beef, rigatoni, stuffed cabbage rolls -- what she described as "Pittsburgh wedding food."

Her final board meeting Tuesday night lasted about four hours, and she left shortly before 11 p.m., not long before the contentious meeting was over.

"That's probably the worst meeting I've had in 10 years," she said.

"You make your point and you shut up. That's common sense."

At the meeting, in her brief parting remarks to the board, Ms. Fink said, "I made some good decisions. I probably made some bad decisions, but I always did it because I really ... love the kids. I love the school system.

"I just hope that in the future decisions need to be made with care and kindness."

Eleanor Chute: echute@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1955.

== '''Obituary: Jean Fink | She loved the kids -- and fought for them '''==
Post-Gazette
Oct. 16, 1944 -- Sept. 1, 2020
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BY JANICE CROMPTON
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
jcrompton@post-gazette.com
SEP 6, 2020 6:30 AM
A member of the Pittsburgh Public Schools board for more than three decades and a lifelong advocate for neighborhood schools, Jean Fink took on the unpaid — and largely thankless — job for the love of children.

“I made some good decisions. I probably made some bad decisions, but I always did it because I really ... love the kids. I love the school system,” Mrs. Fink said at her last board meeting in November 2013.

“Jean was a wonderful person and a very honest person who would do anything for her district and the city,” said her friend and former school board colleague Darlene Harris. “Whatever she could do to help somebody, she was there.”

Mrs. Fink, 75, of Carrick, died of heart failure on Tuesday.

Her tenure on the school board was all the more remarkable because Mrs. Fink, nee Neuman, quit South Hills High School in 11th grade to marry her sweetheart, Fred W. Fink Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Fink married in June 1962. Mr. Fink died in 2007.

“I think she fell in love with the Harley first,” said her daughter Joanne Einloth, of Carrick, laughing at the memory of her parents astride her father’s Harley-Davidson motorcycles over the years. “When she met my dad she was done with school. She wanted to get married and have kids, but you would have never known that she didn’t finish high school or go to college by talking to her. She was very smart.”

After her fourth child was born, the 22-year-old Mrs. Fink obtained her GED.

Mrs. Fink became active in her community as a volunteer at the non-profit Carrick Community Council and as one of the founders of the annual Halloween parade and Corn Fest in Carrick.

When her children were growing up, Mrs. Fink spent countless hours behind the concession stand at Volunteers Park.

“She got all of us kids into sports and every mom had to do their duty at the concession stand. Between all of us, I think she was there 12 years,” her daughter said. “She was very, very involved in the community. It seemed like every little thing that went on, she knew about it or organized it.”

A talented seamstress and thrifty economizer, Mrs. Fink knew how to stretch a buck — an essential skill for a mother of six.

“Mom made a lot of our clothes,” her daughter said. “She even made us winter coats one year. She sewed wedding and prom dresses and costumes. And she took over our yard with her beautiful garden. She would can everything so we could eat all winter. She made pickles and sauerkraut and spent two days every year canning tomatoes. She even grew the dill for the pickles.”

Mrs. Fink employed her baking and cooking skills as a caterer for family and friends, once catering a wedding with 250 guests.

As a member of the Overbrook Elementary School PTA, Mrs. Fink worried about students safely crossing busy Route 51 on their way to and from school.

“She and other parents made a human chain across Rt. 51” to get the attention of local officials, her daughter said.

She lobbied the school board for help and in 1972 convinced them to visit the school and walk the same route as the kids did. Improvements were made.

By 1976, she was among the first group of PPS board members to be elected rather than appointed to the school board. She served continuously until her retirement in 2013, except for the years between 1993 and 1997 — the only time she lost reelection.

“She wanted an elected school board and fought for it and got it,” her daughter said.

But, the road wasn’t always easy.

In the 1970s, she supported integration but not the forced busing of students, and anytime a neighborhood school closed, she took it to heart.

“I believe in neighborhood schools, period, not just in my neighborhood,” she said in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in December 2001.

But the job could be frustrating over her 33 years on the board, including two years as president.

There was the time she got into a red-faced shouting match with former Superintendent John Thompson in a stairwell, or when she was overheard threatening to dump water onto the head of fellow board member Randall Taylor to get his attention — though Mr. Taylor was quick to forgive the remark and later said he remembered it “fondly,” as a time when board members debated and fought for issues important to them.

“She was a great person and a great advocate,” recalled Ms. Harris, who later went on to be elected to Pittsburgh City Council. “I can’t tell you how much fun she was.”

The two traveled to conferences together and even spent weekend mornings poring over budget figures to find funding to keep neighborhood schools open in 2000 as part of an initiative they called the “Housewife's Special.”

“We were calling department heads and directors, asking them what they could live without and we came up with $35 million,” she said. “A couple of board members thought it was just ridiculous, but they had no idea how much time we spent on it.”

“She would go out for meetings that lasted anywhere from one hour to six hours and she still came home and made dinner and made sure the house was running,” her daughter said. “She was amazing.”

A good example of her mother’s devotion came during the first month of the school year when she inevitably would be slammed with endless calls from angry parents over transportation problems, her daughter said.

“The phone would be ringing constantly and every call was about a bus,” she said. “She would work to help reorganize and reroute schedules. Not everybody liked her, but she handled everything with grace. She would have done anything for the district and for the kids.”

In more recent years, Mrs. Fink was devoted to her grandchildren and loved living with her son Fred “Buddy” Fink III and his wife Debbie, where she was treated like a member of the royal family, her daughter said.

Two of her granddaughters found a special way to memorialize Mrs. Fink, who had a longstanding practice of sending birthday cards with money and a lottery ticket inside.

“She always signed everything with ‘Love, Gram,’ so they got that tattooed on their hands,” her daughter said. “She was just a very giving person and we will miss her.”

Along with her daughter and son, Mrs. Fink is survived by her other children Susan Scherba, of Baldwin; Peggy Tice, of Carrick; Michael Fink, of Carrick; 9 grandchildren; and 6 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son Matthew Fink.

Her funeral was Saturday.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Animal Rescue League at 6926 Hamilton Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15208 or humaneanimalrescue.org.

Janice Crompton: jcrompton@post-gazette.com.

First Published September 6, 2020, 6:30am

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CARRICK HISTORY

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== Questions or inquiries can be directed to carrickhistory@gmail.com ==

*If you are new to the Carrick Overbrook History web site and wish to be a contributor, as a courtesy please contact carrickhistory@gmail.com. We would like to meet with you to discuss our web site and instruct you on how to contribute photos, files or information.

== [[Current events]] ==

*[http://wiki.carrick-overbrook.org/Current_events Current Community Events]

== Our Name: ==

*[[Carrick-on-Suir]] – Carrick Post Office was named after this Irish City of Dr. John O’Brien who had the honor of naming the first post office in this area of Baldwin Township in 1853. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_on_Suir Wikipedia Carrick-on-Suir]

*[[Carrick Swan and Rock]] – official emblem of Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. Rock because in Gaelic Carrick means Rock and swans because it is located on the River Suir which has many swans.

== Articles, Booklets, Photos and Notes about Carrick ==

*[[Articles about Carrick]] - Compilation of newspaper articles and research papers about Carrick Borough and the Carrick Neighborhood.

*[[Brownsville Road]] - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1900 story

*[[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] - in an effort to improve the image of Brownsville Road artists are painting panels attach to storefront windows.
**[[Art project spruces up Carrick]] - "A Pittsburgh Leader article from 1904 reporting on the status of Carrick stated that "if nine out of 10 Pittsburgers were asked where Carrick is they could not answer. If asked to describe the place they would be equally at sea."

*[[Carrick's 2011 Dump Clean Up]] - Spring of 2011 Dump Cleanup, April 9, 2010

*[[Carrick Park 1914 Letter]]

*[[Carrick Park 1917 Description]]

*[[Carrick's Borough's 10th Anniversary]] - 1914 Booklet

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] - 1906 dedication Booklet.

*[[Carrick Community Council Response to 2012 Crime Statistics]]

*[[Carrick High School Reunion Dedication to WWII Veterans]]

*[[Carrick's History in Street Signs]] - This is a youtube presentation of our history by interpreting street names.

*[[Carrick Profile 1970]] - CARRICK – 1970 A COMMUNITY PROFILE Prepared by The Department of City Planning, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1974

*[[Carrick Walk About]] - Article that appeared in the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post Gazette] by Diana Nelson Jones on March 28, 2009.

* Concord Elementary School Articles
**[[Concord Elementary Coats for Kids]] - Article about Concord Elementary Parents and kids, February, 2010.
** [[History Lesson at Concord School]] - Article about a history lesson regarding [[John M. Phillips]] by John Rudiak and Julia Tomasic.
** [[Concord students complete first ‘Reach for the Stars’ challenge]] - Article about Concord Elementary School Achievements

*[[Coal mines]] - A collection of stories and facts regarding our underground.

*[[Depression Life]] - Article from the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] about life in the depression by Carrick native [[Emily Pritchard Cary]].

*[[Early Carrick History]] - A letter to Harriet Duff Phillips from a Mr. Bennett who talks about very eary Carrick History. There is no date on this letter.

*[[Fire at the Boron Gas Station]] - A short story told by Nick Markowitz

*[[Ghost Stories]] - Stories of the ghosts and spirits of Carrick

*[[Bandi, Harry]] - article about Harry Bandi's flower

*[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[The Hornaday Road Report]] - by Joe Krynock. Joe explains how the Hornaday Road project started and how the History Society was started.

*[[Hornaday Road Welcome]] - Article about Hornaday Road residents welcoming veteran Army 1st Lt. Bob Muessner back from his tour in Iraq.

*[[History of Carrick Borough]] - This speech, documented on March 22,1927, probably the best speeches delivered in [[Carrick High School]], was made on February 3, 1927, by Beatrice Evans who graduated on that night.

*[[Historical Marker Applications]] and [[John M. Phillips Marker Dedication]] - The Society has applied for two [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2539&&SortOrder=200&level=2&parentCommID=1586&menuLevel=Level_2&mode=2 Pennsylvania Historical Markers] for [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. These are the applications and the subsequent dedication.

*[[Horse and Wagon Registrations]] - Photos and Articles of Horse and Cart Registrations

*[[Maytide Street]] - Photo of Maytide near Brownsville Road

*[[Neighborhood Authors]] - An ongoing compilation of neighborhood writers who have seen their works in print.

*[[Open the Door to the Hilltop]] – John M. Phillips’ slogan to widen 18th Street and pave it.

*[[Photos of our Beautiful Neighborhood]] - Post your favorite photos of our neigborhood here.

*[[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]] - One of the most quoted newspaper articles about Carrick Borough written in 1904.

*[[Recollections]] - Stories and recollections from residents and former residents about life in the South Hills.

*[[Six-burgh Reasons Why I love Pittsburgh]] - Two residents of Carrick, Robert C. Meussner, Sr. and Brandon William Skalniak won the contest held in the summer of 2009.

*[[South Side Iron, Steel and Glass and the connection to Carrick and Overbrook]] - Research by Joe Krynock

*[[Snow Storm February 2010]] - Articles and Photos of the snow storm February, 2010.

*[[Street Names]] - This was a presentation to students at Pittsburgh Carmalt Elementary School in Brookline by [[John J. Rudiak]]

*[[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

*[[WWII Articles]] - A collection of articles which appeared in newspapers about the men and women serving in the war.

*[[Zebra, Robert, et. al. v School District of the City of Pittsburgh]] - Brief for Robert Zebra, et al., Appellees

== Buildings and Homes ==

*[[1425 Brownsville Road]] [[Wigman House]] - This is our Crown Jewel Victorian

*[[145 Madeline Street]] - Home of [[Emily Pritchard Cary]]

*[[1726 Brownsville Road]] - Home of [[John J. Flemming]]

*[[2449 Valera Street]] - Home of [[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']]

*[[2920 Brownsville Road]]-Home of Robert F. Phillips torn down for a food store building.

*[[2724 Churchview Avenue]] - See [[Thomas Sankey Mansion]]

*[[Carrick Building and Loan Association]] - No longer in existence - "ghost sign" discovered.

*[[Carrick Log Cabin]] - Located at Brownsville Road across the street from Overbrook Blvd

*[[Carrick Post Office]] - This photo may be the Carrick, Pennsylvania US Post Office.

*[[Pittsburgh Register of Historical Places - Carrick]] - Individual significant buildings, structures and sites in Carrick.
**[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[House Moving]] - Photos of the moving of Fallert's house moving operation at Brownsville Road and Laughlin Avenue.

*[[Impton]] - The home of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]

*[[Thomas Sankey Mansion]] - 2724 Churchview Avenue

== Businesses ==

*[[A & P Store]] – First in now the old Isaly’s, then moved to a small room near Brentwood Bank, maybe in 1933, where the Melrose Theater was built.

*Bud's Place [[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[Burns hardware]] - Located in the "new" Carrick Shopping Center it still had the old time "we have everything you need" hardware store feel.

*[[Boron Funeral Home]] - First started as [[Koontz Funeral Home]].

*[[Carrick Brazing and Welding]] - Charles Horne in 1945 opened Carrick Brazing and Welding at 221 Madeline Avenue. He moved to the current location of 401 Nobles Lane in 1946.

*[[Carrick Shopping Center]] - formerly the site of Semmelrock Funeral Home and family home which were demolished to build the center. Shopping center was built in the 1950.

*[[Caruso’s Music Store]] - One of Carrick's oldest businesses and possible site of a Carrick Post Office.

*[[Colteryahn's Dairy]] - The oldest dairy still operating the City of Pittsburgh is located right here in Carrick.
**[[Dairy District Planning Session]] - photos and tour of Colteryahn and the Dairy District planning sessions

*[[Cost Cutters]] - Established 1985 in the Carrick Shopping Center

*[[Dudt’s Bakery]] – located at Belplain Avenue and 2552 Brownsville Road. Highly rated throughout the South Hills. Cameron Dudt owner.

*[[Emmerich’s Confectionery]] - 1808 Brownsville Road

*[[Esso Station]] – Located at Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue.

*[[Giant Eagle]] - Formerly the home of [[Robert Phillips]] the Giant Eagle was built in the 1960s and then abandoned due to a move to Brentwood Towne Centre. Proposed home to Senior Housing in 2013.

*[[Haszalbart's Hardware]] - Located at Craillo Avenue and Brownsville Road

*[[Heinauer Pharmacy]] - owned by Harry Bande

*[[Kraus' Carrick Isaly's]] - Business owned by Councilman Bruce Kraus' Family.

*[[Landefeld Dry Goods Store]] – Across from Melrose was Brentwood Bank.

*[[Lennix Gulf Station]] – was also a trolley barn later on and the end of the line until line extended to the current Bank site and bus turn around.

*[[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - Currently Bud's Place 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[McGinnnis Sisters]] - McGinniss Sisters first store was a Mobil Gas Station at the corner of Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Movie theater on [[Brownsville Road]] across the street from Sankey Avenue. Currently an office building.

*[[Mr. Erny’s]] – Home and Funeral Home built in 1928 across from Raleigh Square.

*[[Readshaw Funeral Home]] - Located in the 1500 block of Brownsville Road

*[[Shell Gas Station]] – now [[Lennox Gulf]]

*[[Shemmelrock Funeral Home]] – Funeral Home in Carrick at current site of Carrick Shopping Center.

*[[Schran's Market]] - Located directly across from [[Hornaday Road]] and Brownville Road.

*[[Superior Fur Company]] - Located at 434 Brownsville Road.

*[[Stanley’s Parlors]] – Bowling lanes and apartments.

*[[Storch’s Electric Marble and Granite Works]] – at what is now the Dairy Queen Property.

*[[Urben's Drug Store]] - At the corner of Church (currently Churchview) Avenue and Brownsville Road in 1925.

*[[Valdiserri’s Fruit Market]] – across from Zimmerman Cemetery closes 1932.

*[[Yago’s Hardware]] – Located next to current [[Carrick Hardware]].

== Cemeteries ==

'''We recently were informed about a web site titled [http://www.findagrave.com/ FindAGrave.com]. This web site has information about our cemeteries and by joining their site you can add photos and information too.'''

*[[Beth Abraham Cemetery]] - Jewish cemetery which borders Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Birmingham Cemetery]] - (a/k/a Zimmerman Cemetery, a/k/a Lorch's Cemetery, a/k/a German United Protestant Evangelical Cemetery), 2511 Brownsville Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery]] – Located at 1907 Brownsville Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15210-4201. Among other famous Carrick residents it was also the burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and namesake of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[St. Adalbert]] - Predominently Polish Catholic Cemetery, the parent church is located in the South Side of Pittsburgh on South 15th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203

*[[St. George]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[St. Joseph]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[South Side Cemetery]] - 1404 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. This is a non demoninational cemetery located in the heart of Carrick. Many of the area's most influential individuals have made this their final resting place. Reference is made to this cemetery in this article [[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]].

*[[St. Wendelin Cemetery]] - Located surrounding the [[St. Wendelin Church]] on the border with Baldwin Borough at St Wendelin's Catholic Church, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227-2199

== Facts ==

*[[British Columbia Connection]] – Mountain named after John M. Phillips

*Carrick’s Acreage – size in acres of Carrick in 1927 -1,015

*[[Carrick First]] – First Borough to lay all streets on a six inch base. As a result there is still little need for repairs on these streets.First sanitary sewer system in Western Pennsylvania

*[[June 21, 1904]] – Carrick becomes a borough.

== Holidays ==

*[[Bird Day]]-created in the late 1800s to teach children about nature and to promote bird in the neighborhoods.

*[[Churchview Avenue Picnic photo]] - Hess Farm 1916

*[[Carrick Cornfest]] - an annual event in Carrick started in the late 1970s
**[[2010 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2010 Cornfest
**[[2011 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2011 Cornfest
**[[2012 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2012 Cornfest
**[[2013 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2013 Cornfest

*[[Picnic Day Photo]] - Photo of a neighborhood picnic in 1913 Lacona Street and Laughlin Street Ext. The area was called Heideis Hollow.

*[[Tree Day]] - Arbor Day in Carrick see [[John M. Phillips]]

== [[Homes]] ==

*[[Harry Englert House]] - Hornaday Road

*[[Wigman House]] - 1725 Brownsville Road. Our 'Crown Jewel' of Carrick and our first historic house designated by the City of Pittsburgh.

*[[Winter Homes]] - 2314 and 2316 Brownsville Road. Duplex sister homes built by Barbara and Alois Winter. This is our first designated Historic District.

== Houses of Worship ==

*[[Advent Historic Church Walk]] - December 11, 2011, First Annual Historic Church Walk

*[[Birmingham United Church of Christ]] - 25 Carrick Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church]] – 1907 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831. First church building built in 1832. Burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and nameske of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses]] - 2401 Raven St, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 1628 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Passionist Convent]] – Erected in 1910 and was one of the first of its kind in America.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[St. Pius X Byzantine Catholic Church]] - Byzantine Catholic, 2336 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, Built on the site of John M. and Harriet Duff Phillips home of [[Impton]].

*[[Saint Wendelins Catholic Church]] - Roman Catholic, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Spencer United Methodist Church]] -

*[[Stewart Avenue Evangelical Lutheran Church]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 2810 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Zion Christian Church]]- 98 Hornaday Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, formerly the Union Baptist Church

== Landmarks ==

*[[Agnew Glass Works]] – Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and current E. Agnew Avenue.

*[[Alpha Sign Company]] – first company to install billboards on Brownsville Road in Carrick. Signs called eyesores even at that time.

*[[Brownsville Plank Road]] – known by that name because of the 4’ plank road for clean riding and maintained by tolls.

*[[Brownsville Road]] – At one time was an Indian Trail was also known as Brownsville Pittsburgh Toll Road, Brownsville Plank Road, Southern Avenue and Brownsville Road. The road had at one time three toll booths, was a mud rutted road impassible in spring and fall, used by farmers to transport livestock to Pittsburgh and was a stagecoach route to Brownsville PA. John M. Phillips was called Boardwalk John because of his effort to plank Brownville Road and widened the road to its current width.

*[[Brownsville Road]] names – Southern Avenue, Brownsville Plank Road, Birmingham and Brownsville Macadamized Turnpike Road, Brownsville Avenue.

*[[Bucks Tavern]] – A toll booth, hotel and tavern for travelers using Brownsville Road to Brownville. Currently the Italian Club. Built in 1818, burned in 1853.

*[[Carrick Avenue Wooden Footbridge]] - Wooden footbridge spaning Ravine Street later and currently named Raven Street. Removed in 1953.

*[[Carrick Bank]] – first bank to be organized in the community. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] becomes the first President. Biddle Boys said to have robbed Carrick Bank in their bank robbing spree.

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] – located next to the current [[Caruso’s Music Store]]

*[[Carrick Hotel]] - Also known as the Hotel Carrick and is currently the location of Acapulco Joe's Bar and apartment.

*[[Carrick Library]] – formerly operated by the Fire Company was established in 1930. [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Library Link]

*[[Carrick Literary Society]] - Definitely not to be confused with the current Carrick Literary Club at 210 Copperfield Avenue.

*[[Carrick Mural]] - Currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]]. Once the site of [[Agnew Glass Works]] and [[Werner Moving and Storage Company]].

*[[Carrick Post Office]] – First government post office in Baldwin Township established in December 23, 1853. Possibly located in later years next to the Carrick Borough offices in what is now [[Caruso’s Music Store]].

*[[Carrick Telephone office]] – Located at Overbrook Boulevard and Brownsville Road. 1904 had 50 subscribers, by 1910 had 300.

*[[Concord Church]] – was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831.

*[[Craillo]] area of Carrick near Concord Church.

*[[Engleartville]] – First name of the Carrick area named after Engleart Glass Company.

*[[Hess Farm]] - Located on Churchview Avenue - photo only

*[[Hornaday Road]] - named after [[William T. Hornaday]] by [[John M. Phillips]]William Hornaday was an environmentalist and naturalist and friend who accompanied John M. Phillips on many excursions to classify animals. Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Impton]] - Mansion's name of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Johnnies Ice Cream Bar]] - 154 Parkfield Street at corner of Spokane Avenue -served thousands of student from Carrick High School.

*[[Keeling Coal Company]] owner of a coal mine on St. Patrick Street in Mt. Oliver. The mine was connected with the South Side by an incline, now the site of South Side Park, that ran from St. Patrick St. to 21st St. The mine continued under Mt. Oliver, crossed a ravine on a 200 yard trestle over Wagner Street, and continued under Carrick near Bruner and Linnview Avenue. It then continued underground to Spiketown, where it emerged again. Coal from the Bausman mine was tranferred to a train pulled by a steam locomotive, and transported through the Keeling mine to the coal incline.

*[[L’Enfant]] [[L'Enfant - Mother's statue]]– Mother and child sculpture currently residing at Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street since 1966. Originally called L’Enfant was donated to the Mother’s House. Won second price in Paris, France. Sculpted by Roger Bloche.

*[[Maytide Street]] - Also check [[Street Names]]. Called Maine Street (also in Overbrook Borough) before Overbrook Borough became and Carrick Borough became part of the City of Pittsburgh

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Sankey Avenue the theater no longer exists but you can see some of the original building behind the new front.

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. This is the location of their first meeting house that was located at the corner of current Spokane and Parkfield Avenues.

*[[Nicholodean]] – Currently the St. Basil’s Credit Union and was the site of Carrick Library.

*[[Parkfield Street]]- Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[Phillips Park]] – named after [[John M. Phillips]] for the many donated trees and swimming pool. Also known as Dilly’s Grove, Southern Park and Carrick Park was originally a Trolley Traction Park with vaudeville acts, roller coasters, merry go rounds and other attractions. Dilly’s Grove was part of the Coffey Estate bought in 1904 for $29,000

*[[Phillips Properties]] - Scattered from Downtown Pittsburgh to the South Side (Birmingham) to Carrick this is a compilation of the Phillips properties by Robert F. Phillips.

*[[Phillips, Robert F.]] home - Home on Brownsville Road demolished for the now vacant Giant Eagle building. See [[Phillips Properties]]

*[[Raleigh Square]] – Once a farm and land taken in 1928 and prior to that year farm was here. The farm was not taken care and fire destroys the 2 story, frame, unpainted house of the farmer who had a wife and 8 children. Sold by the farmer who had 8 children but could no longer make ends meet. Land comprised of an area along Brownsville Road from the Phillips’ residence to Willies (across from Clifton Street to Maytide Street and on back to Phillps’ residence. The land bordered by Biscayne Avenue to around Wysox Avenue to Maytide Street to [[Valera Street]].

*[[Spiketown]] – Comes into existance in 1868. The area around current Volunteer’s Fields. Neighborhood of homes built by miners of the Keeling Coal Company. Said to be called Spiketown because the miners used mine spikes to build their homes. Also said to be named after the Speiker Family whose large family also lived in the area.

*[[Stewart Avenue]] – named after the great Stewart Farm. Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[The Boulevard]] - One of the very first streets in Carrick. Eligible for Historic District.

*[[Toll Stations]] – First toll station was located at Knox Avenue, another at the current Italian Club and a third at current Churchview Road

*[[Traction Park]] – Current Phillips Park becomes a “traction park.” Previously known as Dilly’s Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

*[[Utility covers]] - From Carrick Borough's past this is an assortment of utility covers. Can you find where they all are?

*[[William Wightman’s Land]] – Bought from the Indians for one iron ax by William Wightman. Area from present Parkfield Street to Maytide Street along Brownsville Road then west along Saw Mill Run. Present Verizon telephone building on this land.

*Wilson's Farm - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Valera Street]] - A portion of Valera Street is in an plan called Raleigh Square

== Library ==

*[[Carnegie Library - Carrick]] - 1811 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210 [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Carnegie Library Link]

== Maps ==

*[[Coal Mine Maps]] - A collection of underground coal mine maps under Carrick, Overbrook and the area. Courtesy of Carol Anthony.

*[[Maps]] - A collection of maps, plans and diagrams of Carrick
**[[Street Names]] - Changed street names when Carrick Borough became the 29th Ward of Pittsburgh in 1927
*[[Wilson Warranty Map]] of [[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick
* Additional maps on [http://images.library.pitt.edu/maps/searchpage.html Historic Pittsburgh CLICK HERE]

== War Memorials ==

*[[Missing WWII Memorial]] - photo of Mrs. Mary Quel standing next to the missing WWII war memorial.

*[[St. Basil Church]] - Positioned in front of St. Basil Church

*[[Partial List of War Memorials]]

== Near to Carrick ==
This section is for those historic places near to our neighborhood but not quite Carrick.

*[[18th Street]] - Late in the 19th century many people petitioned the city of Pittsburgh to build a decent road to the Hilltop, as the borough on the mountaintop were refered to then. Here is the location of a few photos of that road.

*[[Becks Run Flood]] - See [[Page's]]

*[[Page's]] - located at the intersection of Beck's Run Road and E. Carson Street Page's Gas Station and Dairy Store has been a fixture on the South Side for over a century. This intersection is on one of the gateway roads to Carrick.

*[[ Ulman-Horne VFW 456]] - Located at Penn Avenue and Hays Avenue in Mt. Oliver

== Organizations ==

*[[Carrick Borough]] - Formed in 1904 and annexed into the City of Pittsburgh in 1927.

*[[Carrick High School Alumni]]- [[Carrick High School]] alumni can visit the web site on this page to get together with former classmates.

*[[Carrick Community Council]] - Formed early in our history the community council is still valuable forum for residents to learn about the events in the neighborhood and find answers to problems and issues. Form more information [[http://www.carrickpa.com/ click here]]

*[[Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society]] - Formed officially in 2008 to document the history and current events of Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Carrick Council of Republican Women]] - photo with article

*[[GBU - German Beneficial Union]] - The GBU, or German Beneficial Union, originally began in Carrick with a great hall and building located at 2500 Brownsville Road. The building is currently an apartment building with 32 units.

*[[Italian Sons and Daughters of America]] - We all know it as their building as the Italian Club, former site of [[Bucks Tavern]].

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]].

*[[Republican Women of Carrick]] - photo with names

*[[Southern Country Club]] - a social club that once existed on Claus Avenue

*[[Totally Against Graffiti]] - an organization started by Melissa Rosenfeld to stamp out Carrick's graffiti.

*[[Tree Tenders]] - Carrick's Tree Tenders are a group of certified tree tenders who meet once per month to trim, mulch and weed our trees.

== People ==

*[[5th Contingent Leaving Carrick to Petersburg, VA April 3, 1918]] - Photo infront of the [[Concord Presbyterian Church]].

*[[Agnew, John]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Agnew, Mary]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Askin, Ralph]] - A physician who practiced in Carrick at 2117 Brownsville Road.

*Bauman, Wm. [[Wm. Bauman]] – First Police Chief

*Bausman, Nicholas [[Nicholas Bausman]] - early settler and landowner in 1818 sells the Carrick area to Noble Calhoun for $5,000.

*[[Benedik Family]] - 6 members of one family in the service.

*[[Bennet, William]] - recollections of Wm. Bennet, age 90

*[[Boardwalk John]] – nickname for [[John M. Phillips]] because he wanted to build a 4’ wide boardwalk from Mt. Oliver to the 3rd. toll gate. He had a vision of a future 60’ Right of Way street and sidewalk and had citizens volunteer to build the street. As a demonstration of what a 60’ Right of Way paved road and sidewalk would look like, [[John M. Phillips]] purchases the property across from his 2236 Brownsville Road home so he could lay sidewalks and widen and pave Brownsville Road.

*[[Beaumont, Jimmy]] - Jimmy Beaumont is the lead singer of Jimmy Beaumont and the [[Skyliners]].

*[[Bernarding Archbishop George E.]] - Missionary to New Guinea beginning in the late 1930s. He also went to St. Basils.

*[[Ball, Gail]] - rolling pin thrower winner article

*[[Brown, Sherry Miller]] - Director of the College of General Studies’ McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success

*Cary, Emily Prichard [[Emily Prichard Cary]] - She was a native of Pittsburgh and now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Emily writes about her life in Carrick.

*Calhoun, Noble [[Noble Calhoun]] - 1842 sells Carrick to William Noble for $17,000

*[[Carrick Centurions]] - A collection of Carrick residents who have reached the century mark birthdays.

*[[Caruso, Henry]] - Carrick business owner of Caruso's Music and music teacher.

*[[Dr. Dapper, Harry R., MD]] - Suddenly murdered in 1928, murder never found.

*Dawida, Audrey [[Audrey Dawida]] - Wife of Michael Dawida and community volunteer. Audrey was active in the neighborhood's history.

*Dawida, Michael [[Michael Dawida]] – State Representative, State Senator, Allegheny County Commissioner

*[[DeLuca, Mark]] - Carrick native and Muay Thai fighter won the Thai Boxing Association-Sanctioning Authority (TBA-SA) Superlightweight World Championship on Saturday Nov. 8, 2008, in Des Moines, Iowa.

* Devlin,Peter A. [[Peter A Devlin]] – one of the area’s first settlers. Log cabin moved to Phillips Park but no one remembers it there. One photo in the old South Hills Record shows it on Walton off Churchview.

*Diehl, Adam [[Adam Diehl]] – First Borough Burgess lived 2338 Brownsville Road.

*[[Donahue, Zysk Linda]] - Carrick Community Council Treasurer and community organizer

*Donely, Wm. McClurg [[William McClurg Donely]] – First Borough Engineer.

*Eld, John [[John Eld]] - grandson of [[John J. Fleming]] once lived on [[Valera Street]]. John provided photos of his house.

*[[Englert, Milton S.]] - One of the original landowners and citizens of Baldwin Township, later Carrick Borough. Legend has it that the Carrick area was once called Englertville because of the glass works owned by the Englerts.

*[[Fisher, Dr. Edward]] - CHS class of 1960

*[[Finch, Walter ]] – First Street Commissioner

*[[Fink, Jean]] - Carrick Community Council President, Board Member and Pittsburgh Public School Board Member

*Fleming, John J. [[John J. Fleming]] – industrialist and inventor who lived in Carrick and worked as the chief engineer of Phillips Mining and Manufacturing Company.

*[[Fragasso Bob]] - Financial Advisor

*[[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']] - World War II winner of Distinguished Service Cross

*[[Goettler Paul]] - Carrick resident and WWII veteran

*[[Guthoerl Kilroy, Irma]] - long time organist at St. Basil Church

*Haupt, J. A. J. [[J. A. J. Haupt]] – Fifth Burgess

*[[Hazlett, Rev. John]] – Pastor [[Concord Presbyterian Church]] in 1872 starts academy for Higher Education at his home, Oak Grove, on Brownsville Road and corner of Stewart Avenue. Academy was the first school south of the Monongahela River to provide secondary education for older boys and girls.

*[[Herman, JoAnn]] - Jo Ann Herman / Fervent guardian of Carrick neighborhood June 18, 1934 - April 9, 2009

*[[Hagerling, Sidney A.]] - Army Distinguished Service Medal Winner

*[[Hodgson, Naomi]] - Retirement notice

*[[Hyman, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School alumni and legendary Jazz singer

*[[Jankowski, Ron and Barringer, William]] - baseball tryout photo

*[[Jones, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School Alumni Sports Walk of Fame Inductee

*[[Jumbo]] – Motorcycle cop in Carrick Borough in the 1920’s

*Lemon, John [[John Lemon]] – First Borough Solicitor

*[[Lewis, Joseph P.]] - First cashier at Carrick Bank which opened in 1913

*[[Lipinski, Walter]] - Veteran and author

*[[Lucarelli, Louis]] - Vietnam Vet returns article and photo

*[[Karas, Joseph M.]] - article by Joseph M. Karas

*[[Kaskey Ray]] - Sculptor

*[[Koontz, Bob]]

*[[Kloss, Shirley]] - Famous violinist

*[[Kraft, Richard]] - History of his life in Carrick

*Markowitz, Nick [[Nick Markowitz]] – early (1976) Carrick Historian who contributed many works, research and authored dozens of article about Carrick.

*[[McCue, Tim]] - Carrick resident and stock car driver article.

*[[Miners]] - A collection of coal miner photos not of Carrick but possibly a representation of how life was in the coal mines for our former residents.

*[[McClure, William]] - one of Carrick Borough's founding members

*[[Morgan, Al]] - Long time Carrick resident who claims Carrick grew up around him.

*[[Mutchler, Russell]] - Fireman retires article

*Noble, William [[William Noble]] - 1855 sells 100 acres for $45,000 and in 1865 sells 100 acres for $106,000. Probable namesake of Noble's Lane.

*Nusser, John [[John Nusser]] – Third Burgess

*O'Brien, Dr. John [[Dr. John O’Brien]] – named the first US Post Office in this area in 1853 after his home town of Carrick-on-Suir.

*[[Phillips, Anna Jane]] - Daughter of Harriet Duff Phillips and John M. Phillips. Married to Joseph Shuman.

*Phillips, John [[John Phillips]] – Owned a mansion that sat in the middle of current [[Hornaday Road]] and owned 12 acres of land that became known as Phillips Manor.

*Phillips, Harriet Duff [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] – Wife of John M. Phillips, daughter of Dr. Duff. 1913 founded Mothers Club. 1916 founded Brashear Settlement. 1934-1938 President of the PA. Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Pioneer of Women's Health Programs, 1956 Phillips Elementary School named after her father and her. South Side Hospital Board of Directors. Board member of Pittsburgh Board of Education.

*[[Phillips, James]] - one of John Phillips' sons. Photo of property holdings.

*Phillips, John M. [[John M. Phillips]] – nephew of [[John Phillips]], PA Game Commissioner, City of Pittsburgh Councilman, creator of Phillips Park, owned mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road named [[Impton]], conservationist, creator of state parks, instrumental in the creation of the Boy Scouts of America earning the title "Chief Silver Tip" by American Indians who taught and knew him. John M. Phillips was also a naturalist, environmentalist, Boy Scout Founder in Pennsylvania, owner of Phillips Mine and Manufacturing Company. In 1924 President Calvin Cooledge named him chair of a national conference on conservation.

*Phillips' Children [[John M. Phillips’ Children]] – 3 daughters Mrs. Anna Jane Phillips Shuman, Mrs. Mary Phillips Lutz, Mrs. Margaret Phillips Chalfont, 2 sons John M. Phillips, Jr. (Whitehall Borough Councilman), James M. Phillips. Also had 13 grandchildren.

*[[Pikelis, Louis]] - article about no mail for his house

*[[Quel Brothers]] - Five brothers who served together in World War II

*[[Rapp, Janet Vogel]] - Female vocalist of the group [[The Skyliners]].

*[[Readshaw, Harry]] - local businessman and PA State Representative

*Rosenfeld, Melissa [[Melissa Rosenfeld]] - Two articles in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describe Melissa Rosenfeld [[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] and [[Art project spruces up Carrick]].

*[[Rudiak, John J.]] - Carrick Community Council President, community organizer, PennDOT Traffic Systems Control Specialist

*[[Rudiak, Natalia A.]] - In 1997 named Carrick High School's Senior of the year. On May 19,2009 Natalia Rudiak becomes the first female City Councilperson to represent District 4 and the first Councilperson from Carrick.

*[[Russell, Robert]] – First Borough Clerk

*[[Sachko, Melody]] - Spelling Bee Champ

*Saits, John [[John Saits]] – First Borough Tax Collector

*Sankey Wm.; Phillips John M.; Benz, Phillip; Hartung, Richard; Dieterle Jacob; Eiler, Henry; Werner,John - [[First Council of Carrick Borough]]

*Sankey, William, Jr. [[William Sankey, Jr.]] – Fourth Burgess

*[[Sankey, Walter]] - Newspaper article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "To Charlotte, with love."

*Schenk, Henry [[Henry Schenk]] – Second Burgess

*[[Seemiller, Danny]] - Danny Seemiller is an American table tennis player. By 1972, he was the number one qualifier on the U.S. World Team. he has won five U.S. Men's Singles Championships (in 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983). He was once ranked #19 in the world.

*[[Scarletelli Family]] - Old photos of the Scarletelli family donated by Bernie Scarletelli

*[[Sexauer, Dr John F.]] - MD Carrick's popular General Practitioner, whose office was above Heinauer's Drug Store on Brownsville Road. Dr Sexauer was the CHS football team doctor in the fifties and sixties. The family resided on Overbrook Blvd, and had 3 children (Sue, Janet, and Jack/John Jr who graduated from CHS in 1960)

*[[Shuty, Betty]] - Local resident

*[[Smithdas, Robert]] - Article about Robert Smithdas

*[[Speicher, Joseph]] – Carrick Historian in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

*[[Sprenkle, Wm. H.]] – President Principal of Schools from 1909

*Stanford, J. S. [[J. S. Stanford]] – First Postmaster of the Carrick Post Office in December 23, 1853

*Stolzenbach, C. H. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] – First President of Carrick Bank

*[[Stolzenbach, A. H.]] - First Borough Treasurer,

*Tepe, Marie Brose [[Marie Brose Tepe]] - Also known as "French Mary"

*[[Trautmann, Albert R.]] - Vietnam veteran article

*Trott, Ellsworth C. [[Ellsworth C. Trott]] – Last Burgess of Carrick Borough 1927.

*[[Urban, Bill]] - Artist

*[[Urbaniak, John]] - Painter

*[[Vooletich Family]] - article describing orthodox dinner at the Vooletich home

*[[Warble Alexandra]] - Carrick High School 2008 Extra Effort Awardee

*[[Warble Family]] - The Warble family is an amazing asset to the Carrick Community

*[[Washburn, Dr Alan]] - distinguished engineer and professor, youngest child of educators Dr Merle and Lois Washburn, (John/Jack and Carolyn were siblings, all 3 were graduates of Carrick HS). The family resided on Almont Street.

*[[Wightman, William]] - One first settlers of Carrick, then St. Clair Township.

*[[Wigman Family]] - Photos and story about the Wigman Family who owned and built the historic [[Wigman House]].

*Wilson, James [[James Wilson]] – First Carrick Borough Post Master

*Wilson, John - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick [[Wilson Warranty Map]]

*[[Windstein, Robert]] - Wins award photo article

*[[Wine, Michelle]] - one of the first recipients of a liver transplant with donations from the community.

*[[Woshner, Michael]] - Carrick Community Volunteer

*[[Wright, Margaret Persosky]] - Young Carrick mother died on Easter Day 1930 after being beaten and molested on the shores of the Allegheny River. Murder never found.

== Schools ==

*[[Desegregation Thesis by William D. Rutherford]] - A desegregation thesis by William D. Rutherford regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools

*[[Carrick High School]]- The first graduating class was in 1926.
**[[Carrick High School 1939 Yearbook]] - Full copy of 1939 Carrick High School yearbook
**[[Carrick High School Twentieth Anniversary Edition 1926-1946]] - A special edition of the school's yearbooks. Especially interesting is the listing in photos and descriptions of those young men who died in the service.
** [[Carrick High School in the News]] - articles regarding Carrick High School.
** [[Carrick High School Sports]] - articles regarding Carrick High School Sports.
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1926-1976]] - newspaper photo and photo of reunion
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1985]] - booklet presented at the reunion
** [[Carrick Alumni]] - 2013 Honors Alumni

*[[Carrick High School Reunion the first 75 years]]
**[[Carrick High School 1920s]]
**[[Carrick High School Started at Quentin Roosevelt School in 1923]]
**[[Carrick High School Opened in 1924]]
**[[Carrick High School 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School 1926 Football Team]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of January 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of June 1926]]
**[[Carrick High School 1927]]
**[[Carrick High School 1928]]
**[[Carrick High School 1929]]
**[[Carrick High School 1930s]]
**[[Carrick High School Reunion Photo 1931-1981]]
**[[Carrick High School graduate sang with Glen Miller]]
**[[Carrick High School 1941]]
**[[Carrick High School Class of 41 Fight Song]]
**[[Carrick High School Last School Board]]
**[[Carrick High School Bill Lawrence '45 Spitfire Band]]
**[[Carrick High School Alma Mater Correction]]
**[[Carrick High School Jim Reiter]]
**[[Carrick High School 54 students died WWII list]]

*[[Concord Elementary School]] – current location is the fifth location. Originally built on the back of Concord Church as one room and became known as Concord. Second location at Brownsville Road and Agnew Avenue, Third location on Agnew Avenue and Dowling. Forth location on Carrick Avenue. Fifth and final location on Brownsville Road and Biscayne Avenue.

** [[Concord Chronicles]] - Concord Chronicles is a newsletter for parents and students of Concord Elementary School.

** [[Concord Elementary School News]] - Articles about events at Concord Elementary School.

*[[First school in Carrick]] – name unknown but reference is made to a school in a house at Brownsville Road and Wynoka Street.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[Roosevelt Elementary School]] - The original was located on [[The Boulevard]] and although rebuilt in the 1950s, it is still an elementary school. The original was named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Roosevelt Quentin Roosevelt] [[Quentin Roosevelt Elementary School]] after President Theodore Roosevelt's son who died in the First World War and was one of the original pilots who were buried in France during the war and remains there.

*[[Union High School]] - The Borough of Knoxville was the location of this high school. It was attended by the Borough of Carrick residents before Carrick High School was built.

== Sports ==

*[[1912 Baseball Team]] - Can you identify these people in this photo?

*[[Bowling]] - Can you identify the places and the people in these photos?

*[[Carrick Community Athletic Association]] - [http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=ccaabaseball Carrick Baseball Link]

*[[Carrick Crackerjacks]]

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Basketball]] - Basketball Team

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Football]] - Football Team

*[[Carrick Girls Softball Champions]]

*[[Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church Baseball Team 1923]] - winner of The Press Carrick Church League Championship of 1923

*[[Goose Goslings]]

*[[Pony League Champions]] - 1953 photo of Carrick's first Pony League Team and Champions

*[[Sports Teams]] - Amateur and Church affiliated teams in Carrick

== Streetcars ==

* [[Carrick Streetcar Ordinance]] - "If a streetcar picked up a fireman on the way to a fire, streetcar was not allowed to stop except to pick up another fireman."

* [[Horse Trolley]] - last run article

* [[Phillips Park Traction Park]] - Current Phillips Park becomes a "traction park." Previously known as Dilly's Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

* [[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

* [[Trolley 59 Carrick]] - Double ended trolley operated in the 1920's during rush hour and turned around on a short track spur at the corner of Brownsville Road and Crailo Street.

* [[Trolley Barns]] - Carrick Shopping Center where the current Foodland is located was a brick trolley barn, demolished in the 1950's and the end of the line at one time.

== Who are you ==

*[[Who are you]] - A collection of photos with no description and need an explanation.

*[[Polish Mill Worker Tag]] - Anyone know John Zaine, Polish mill worker in 1919?

*[[Unknown Tintype Photo]] - unknown location

== Notice ==

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== [[Current events]] ==

*[http://wiki.carrick-overbrook.org/Current_events Current Community Events]

== Our Name: ==

*[[Carrick-on-Suir]] – Carrick Post Office was named after this Irish City of Dr. John O’Brien who had the honor of naming the first post office in this area of Baldwin Township in 1853. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_on_Suir Wikipedia Carrick-on-Suir]

*[[Carrick Swan and Rock]] – official emblem of Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. Rock because in Gaelic Carrick means Rock and swans because it is located on the River Suir which has many swans.

== Articles, Booklets, Photos and Notes about Carrick ==

*[[Articles about Carrick]] - Compilation of newspaper articles and research papers about Carrick Borough and the Carrick Neighborhood.

*[[Brownsville Road]] - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1900 story

*[[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] - in an effort to improve the image of Brownsville Road artists are painting panels attach to storefront windows.
**[[Art project spruces up Carrick]] - "A Pittsburgh Leader article from 1904 reporting on the status of Carrick stated that "if nine out of 10 Pittsburgers were asked where Carrick is they could not answer. If asked to describe the place they would be equally at sea."

*[[Carrick's 2011 Dump Clean Up]] - Spring of 2011 Dump Cleanup, April 9, 2010

*[[Carrick Park 1914 Letter]]

*[[Carrick Park 1917 Description]]

*[[Carrick's Borough's 10th Anniversary]] - 1914 Booklet

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] - 1906 dedication Booklet.

*[[Carrick Community Council Response to 2012 Crime Statistics]]

*[[Carrick High School Reunion Dedication to WWII Veterans]]

*[[Carrick's History in Street Signs]] - This is a youtube presentation of our history by interpreting street names.

*[[Carrick Profile 1970]] - CARRICK – 1970 A COMMUNITY PROFILE Prepared by The Department of City Planning, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1974

*[[Carrick Walk About]] - Article that appeared in the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post Gazette] by Diana Nelson Jones on March 28, 2009.

* Concord Elementary School Articles
**[[Concord Elementary Coats for Kids]] - Article about Concord Elementary Parents and kids, February, 2010.
** [[History Lesson at Concord School]] - Article about a history lesson regarding [[John M. Phillips]] by John Rudiak and Julia Tomasic.
** [[Concord students complete first ‘Reach for the Stars’ challenge]] - Article about Concord Elementary School Achievements

*[[Coal mines]] - A collection of stories and facts regarding our underground.

*[[Depression Life]] - Article from the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] about life in the depression by Carrick native [[Emily Pritchard Cary]].

*[[Early Carrick History]] - A letter to Harriet Duff Phillips from a Mr. Bennett who talks about very eary Carrick History. There is no date on this letter.

*[[Fire at the Boron Gas Station]] - A short story told by Nick Markowitz

*[[Ghost Stories]] - Stories of the ghosts and spirits of Carrick

*[[Bandi, Harry]] - article about Harry Bandi's flower

*[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[The Hornaday Road Report]] - by Joe Krynock. Joe explains how the Hornaday Road project started and how the History Society was started.

*[[Hornaday Road Welcome]] - Article about Hornaday Road residents welcoming veteran Army 1st Lt. Bob Muessner back from his tour in Iraq.

*[[History of Carrick Borough]] - This speech, documented on March 22,1927, probably the best speeches delivered in [[Carrick High School]], was made on February 3, 1927, by Beatrice Evans who graduated on that night.

*[[Historical Marker Applications]] and [[John M. Phillips Marker Dedication]] - The Society has applied for two [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2539&&SortOrder=200&level=2&parentCommID=1586&menuLevel=Level_2&mode=2 Pennsylvania Historical Markers] for [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. These are the applications and the subsequent dedication.

*[[Horse and Wagon Registrations]] - Photos and Articles of Horse and Cart Registrations

*[[Maytide Street]] - Photo of Maytide near Brownsville Road

*[[Neighborhood Authors]] - An ongoing compilation of neighborhood writers who have seen their works in print.

*[[Open the Door to the Hilltop]] – John M. Phillips’ slogan to widen 18th Street and pave it.

*[[Photos of our Beautiful Neighborhood]] - Post your favorite photos of our neigborhood here.

*[[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]] - One of the most quoted newspaper articles about Carrick Borough written in 1904.

*[[Recollections]] - Stories and recollections from residents and former residents about life in the South Hills.

*[[Six-burgh Reasons Why I love Pittsburgh]] - Two residents of Carrick, Robert C. Meussner, Sr. and Brandon William Skalniak won the contest held in the summer of 2009.

*[[South Side Iron, Steel and Glass and the connection to Carrick and Overbrook]] - Research by Joe Krynock

*[[Snow Storm February 2010]] - Articles and Photos of the snow storm February, 2010.

*[[Street Names]] - This was a presentation to students at Pittsburgh Carmalt Elementary School in Brookline by [[John J. Rudiak]]

*[[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

*[[WWII Articles]] - A collection of articles which appeared in newspapers about the men and women serving in the war.

*[[Zebra, Robert, et. al. v School District of the City of Pittsburgh]] - Brief for Robert Zebra, et al., Appellees

== Buildings and Homes ==

*[[1425 Brownsville Road]] [[Wigman House]] - This is our Crown Jewel Victorian

*[[145 Madeline Street]] - Home of [[Emily Pritchard Cary]]

*[[1726 Brownsville Road]] - Home of [[John J. Flemming]]

*[[2449 Valera Street]] - Home of [[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']]

*[[2920 Brownsville Road]]-Home of Robert F. Phillips torn down for a food store building.

*[[2724 Churchview Avenue]] - See [[Thomas Sankey Mansion]]

*[[Carrick Building and Loan Association]] - No longer in existence - "ghost sign" discovered.

*[[Carrick Log Cabin]] - Located at Brownsville Road across the street from Overbrook Blvd

*[[Carrick Post Office]] - This photo may be the Carrick, Pennsylvania US Post Office.

*[[Pittsburgh Register of Historical Places - Carrick]] - Individual significant buildings, structures and sites in Carrick.
**[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[House Moving]] - Photos of the moving of Fallert's house moving operation at Brownsville Road and Laughlin Avenue.

*[[Impton]] - The home of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]

*[[Thomas Sankey Mansion]] - 2724 Churchview Avenue

== Businesses ==

*[[A & P Store]] – First in now the old Isaly’s, then moved to a small room near Brentwood Bank, maybe in 1933, where the Melrose Theater was built.

*Bud's Place [[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[Burns hardware]] - Located in the "new" Carrick Shopping Center it still had the old time "we have everything you need" hardware store feel.

*[[Boron Funeral Home]] - First started as [[Koontz Funeral Home]].

*[[Carrick Brazing and Welding]] - Charles Horne in 1945 opened Carrick Brazing and Welding at 221 Madeline Avenue. He moved to the current location of 401 Nobles Lane in 1946.

*[[Carrick Shopping Center]] - formerly the site of Semmelrock Funeral Home and family home which were demolished to build the center. Shopping center was built in the 1950.

*[[Caruso’s Music Store]] - One of Carrick's oldest businesses and possible site of a Carrick Post Office.

*[[Colteryahn's Dairy]] - The oldest dairy still operating the City of Pittsburgh is located right here in Carrick.
**[[Dairy District Planning Session]] - photos and tour of Colteryahn and the Dairy District planning sessions

*[[Cost Cutters]] - Established 1985 in the Carrick Shopping Center

*[[Dudt’s Bakery]] – located at Belplain Avenue and 2552 Brownsville Road. Highly rated throughout the South Hills. Cameron Dudt owner.

*[[Emmerich’s Confectionery]] - 1808 Brownsville Road

*[[Esso Station]] – Located at Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue.

*[[Giant Eagle]] - Formerly the home of [[Robert Phillips]] the Giant Eagle was built in the 1960s and then abandoned due to a move to Brentwood Towne Centre. Proposed home to Senior Housing in 2013.

*[[Haszalbart's Hardware]] - Located at Craillo Avenue and Brownsville Road

*[[Heinauer Pharmacy]] - owned by Harry Bande

*[[Kraus' Carrick Isaly's]] - Business owned by Councilman Bruce Kraus' Family.

*[[Landefeld Dry Goods Store]] – Across from Melrose was Brentwood Bank.

*[[Lennix Gulf Station]] – was also a trolley barn later on and the end of the line until line extended to the current Bank site and bus turn around.

*[[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - Currently Bud's Place 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[McGinnnis Sisters]] - McGinniss Sisters first store was a Mobil Gas Station at the corner of Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Movie theater on [[Brownsville Road]] across the street from Sankey Avenue. Currently an office building.

*[[Mr. Erny’s]] – Home and Funeral Home built in 1928 across from Raleigh Square.

*[[Readshaw Funeral Home]] - Located in the 1500 block of Brownsville Road

*[[Shell Gas Station]] – now [[Lennox Gulf]]

*[[Shemmelrock Funeral Home]] – Funeral Home in Carrick at current site of Carrick Shopping Center.

*[[Schran's Market]] - Located directly across from [[Hornaday Road]] and Brownville Road.

*[[Superior Fur Company]] - Located at 434 Brownsville Road.

*[[Stanley’s Parlors]] – Bowling lanes and apartments.

*[[Storch’s Electric Marble and Granite Works]] – at what is now the Dairy Queen Property.

*[[Urben's Drug Store]] - At the corner of Church (currently Churchview) Avenue and Brownsville Road in 1925.

*[[Valdiserri’s Fruit Market]] – across from Zimmerman Cemetery closes 1932.

*[[Yago’s Hardware]] – Located next to current [[Carrick Hardware]].

== Cemeteries ==

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*[[Beth Abraham Cemetery]] - Jewish cemetery which borders Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Birmingham Cemetery]] - (a/k/a Zimmerman Cemetery, a/k/a Lorch's Cemetery, a/k/a German United Protestant Evangelical Cemetery), 2511 Brownsville Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery]] – Located at 1907 Brownsville Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15210-4201. Among other famous Carrick residents it was also the burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and namesake of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[St. Adalbert]] - Predominently Polish Catholic Cemetery, the parent church is located in the South Side of Pittsburgh on South 15th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203

*[[St. George]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[St. Joseph]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[South Side Cemetery]] - 1404 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. This is a non demoninational cemetery located in the heart of Carrick. Many of the area's most influential individuals have made this their final resting place. Reference is made to this cemetery in this article [[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]].

*[[St. Wendelin Cemetery]] - Located surrounding the [[St. Wendelin Church]] on the border with Baldwin Borough at St Wendelin's Catholic Church, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227-2199

== Facts ==

*[[British Columbia Connection]] – Mountain named after John M. Phillips

*Carrick’s Acreage – size in acres of Carrick in 1927 -1,015

*[[Carrick First]] – First Borough to lay all streets on a six inch base. As a result there is still little need for repairs on these streets.First sanitary sewer system in Western Pennsylvania

*[[June 21, 1904]] – Carrick becomes a borough.

== Holidays ==

*[[Bird Day]]-created in the late 1800s to teach children about nature and to promote bird in the neighborhoods.

*[[Churchview Avenue Picnic photo]] - Hess Farm 1916

*[[Carrick Cornfest]] - an annual event in Carrick started in the late 1970s
**[[2010 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2010 Cornfest
**[[2011 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2011 Cornfest
**[[2012 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2012 Cornfest
**[[2013 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2013 Cornfest

*[[Picnic Day Photo]] - Photo of a neighborhood picnic in 1913 Lacona Street and Laughlin Street Ext. The area was called Heideis Hollow.

*[[Tree Day]] - Arbor Day in Carrick see [[John M. Phillips]]

== [[Homes]] ==

*[[Harry Englert House]] - Hornaday Road

*[[Wigman House]] - 1725 Brownsville Road. Our 'Crown Jewel' of Carrick and our first historic house designated by the City of Pittsburgh.

*[[Winter Homes]] - 2314 and 2316 Brownsville Road. Duplex sister homes built by Barbara and Alois Winter. This is our first designated Historic District.

== Houses of Worship ==

*[[Advent Historic Church Walk]] - December 11, 2011, First Annual Historic Church Walk

*[[Birmingham United Church of Christ]] - 25 Carrick Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church]] – 1907 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831. First church building built in 1832. Burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and nameske of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses]] - 2401 Raven St, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 1628 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Passionist Convent]] – Erected in 1910 and was one of the first of its kind in America.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[St. Pius X Byzantine Catholic Church]] - Byzantine Catholic, 2336 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, Built on the site of John M. and Harriet Duff Phillips home of [[Impton]].

*[[Saint Wendelins Catholic Church]] - Roman Catholic, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Spencer United Methodist Church]] -

*[[Stewart Avenue Evangelical Lutheran Church]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 2810 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Zion Christian Church]]- 98 Hornaday Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, formerly the Union Baptist Church

== Landmarks ==

*[[Agnew Glass Works]] – Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and current E. Agnew Avenue.

*[[Alpha Sign Company]] – first company to install billboards on Brownsville Road in Carrick. Signs called eyesores even at that time.

*[[Brownsville Plank Road]] – known by that name because of the 4’ plank road for clean riding and maintained by tolls.

*[[Brownsville Road]] – At one time was an Indian Trail was also known as Brownsville Pittsburgh Toll Road, Brownsville Plank Road, Southern Avenue and Brownsville Road. The road had at one time three toll booths, was a mud rutted road impassible in spring and fall, used by farmers to transport livestock to Pittsburgh and was a stagecoach route to Brownsville PA. John M. Phillips was called Boardwalk John because of his effort to plank Brownville Road and widened the road to its current width.

*[[Brownsville Road]] names – Southern Avenue, Brownsville Plank Road, Birmingham and Brownsville Macadamized Turnpike Road, Brownsville Avenue.

*[[Bucks Tavern]] – A toll booth, hotel and tavern for travelers using Brownsville Road to Brownville. Currently the Italian Club. Built in 1818, burned in 1853.

*[[Carrick Avenue Wooden Footbridge]] - Wooden footbridge spaning Ravine Street later and currently named Raven Street. Removed in 1953.

*[[Carrick Bank]] – first bank to be organized in the community. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] becomes the first President. Biddle Boys said to have robbed Carrick Bank in their bank robbing spree.

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] – located next to the current [[Caruso’s Music Store]]

*[[Carrick Hotel]] - Also known as the Hotel Carrick and is currently the location of Acapulco Joe's Bar and apartment.

*[[Carrick Library]] – formerly operated by the Fire Company was established in 1930. [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Library Link]

*[[Carrick Literary Society]] - Definitely not to be confused with the current Carrick Literary Club at 210 Copperfield Avenue.

*[[Carrick Mural]] - Currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]]. Once the site of [[Agnew Glass Works]] and [[Werner Moving and Storage Company]].

*[[Carrick Post Office]] – First government post office in Baldwin Township established in December 23, 1853. Possibly located in later years next to the Carrick Borough offices in what is now [[Caruso’s Music Store]].

*[[Carrick Telephone office]] – Located at Overbrook Boulevard and Brownsville Road. 1904 had 50 subscribers, by 1910 had 300.

*[[Concord Church]] – was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831.

*[[Craillo]] area of Carrick near Concord Church.

*[[Engleartville]] – First name of the Carrick area named after Engleart Glass Company.

*[[Hess Farm]] - Located on Churchview Avenue - photo only

*[[Hornaday Road]] - named after [[William T. Hornaday]] by [[John M. Phillips]]William Hornaday was an environmentalist and naturalist and friend who accompanied John M. Phillips on many excursions to classify animals. Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Impton]] - Mansion's name of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Johnnies Ice Cream Bar]] - 154 Parkfield Street at corner of Spokane Avenue -served thousands of student from Carrick High School.

*[[Keeling Coal Company]] owner of a coal mine on St. Patrick Street in Mt. Oliver. The mine was connected with the South Side by an incline, now the site of South Side Park, that ran from St. Patrick St. to 21st St. The mine continued under Mt. Oliver, crossed a ravine on a 200 yard trestle over Wagner Street, and continued under Carrick near Bruner and Linnview Avenue. It then continued underground to Spiketown, where it emerged again. Coal from the Bausman mine was tranferred to a train pulled by a steam locomotive, and transported through the Keeling mine to the coal incline.

*[[L’Enfant]] [[L'Enfant - Mother's statue]]– Mother and child sculpture currently residing at Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street since 1966. Originally called L’Enfant was donated to the Mother’s House. Won second price in Paris, France. Sculpted by Roger Bloche.

*[[Maytide Street]] - Also check [[Street Names]]. Called Maine Street (also in Overbrook Borough) before Overbrook Borough became and Carrick Borough became part of the City of Pittsburgh

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Sankey Avenue the theater no longer exists but you can see some of the original building behind the new front.

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. This is the location of their first meeting house that was located at the corner of current Spokane and Parkfield Avenues.

*[[Nicholodean]] – Currently the St. Basil’s Credit Union and was the site of Carrick Library.

*[[Parkfield Street]]- Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[Phillips Park]] – named after [[John M. Phillips]] for the many donated trees and swimming pool. Also known as Dilly’s Grove, Southern Park and Carrick Park was originally a Trolley Traction Park with vaudeville acts, roller coasters, merry go rounds and other attractions. Dilly’s Grove was part of the Coffey Estate bought in 1904 for $29,000

*[[Phillips Properties]] - Scattered from Downtown Pittsburgh to the South Side (Birmingham) to Carrick this is a compilation of the Phillips properties by Robert F. Phillips.

*[[Phillips, Robert F.]] home - Home on Brownsville Road demolished for the now vacant Giant Eagle building. See [[Phillips Properties]]

*[[Raleigh Square]] – Once a farm and land taken in 1928 and prior to that year farm was here. The farm was not taken care and fire destroys the 2 story, frame, unpainted house of the farmer who had a wife and 8 children. Sold by the farmer who had 8 children but could no longer make ends meet. Land comprised of an area along Brownsville Road from the Phillips’ residence to Willies (across from Clifton Street to Maytide Street and on back to Phillps’ residence. The land bordered by Biscayne Avenue to around Wysox Avenue to Maytide Street to [[Valera Street]].

*[[Spiketown]] – Comes into existance in 1868. The area around current Volunteer’s Fields. Neighborhood of homes built by miners of the Keeling Coal Company. Said to be called Spiketown because the miners used mine spikes to build their homes. Also said to be named after the Speiker Family whose large family also lived in the area.

*[[Stewart Avenue]] – named after the great Stewart Farm. Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[The Boulevard]] - One of the very first streets in Carrick. Eligible for Historic District.

*[[Toll Stations]] – First toll station was located at Knox Avenue, another at the current Italian Club and a third at current Churchview Road

*[[Traction Park]] – Current Phillips Park becomes a “traction park.” Previously known as Dilly’s Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

*[[Utility covers]] - From Carrick Borough's past this is an assortment of utility covers. Can you find where they all are?

*[[William Wightman’s Land]] – Bought from the Indians for one iron ax by William Wightman. Area from present Parkfield Street to Maytide Street along Brownsville Road then west along Saw Mill Run. Present Verizon telephone building on this land.

*Wilson's Farm - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Valera Street]] - A portion of Valera Street is in an plan called Raleigh Square

== Library ==

*[[Carnegie Library - Carrick]] - 1811 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210 [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Carnegie Library Link]

== Maps ==

*[[Coal Mine Maps]] - A collection of underground coal mine maps under Carrick, Overbrook and the area. Courtesy of Carol Anthony.

*[[Maps]] - A collection of maps, plans and diagrams of Carrick
**[[Street Names]] - Changed street names when Carrick Borough became the 29th Ward of Pittsburgh in 1927
*[[Wilson Warranty Map]] of [[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick
* Additional maps on [http://images.library.pitt.edu/maps/searchpage.html Historic Pittsburgh CLICK HERE]

== War Memorials ==

*[[Missing WWII Memorial]] - photo of Mrs. Mary Quel standing next to the missing WWII war memorial.

*[[St. Basil Church]] - Positioned in front of St. Basil Church

*[[Partial List of War Memorials]]

== Near to Carrick ==
This section is for those historic places near to our neighborhood but not quite Carrick.

*[[18th Street]] - Late in the 19th century many people petitioned the city of Pittsburgh to build a decent road to the Hilltop, as the borough on the mountaintop were refered to then. Here is the location of a few photos of that road.

*[[Becks Run Flood]] - See [[Page's]]

*[[Page's]] - located at the intersection of Beck's Run Road and E. Carson Street Page's Gas Station and Dairy Store has been a fixture on the South Side for over a century. This intersection is on one of the gateway roads to Carrick.

*[[ Ulman-Horne VFW 456]] - Located at Penn Avenue and Hays Avenue in Mt. Oliver

== Organizations ==

*[[Carrick Borough]] - Formed in 1904 and annexed into the City of Pittsburgh in 1927.

*[[Carrick High School Alumni]]- [[Carrick High School]] alumni can visit the web site on this page to get together with former classmates.

*[[Carrick Community Council]] - Formed early in our history the community council is still valuable forum for residents to learn about the events in the neighborhood and find answers to problems and issues. Form more information [[http://www.carrickpa.com/ click here]]

*[[Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society]] - Formed officially in 2008 to document the history and current events of Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Carrick Council of Republican Women]] - photo with article

*[[GBU - German Beneficial Union]] - The GBU, or German Beneficial Union, originally began in Carrick with a great hall and building located at 2500 Brownsville Road. The building is currently an apartment building with 32 units.

*[[Italian Sons and Daughters of America]] - We all know it as their building as the Italian Club, former site of [[Bucks Tavern]].

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]].

*[[Republican Women of Carrick]] - photo with names

*[[Southern Country Club]] - a social club that once existed on Claus Avenue

*[[Totally Against Graffiti]] - an organization started by Melissa Rosenfeld to stamp out Carrick's graffiti.

*[[Tree Tenders]] - Carrick's Tree Tenders are a group of certified tree tenders who meet once per month to trim, mulch and weed our trees.

== People ==

*[[5th Contingent Leaving Carrick to Petersburg, VA April 3, 1918]] - Photo infront of the [[Concord Presbyterian Church]].

*[[Agnew, John]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Agnew, Mary]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Askin, Ralph]] - A physician who practiced in Carrick at 2117 Brownsville Road.

*Bauman, Wm. [[Wm. Bauman]] – First Police Chief

*Bausman, Nicholas [[Nicholas Bausman]] - early settler and landowner in 1818 sells the Carrick area to Noble Calhoun for $5,000.

*[[Benedik Family]] - 6 members of one family in the service.

*[[Bennet, William]] - recollections of Wm. Bennet, age 90

*[[Boardwalk John]] – nickname for [[John M. Phillips]] because he wanted to build a 4’ wide boardwalk from Mt. Oliver to the 3rd. toll gate. He had a vision of a future 60’ Right of Way street and sidewalk and had citizens volunteer to build the street. As a demonstration of what a 60’ Right of Way paved road and sidewalk would look like, [[John M. Phillips]] purchases the property across from his 2236 Brownsville Road home so he could lay sidewalks and widen and pave Brownsville Road.

*[[Beaumont, Jimmy]] - Jimmy Beaumont is the lead singer of Jimmy Beaumont and the [[Skyliners]].

[[Bernarding Archbishop George E.]] - Missionary to New Guinea beginning in the late 1930s. He also went to St. Basils.

*[[Ball, Gail]] - rolling pin thrower winner article

*[[Brown, Sherry Miller]] - Director of the College of General Studies’ McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success

*Cary, Emily Prichard [[Emily Prichard Cary]] - She was a native of Pittsburgh and now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Emily writes about her life in Carrick.

*Calhoun, Noble [[Noble Calhoun]] - 1842 sells Carrick to William Noble for $17,000

*[[Carrick Centurions]] - A collection of Carrick residents who have reached the century mark birthdays.

*[[Caruso, Henry]] - Carrick business owner of Caruso's Music and music teacher.

*[[Dr. Dapper, Harry R., MD]] - Suddenly murdered in 1928, murder never found.

*Dawida, Audrey [[Audrey Dawida]] - Wife of Michael Dawida and community volunteer. Audrey was active in the neighborhood's history.

*Dawida, Michael [[Michael Dawida]] – State Representative, State Senator, Allegheny County Commissioner

*[[DeLuca, Mark]] - Carrick native and Muay Thai fighter won the Thai Boxing Association-Sanctioning Authority (TBA-SA) Superlightweight World Championship on Saturday Nov. 8, 2008, in Des Moines, Iowa.

* Devlin,Peter A. [[Peter A Devlin]] – one of the area’s first settlers. Log cabin moved to Phillips Park but no one remembers it there. One photo in the old South Hills Record shows it on Walton off Churchview.

*Diehl, Adam [[Adam Diehl]] – First Borough Burgess lived 2338 Brownsville Road.

*[[Donahue, Zysk Linda]] - Carrick Community Council Treasurer and community organizer

*Donely, Wm. McClurg [[William McClurg Donely]] – First Borough Engineer.

*Eld, John [[John Eld]] - grandson of [[John J. Fleming]] once lived on [[Valera Street]]. John provided photos of his house.

*[[Englert, Milton S.]] - One of the original landowners and citizens of Baldwin Township, later Carrick Borough. Legend has it that the Carrick area was once called Englertville because of the glass works owned by the Englerts.

*[[Fisher, Dr. Edward]] - CHS class of 1960

*[[Finch, Walter ]] – First Street Commissioner

*[[Fink, Jean]] - Carrick Community Council President, Board Member and Pittsburgh Public School Board Member

*Fleming, John J. [[John J. Fleming]] – industrialist and inventor who lived in Carrick and worked as the chief engineer of Phillips Mining and Manufacturing Company.

*[[Fragasso Bob]] - Financial Advisor

*[[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']] - World War II winner of Distinguished Service Cross

*[[Goettler Paul]] - Carrick resident and WWII veteran

*[[Guthoerl Kilroy, Irma]] - long time organist at St. Basil Church

*Haupt, J. A. J. [[J. A. J. Haupt]] – Fifth Burgess

*[[Hazlett, Rev. John]] – Pastor [[Concord Presbyterian Church]] in 1872 starts academy for Higher Education at his home, Oak Grove, on Brownsville Road and corner of Stewart Avenue. Academy was the first school south of the Monongahela River to provide secondary education for older boys and girls.

*[[Herman, JoAnn]] - Jo Ann Herman / Fervent guardian of Carrick neighborhood June 18, 1934 - April 9, 2009

*[[Hagerling, Sidney A.]] - Army Distinguished Service Medal Winner

*[[Hodgson, Naomi]] - Retirement notice

*[[Hyman, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School alumni and legendary Jazz singer

*[[Jankowski, Ron and Barringer, William]] - baseball tryout photo

*[[Jones, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School Alumni Sports Walk of Fame Inductee

*[[Jumbo]] – Motorcycle cop in Carrick Borough in the 1920’s

*Lemon, John [[John Lemon]] – First Borough Solicitor

*[[Lewis, Joseph P.]] - First cashier at Carrick Bank which opened in 1913

*[[Lipinski, Walter]] - Veteran and author

*[[Lucarelli, Louis]] - Vietnam Vet returns article and photo

*[[Karas, Joseph M.]] - article by Joseph M. Karas

*[[Kaskey Ray]] - Sculptor

*[[Koontz, Bob]]

*[[Kloss, Shirley]] - Famous violinist

*[[Kraft, Richard]] - History of his life in Carrick

*Markowitz, Nick [[Nick Markowitz]] – early (1976) Carrick Historian who contributed many works, research and authored dozens of article about Carrick.

*[[McCue, Tim]] - Carrick resident and stock car driver article.

*[[Miners]] - A collection of coal miner photos not of Carrick but possibly a representation of how life was in the coal mines for our former residents.

*[[McClure, William]] - one of Carrick Borough's founding members

*[[Morgan, Al]] - Long time Carrick resident who claims Carrick grew up around him.

*[[Mutchler, Russell]] - Fireman retires article

*Noble, William [[William Noble]] - 1855 sells 100 acres for $45,000 and in 1865 sells 100 acres for $106,000. Probable namesake of Noble's Lane.

*Nusser, John [[John Nusser]] – Third Burgess

*O'Brien, Dr. John [[Dr. John O’Brien]] – named the first US Post Office in this area in 1853 after his home town of Carrick-on-Suir.

*[[Phillips, Anna Jane]] - Daughter of Harriet Duff Phillips and John M. Phillips. Married to Joseph Shuman.

*Phillips, John [[John Phillips]] – Owned a mansion that sat in the middle of current [[Hornaday Road]] and owned 12 acres of land that became known as Phillips Manor.

*Phillips, Harriet Duff [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] – Wife of John M. Phillips, daughter of Dr. Duff. 1913 founded Mothers Club. 1916 founded Brashear Settlement. 1934-1938 President of the PA. Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Pioneer of Women's Health Programs, 1956 Phillips Elementary School named after her father and her. South Side Hospital Board of Directors. Board member of Pittsburgh Board of Education.

*[[Phillips, James]] - one of John Phillips' sons. Photo of property holdings.

*Phillips, John M. [[John M. Phillips]] – nephew of [[John Phillips]], PA Game Commissioner, City of Pittsburgh Councilman, creator of Phillips Park, owned mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road named [[Impton]], conservationist, creator of state parks, instrumental in the creation of the Boy Scouts of America earning the title "Chief Silver Tip" by American Indians who taught and knew him. John M. Phillips was also a naturalist, environmentalist, Boy Scout Founder in Pennsylvania, owner of Phillips Mine and Manufacturing Company. In 1924 President Calvin Cooledge named him chair of a national conference on conservation.

*Phillips' Children [[John M. Phillips’ Children]] – 3 daughters Mrs. Anna Jane Phillips Shuman, Mrs. Mary Phillips Lutz, Mrs. Margaret Phillips Chalfont, 2 sons John M. Phillips, Jr. (Whitehall Borough Councilman), James M. Phillips. Also had 13 grandchildren.

*[[Pikelis, Louis]] - article about no mail for his house

*[[Quel Brothers]] - Five brothers who served together in World War II

*[[Rapp, Janet Vogel]] - Female vocalist of the group [[The Skyliners]].

*[[Readshaw, Harry]] - local businessman and PA State Representative

*Rosenfeld, Melissa [[Melissa Rosenfeld]] - Two articles in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describe Melissa Rosenfeld [[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] and [[Art project spruces up Carrick]].

*[[Rudiak, John J.]] - Carrick Community Council President, community organizer, PennDOT Traffic Systems Control Specialist

*[[Rudiak, Natalia A.]] - In 1997 named Carrick High School's Senior of the year. On May 19,2009 Natalia Rudiak becomes the first female City Councilperson to represent District 4 and the first Councilperson from Carrick.

*[[Russell, Robert]] – First Borough Clerk

*[[Sachko, Melody]] - Spelling Bee Champ

*Saits, John [[John Saits]] – First Borough Tax Collector

*Sankey Wm.; Phillips John M.; Benz, Phillip; Hartung, Richard; Dieterle Jacob; Eiler, Henry; Werner,John - [[First Council of Carrick Borough]]

*Sankey, William, Jr. [[William Sankey, Jr.]] – Fourth Burgess

*[[Sankey, Walter]] - Newspaper article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "To Charlotte, with love."

*Schenk, Henry [[Henry Schenk]] – Second Burgess

*[[Seemiller, Danny]] - Danny Seemiller is an American table tennis player. By 1972, he was the number one qualifier on the U.S. World Team. he has won five U.S. Men's Singles Championships (in 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983). He was once ranked #19 in the world.

*[[Scarletelli Family]] - Old photos of the Scarletelli family donated by Bernie Scarletelli

*[[Sexauer, Dr John F.]] - MD Carrick's popular General Practitioner, whose office was above Heinauer's Drug Store on Brownsville Road. Dr Sexauer was the CHS football team doctor in the fifties and sixties. The family resided on Overbrook Blvd, and had 3 children (Sue, Janet, and Jack/John Jr who graduated from CHS in 1960)

*[[Shuty, Betty]] - Local resident

*[[Smithdas, Robert]] - Article about Robert Smithdas

*[[Speicher, Joseph]] – Carrick Historian in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

*[[Sprenkle, Wm. H.]] – President Principal of Schools from 1909

*Stanford, J. S. [[J. S. Stanford]] – First Postmaster of the Carrick Post Office in December 23, 1853

*Stolzenbach, C. H. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] – First President of Carrick Bank

*[[Stolzenbach, A. H.]] - First Borough Treasurer,

*Tepe, Marie Brose [[Marie Brose Tepe]] - Also known as "French Mary"

*[[Trautmann, Albert R.]] - Vietnam veteran article

*Trott, Ellsworth C. [[Ellsworth C. Trott]] – Last Burgess of Carrick Borough 1927.

*[[Urban, Bill]] - Artist

*[[Urbaniak, John]] - Painter

*[[Vooletich Family]] - article describing orthodox dinner at the Vooletich home

*[[Warble Alexandra]] - Carrick High School 2008 Extra Effort Awardee

*[[Warble Family]] - The Warble family is an amazing asset to the Carrick Community

*[[Washburn, Dr Alan]] - distinguished engineer and professor, youngest child of educators Dr Merle and Lois Washburn, (John/Jack and Carolyn were siblings, all 3 were graduates of Carrick HS). The family resided on Almont Street.

*[[Wightman, William]] - One first settlers of Carrick, then St. Clair Township.

*[[Wigman Family]] - Photos and story about the Wigman Family who owned and built the historic [[Wigman House]].

*Wilson, James [[James Wilson]] – First Carrick Borough Post Master

*Wilson, John - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick [[Wilson Warranty Map]]

*[[Windstein, Robert]] - Wins award photo article

*[[Wine, Michelle]] - one of the first recipients of a liver transplant with donations from the community.

*[[Woshner, Michael]] - Carrick Community Volunteer

*[[Wright, Margaret Persosky]] - Young Carrick mother died on Easter Day 1930 after being beaten and molested on the shores of the Allegheny River. Murder never found.

== Schools ==

*[[Desegregation Thesis by William D. Rutherford]] - A desegregation thesis by William D. Rutherford regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools

*[[Carrick High School]]- The first graduating class was in 1926.
**[[Carrick High School 1939 Yearbook]] - Full copy of 1939 Carrick High School yearbook
**[[Carrick High School Twentieth Anniversary Edition 1926-1946]] - A special edition of the school's yearbooks. Especially interesting is the listing in photos and descriptions of those young men who died in the service.
** [[Carrick High School in the News]] - articles regarding Carrick High School.
** [[Carrick High School Sports]] - articles regarding Carrick High School Sports.
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1926-1976]] - newspaper photo and photo of reunion
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1985]] - booklet presented at the reunion
** [[Carrick Alumni]] - 2013 Honors Alumni

*[[Carrick High School Reunion the first 75 years]]
**[[Carrick High School 1920s]]
**[[Carrick High School Started at Quentin Roosevelt School in 1923]]
**[[Carrick High School Opened in 1924]]
**[[Carrick High School 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School 1926 Football Team]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of January 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of June 1926]]
**[[Carrick High School 1927]]
**[[Carrick High School 1928]]
**[[Carrick High School 1929]]
**[[Carrick High School 1930s]]
**[[Carrick High School Reunion Photo 1931-1981]]
**[[Carrick High School graduate sang with Glen Miller]]
**[[Carrick High School 1941]]
**[[Carrick High School Class of 41 Fight Song]]
**[[Carrick High School Last School Board]]
**[[Carrick High School Bill Lawrence '45 Spitfire Band]]
**[[Carrick High School Alma Mater Correction]]
**[[Carrick High School Jim Reiter]]
**[[Carrick High School 54 students died WWII list]]

*[[Concord Elementary School]] – current location is the fifth location. Originally built on the back of Concord Church as one room and became known as Concord. Second location at Brownsville Road and Agnew Avenue, Third location on Agnew Avenue and Dowling. Forth location on Carrick Avenue. Fifth and final location on Brownsville Road and Biscayne Avenue.

** [[Concord Chronicles]] - Concord Chronicles is a newsletter for parents and students of Concord Elementary School.

** [[Concord Elementary School News]] - Articles about events at Concord Elementary School.

*[[First school in Carrick]] – name unknown but reference is made to a school in a house at Brownsville Road and Wynoka Street.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[Roosevelt Elementary School]] - The original was located on [[The Boulevard]] and although rebuilt in the 1950s, it is still an elementary school. The original was named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Roosevelt Quentin Roosevelt] [[Quentin Roosevelt Elementary School]] after President Theodore Roosevelt's son who died in the First World War and was one of the original pilots who were buried in France during the war and remains there.

*[[Union High School]] - The Borough of Knoxville was the location of this high school. It was attended by the Borough of Carrick residents before Carrick High School was built.

== Sports ==

*[[1912 Baseball Team]] - Can you identify these people in this photo?

*[[Bowling]] - Can you identify the places and the people in these photos?

*[[Carrick Community Athletic Association]] - [http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=ccaabaseball Carrick Baseball Link]

*[[Carrick Crackerjacks]]

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Basketball]] - Basketball Team

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Football]] - Football Team

*[[Carrick Girls Softball Champions]]

*[[Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church Baseball Team 1923]] - winner of The Press Carrick Church League Championship of 1923

*[[Goose Goslings]]

*[[Pony League Champions]] - 1953 photo of Carrick's first Pony League Team and Champions

*[[Sports Teams]] - Amateur and Church affiliated teams in Carrick

== Streetcars ==

* [[Carrick Streetcar Ordinance]] - "If a streetcar picked up a fireman on the way to a fire, streetcar was not allowed to stop except to pick up another fireman."

* [[Horse Trolley]] - last run article

* [[Phillips Park Traction Park]] - Current Phillips Park becomes a "traction park." Previously known as Dilly's Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

* [[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

* [[Trolley 59 Carrick]] - Double ended trolley operated in the 1920's during rush hour and turned around on a short track spur at the corner of Brownsville Road and Crailo Street.

* [[Trolley Barns]] - Carrick Shopping Center where the current Foodland is located was a brick trolley barn, demolished in the 1950's and the end of the line at one time.

== Who are you ==

*[[Who are you]] - A collection of photos with no description and need an explanation.

*[[Polish Mill Worker Tag]] - Anyone know John Zaine, Polish mill worker in 1919?

*[[Unknown Tintype Photo]] - unknown location

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St. Basil’s School and Church

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Jrudiak:

== Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street currently the site of the Pittsburgh Public School, Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907. St. Basil's Elementary School occupied that building prior to extensive remodeling.==

'''From the 2011 [[Advent Historic Church Walk]] Booklet'''

[[File:St. basil's booklet.jpg]]

'''St Basil Roman Catholic Church'''

1735 Brownsville Road

Pittsburgh PA 15210

Saint Basil Parish in Carrick celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding on February 14, 2007.

Saint Basil Parish was founded when a small group of families from Carrick petitioned the Bishop of Pittsburgh in 1906 to form a new parish. Until that time, St. Wendelin Church, located in eastern Carrick, was the only Catholic parish in the area, and it was a considerable distance to travel for the many people living along Brownville Road.

In March 1907, some land was acquired at the corner of West Cherryhill Street and Brownsville Road, and early plans were drawn up for the construction of a large red, rectangular, combination church and school building. The architect was Thomas Comes, one of Pittsburgh’s greatest architects.

In 1922, to accommodate the ever-growing congregation, Father Charles J. Steppling proceeded with the construction of the present church on the same piece of property as the parish house, just a little to the right of it, at 1725 Brownsville Road.
The Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper gave the following description of the new church:

The new church takes its place as one of the purest types of basilica in this state. With walls of brick and stone, the floor is of mosaic, with a center aisle in cork. The sanctuary is a deep and wide spacing in bordered mosaic of subdued tones to carry through the warm airy atmosphere of the gray limestone which makes the 14 great columns with Corinthian capitals dividing the nave on both sides and which in tone completes the whole interior.

The windows flood the church with a glorious array of color and fire by day and they are marvelously beautiful from the exterior by night. Father Steppling noted that the picturization and the designs were drawn and windows made in Holland.

In the sanctuary on the right side is the window of “The Sacrifice of Melchiesedech,” and on the left side is “The Lords’s Supper”. On the left wall of the nave are in succession The Sacred Heart, St. Basil, (patron of the church) St. Gregory Nazianzus, Christ Blessing the Children, The Annunciation, St. George, St. Francis Seraph, St. Benedict; on the right side The Holy Family, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Charles and St. Aloysius, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, St. Henry, St. Joseph, St. Rose of Lima.

St. Basil Church is a brick construction of Byzantine architecture. The one tower that it possesses houses three bells which ring forth to remind all the faithful of the specific liturgical function that is to be enacted. The bells are named Saint Aloysius (from the first church) donated by Mr. Aloys Winter; Saint Charles (the largest bell) donated by Charles Lanz; and Saint Barbara donated by Barbara Winters. The bells are operated electronically from the sacristy.

The windows of the upper clerestory (the highest story of the nave of a church, with windows opening above the aisle roofs) are double, each pair being in the arch section between the pillars (the original cost of each window was $60). A large rose window showing Christ and the Four Evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) adds to the beauty of the front of the church. See our booklet: Church Windows of St. Basil (located at the entrance of the church) for a fuller description.

Upon entering Saint Basil Church, you are greeted by two four-foot tall white marble angels, each holding a vessel of holy water. They were donated by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dieterle and Mr. Raymond Winters. Off the vestibule to the right, currently the candle shrine, was the site of the baptistry. The window in the baptistry depicts Christ being baptized by John in the Jordan River (donated by the Christian Mothers). The baptismal font is now located in the sanctuary to the right of the altar. The Sorrowful Mother in the shrine was also later donated by the Christian Mothers. The statue of Saint Basil in the niche outside the church (high above the front doors) was donated by Thomas McGovern.

Saint Basil Church stands unsurpassed for its beauty of style, originality of design, and fineness of workmanship. It remains the spiritual home of nearly 2,400 Catholic Christians in Carrick and the neighboring areas.

[[File:St. basil rose window 2011.jpg|500px]] [[File:St. basil alter 2011.jpg|500px]]

== Can you identify these kids? ==

== St. Basil's School 1st Grade Class, 1926 ==

[[Image:St. basil 1926 1st grade class.jpg]]

== St. Basil's School 7th Grade Class photo 1930, Room 14 ==

[[Image:St. basils school 1930.jpg]]

== Maureen Davis submitted this photo with this message. ==
== My dad’s family, the Bernardings, grew up on Westmont Ave in Carrick and I would like to contribute a photo from a class at St Basils 1924. And also would like my uncle, Archbishop George E. Bernarding, who was a missionary to New Guinea beginning in the late 1930s, added to the Peoples Section. He also went to St. Basils. ==

== St. Basil School Room 2 1924 ==

[[File:St. Basil Room 2 1924 resized.jpg]]

St. Basil’s School and Church

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== Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street currently the site of the Pittsburgh Public School, Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907. St. Basil's Elementary School occupied that building prior to extensive remodeling.==

'''From the 2011 [[Advent Historic Church Walk]] Booklet'''

[[File:St. basil's booklet.jpg]]

'''St Basil Roman Catholic Church'''

1735 Brownsville Road

Pittsburgh PA 15210

Saint Basil Parish in Carrick celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding on February 14, 2007.

Saint Basil Parish was founded when a small group of families from Carrick petitioned the Bishop of Pittsburgh in 1906 to form a new parish. Until that time, St. Wendelin Church, located in eastern Carrick, was the only Catholic parish in the area, and it was a considerable distance to travel for the many people living along Brownville Road.

In March 1907, some land was acquired at the corner of West Cherryhill Street and Brownsville Road, and early plans were drawn up for the construction of a large red, rectangular, combination church and school building. The architect was Thomas Comes, one of Pittsburgh’s greatest architects.

In 1922, to accommodate the ever-growing congregation, Father Charles J. Steppling proceeded with the construction of the present church on the same piece of property as the parish house, just a little to the right of it, at 1725 Brownsville Road.
The Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper gave the following description of the new church:

The new church takes its place as one of the purest types of basilica in this state. With walls of brick and stone, the floor is of mosaic, with a center aisle in cork. The sanctuary is a deep and wide spacing in bordered mosaic of subdued tones to carry through the warm airy atmosphere of the gray limestone which makes the 14 great columns with Corinthian capitals dividing the nave on both sides and which in tone completes the whole interior.

The windows flood the church with a glorious array of color and fire by day and they are marvelously beautiful from the exterior by night. Father Steppling noted that the picturization and the designs were drawn and windows made in Holland.

In the sanctuary on the right side is the window of “The Sacrifice of Melchiesedech,” and on the left side is “The Lords’s Supper”. On the left wall of the nave are in succession The Sacred Heart, St. Basil, (patron of the church) St. Gregory Nazianzus, Christ Blessing the Children, The Annunciation, St. George, St. Francis Seraph, St. Benedict; on the right side The Holy Family, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Charles and St. Aloysius, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, St. Henry, St. Joseph, St. Rose of Lima.

St. Basil Church is a brick construction of Byzantine architecture. The one tower that it possesses houses three bells which ring forth to remind all the faithful of the specific liturgical function that is to be enacted. The bells are named Saint Aloysius (from the first church) donated by Mr. Aloys Winter; Saint Charles (the largest bell) donated by Charles Lanz; and Saint Barbara donated by Barbara Winters. The bells are operated electronically from the sacristy.

The windows of the upper clerestory (the highest story of the nave of a church, with windows opening above the aisle roofs) are double, each pair being in the arch section between the pillars (the original cost of each window was $60). A large rose window showing Christ and the Four Evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) adds to the beauty of the front of the church. See our booklet: Church Windows of St. Basil (located at the entrance of the church) for a fuller description.

Upon entering Saint Basil Church, you are greeted by two four-foot tall white marble angels, each holding a vessel of holy water. They were donated by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dieterle and Mr. Raymond Winters. Off the vestibule to the right, currently the candle shrine, was the site of the baptistry. The window in the baptistry depicts Christ being baptized by John in the Jordan River (donated by the Christian Mothers). The baptismal font is now located in the sanctuary to the right of the altar. The Sorrowful Mother in the shrine was also later donated by the Christian Mothers. The statue of Saint Basil in the niche outside the church (high above the front doors) was donated by Thomas McGovern.

Saint Basil Church stands unsurpassed for its beauty of style, originality of design, and fineness of workmanship. It remains the spiritual home of nearly 2,400 Catholic Christians in Carrick and the neighboring areas.

[[File:St. basil rose window 2011.jpg|500px]] [[File:St. basil alter 2011.jpg|500px]]

== Can you identify these kids? ==

== St. Basil's School 1st Grade Class, 1926 ==

[[Image:St. basil 1926 1st grade class.jpg]]

== St. Basil's School 7th Grade Class photo 1930, Room 14 ==

== Maureen Davis submitted this photo with this message. ==
== My dad’s family, the Bernardings, grew up on Westmont Ave in Carrick and I would like to contribute a photo from a class at St Basils 1924. And also would like my uncle, Archbishop George E. Bernarding, who was a missionary to New Guinea beginning in the late 1930s, added to the Peoples Section. He also went to St. Basils. ==

[[Image:St. basils school 1930.jpg]]

== St. Basil School Room 2 1924 ==
[[File:St. Basil Room 2 1924 resized.jpg]]

St. Basil’s School and Church

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== Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street currently the site of the Pittsburgh Public School, Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907. St. Basil's Elementary School occupied that building prior to extensive remodeling.==

'''From the 2011 [[Advent Historic Church Walk]] Booklet'''

[[File:St. basil's booklet.jpg]]

'''St Basil Roman Catholic Church'''

1735 Brownsville Road

Pittsburgh PA 15210

Saint Basil Parish in Carrick celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding on February 14, 2007.

Saint Basil Parish was founded when a small group of families from Carrick petitioned the Bishop of Pittsburgh in 1906 to form a new parish. Until that time, St. Wendelin Church, located in eastern Carrick, was the only Catholic parish in the area, and it was a considerable distance to travel for the many people living along Brownville Road.

In March 1907, some land was acquired at the corner of West Cherryhill Street and Brownsville Road, and early plans were drawn up for the construction of a large red, rectangular, combination church and school building. The architect was Thomas Comes, one of Pittsburgh’s greatest architects.

In 1922, to accommodate the ever-growing congregation, Father Charles J. Steppling proceeded with the construction of the present church on the same piece of property as the parish house, just a little to the right of it, at 1725 Brownsville Road.
The Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper gave the following description of the new church:

The new church takes its place as one of the purest types of basilica in this state. With walls of brick and stone, the floor is of mosaic, with a center aisle in cork. The sanctuary is a deep and wide spacing in bordered mosaic of subdued tones to carry through the warm airy atmosphere of the gray limestone which makes the 14 great columns with Corinthian capitals dividing the nave on both sides and which in tone completes the whole interior.

The windows flood the church with a glorious array of color and fire by day and they are marvelously beautiful from the exterior by night. Father Steppling noted that the picturization and the designs were drawn and windows made in Holland.

In the sanctuary on the right side is the window of “The Sacrifice of Melchiesedech,” and on the left side is “The Lords’s Supper”. On the left wall of the nave are in succession The Sacred Heart, St. Basil, (patron of the church) St. Gregory Nazianzus, Christ Blessing the Children, The Annunciation, St. George, St. Francis Seraph, St. Benedict; on the right side The Holy Family, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Charles and St. Aloysius, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, St. Henry, St. Joseph, St. Rose of Lima.

St. Basil Church is a brick construction of Byzantine architecture. The one tower that it possesses houses three bells which ring forth to remind all the faithful of the specific liturgical function that is to be enacted. The bells are named Saint Aloysius (from the first church) donated by Mr. Aloys Winter; Saint Charles (the largest bell) donated by Charles Lanz; and Saint Barbara donated by Barbara Winters. The bells are operated electronically from the sacristy.

The windows of the upper clerestory (the highest story of the nave of a church, with windows opening above the aisle roofs) are double, each pair being in the arch section between the pillars (the original cost of each window was $60). A large rose window showing Christ and the Four Evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) adds to the beauty of the front of the church. See our booklet: Church Windows of St. Basil (located at the entrance of the church) for a fuller description.

Upon entering Saint Basil Church, you are greeted by two four-foot tall white marble angels, each holding a vessel of holy water. They were donated by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dieterle and Mr. Raymond Winters. Off the vestibule to the right, currently the candle shrine, was the site of the baptistry. The window in the baptistry depicts Christ being baptized by John in the Jordan River (donated by the Christian Mothers). The baptismal font is now located in the sanctuary to the right of the altar. The Sorrowful Mother in the shrine was also later donated by the Christian Mothers. The statue of Saint Basil in the niche outside the church (high above the front doors) was donated by Thomas McGovern.

Saint Basil Church stands unsurpassed for its beauty of style, originality of design, and fineness of workmanship. It remains the spiritual home of nearly 2,400 Catholic Christians in Carrick and the neighboring areas.

[[File:St. basil rose window 2011.jpg|500px]] [[File:St. basil alter 2011.jpg|500px]]

== Can you identify these kids? ==

== St. Basil's School 1st Grade Class, 1926 ==

[[Image:St. basil 1926 1st grade class.jpg]]

== St. Basil's School 7th Grade Class photo 1930, Room 14 ==

[[Image:St. basils school 1930.jpg]]

== St. Basil School Room 2 1924 ==
[[File:St. Basil Room 2 1924 resized.jpg]]

St. Basil’s School and Church

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CARRICK HISTORY

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== Questions or inquiries can be directed to carrickhistory@gmail.com ==

*If you are new to the Carrick Overbrook History web site and wish to be a contributor, as a courtesy please contact carrickhistory@gmail.com. We would like to meet with you to discuss our web site and instruct you on how to contribute photos, files or information.

== [[Current events]] ==

*[http://wiki.carrick-overbrook.org/Current_events Current Community Events]

== Our Name: ==

*[[Carrick-on-Suir]] – Carrick Post Office was named after this Irish City of Dr. John O’Brien who had the honor of naming the first post office in this area of Baldwin Township in 1853. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_on_Suir Wikipedia Carrick-on-Suir]

*[[Carrick Swan and Rock]] – official emblem of Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. Rock because in Gaelic Carrick means Rock and swans because it is located on the River Suir which has many swans.

== Articles, Booklets, Photos and Notes about Carrick ==

*[[Articles about Carrick]] - Compilation of newspaper articles and research papers about Carrick Borough and the Carrick Neighborhood.

*[[Brownsville Road]] - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1900 story

*[[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] - in an effort to improve the image of Brownsville Road artists are painting panels attach to storefront windows.
**[[Art project spruces up Carrick]] - "A Pittsburgh Leader article from 1904 reporting on the status of Carrick stated that "if nine out of 10 Pittsburgers were asked where Carrick is they could not answer. If asked to describe the place they would be equally at sea."

*[[Carrick's 2011 Dump Clean Up]] - Spring of 2011 Dump Cleanup, April 9, 2010

*[[Carrick Park 1914 Letter]]

*[[Carrick Park 1917 Description]]

*[[Carrick's Borough's 10th Anniversary]] - 1914 Booklet

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] - 1906 dedication Booklet.

*[[Carrick Community Council Response to 2012 Crime Statistics]]

*[[Carrick High School Reunion Dedication to WWII Veterans]]

*[[Carrick's History in Street Signs]] - This is a youtube presentation of our history by interpreting street names.

*[[Carrick Profile 1970]] - CARRICK – 1970 A COMMUNITY PROFILE Prepared by The Department of City Planning, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1974

*[[Carrick Walk About]] - Article that appeared in the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post Gazette] by Diana Nelson Jones on March 28, 2009.

* Concord Elementary School Articles
**[[Concord Elementary Coats for Kids]] - Article about Concord Elementary Parents and kids, February, 2010.
** [[History Lesson at Concord School]] - Article about a history lesson regarding [[John M. Phillips]] by John Rudiak and Julia Tomasic.
** [[Concord students complete first ‘Reach for the Stars’ challenge]] - Article about Concord Elementary School Achievements

*[[Coal mines]] - A collection of stories and facts regarding our underground.

*[[Depression Life]] - Article from the [http://www.post-gazette.com/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] about life in the depression by Carrick native [[Emily Pritchard Cary]].

*[[Early Carrick History]] - A letter to Harriet Duff Phillips from a Mr. Bennett who talks about very eary Carrick History. There is no date on this letter.

*[[Fire at the Boron Gas Station]] - A short story told by Nick Markowitz

*[[Ghost Stories]] - Stories of the ghosts and spirits of Carrick

*[[Bandi, Harry]] - article about Harry Bandi's flower

*[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[The Hornaday Road Report]] - by Joe Krynock. Joe explains how the Hornaday Road project started and how the History Society was started.

*[[Hornaday Road Welcome]] - Article about Hornaday Road residents welcoming veteran Army 1st Lt. Bob Muessner back from his tour in Iraq.

*[[History of Carrick Borough]] - This speech, documented on March 22,1927, probably the best speeches delivered in [[Carrick High School]], was made on February 3, 1927, by Beatrice Evans who graduated on that night.

*[[Historical Marker Applications]] and [[John M. Phillips Marker Dedication]] - The Society has applied for two [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2539&&SortOrder=200&level=2&parentCommID=1586&menuLevel=Level_2&mode=2 Pennsylvania Historical Markers] for [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. These are the applications and the subsequent dedication.

*[[Horse and Wagon Registrations]] - Photos and Articles of Horse and Cart Registrations

*[[Maytide Street]] - Photo of Maytide near Brownsville Road

*[[Neighborhood Authors]] - An ongoing compilation of neighborhood writers who have seen their works in print.

*[[Open the Door to the Hilltop]] – John M. Phillips’ slogan to widen 18th Street and pave it.

*[[Photos of our Beautiful Neighborhood]] - Post your favorite photos of our neigborhood here.

*[[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]] - One of the most quoted newspaper articles about Carrick Borough written in 1904.

*[[Recollections]] - Stories and recollections from residents and former residents about life in the South Hills.

*[[Six-burgh Reasons Why I love Pittsburgh]] - Two residents of Carrick, Robert C. Meussner, Sr. and Brandon William Skalniak won the contest held in the summer of 2009.

*[[South Side Iron, Steel and Glass and the connection to Carrick and Overbrook]] - Research by Joe Krynock

*[[Snow Storm February 2010]] - Articles and Photos of the snow storm February, 2010.

*[[Street Names]] - This was a presentation to students at Pittsburgh Carmalt Elementary School in Brookline by [[John J. Rudiak]]

*[[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

*[[WWII Articles]] - A collection of articles which appeared in newspapers about the men and women serving in the war.

*[[Zebra, Robert, et. al. v School District of the City of Pittsburgh]] - Brief for Robert Zebra, et al., Appellees

== Buildings and Homes ==

*[[1425 Brownsville Road]] [[Wigman House]] - This is our Crown Jewel Victorian

*[[145 Madeline Street]] - Home of [[Emily Pritchard Cary]]

*[[1726 Brownsville Road]] - Home of [[John J. Flemming]]

*[[2449 Valera Street]] - Home of [[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']]

*[[2920 Brownsville Road]]-Home of Robert F. Phillips torn down for a food store building.

*[[2724 Churchview Avenue]] - See [[Thomas Sankey Mansion]]

*[[Carrick Building and Loan Association]] - No longer in existence - "ghost sign" discovered.

*[[Carrick Log Cabin]] - Located at Brownsville Road across the street from Overbrook Blvd

*[[Carrick Post Office]] - This photo may be the Carrick, Pennsylvania US Post Office.

*[[Pittsburgh Register of Historical Places - Carrick]] - Individual significant buildings, structures and sites in Carrick.
**[[Historical Status Article]]

*[[House Moving]] - Photos of the moving of Fallert's house moving operation at Brownsville Road and Laughlin Avenue.

*[[Impton]] - The home of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]

*[[Thomas Sankey Mansion]] - 2724 Churchview Avenue

== Businesses ==

*[[A & P Store]] – First in now the old Isaly’s, then moved to a small room near Brentwood Bank, maybe in 1933, where the Melrose Theater was built.

*Bud's Place [[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[Burns hardware]] - Located in the "new" Carrick Shopping Center it still had the old time "we have everything you need" hardware store feel.

*[[Boron Funeral Home]] - First started as [[Koontz Funeral Home]].

*[[Carrick Brazing and Welding]] - Charles Horne in 1945 opened Carrick Brazing and Welding at 221 Madeline Avenue. He moved to the current location of 401 Nobles Lane in 1946.

*[[Carrick Shopping Center]] - formerly the site of Semmelrock Funeral Home and family home which were demolished to build the center. Shopping center was built in the 1950.

*[[Caruso’s Music Store]] - One of Carrick's oldest businesses and possible site of a Carrick Post Office.

*[[Colteryahn's Dairy]] - The oldest dairy still operating the City of Pittsburgh is located right here in Carrick.
**[[Dairy District Planning Session]] - photos and tour of Colteryahn and the Dairy District planning sessions

*[[Cost Cutters]] - Established 1985 in the Carrick Shopping Center

*[[Dudt’s Bakery]] – located at Belplain Avenue and 2552 Brownsville Road. Highly rated throughout the South Hills. Cameron Dudt owner.

*[[Emmerich’s Confectionery]] - 1808 Brownsville Road

*[[Esso Station]] – Located at Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue.

*[[Giant Eagle]] - Formerly the home of [[Robert Phillips]] the Giant Eagle was built in the 1960s and then abandoned due to a move to Brentwood Towne Centre. Proposed home to Senior Housing in 2013.

*[[Haszalbart's Hardware]] - Located at Craillo Avenue and Brownsville Road

*[[Heinauer Pharmacy]] - owned by Harry Bande

*[[Kraus' Carrick Isaly's]] - Business owned by Councilman Bruce Kraus' Family.

*[[Landefeld Dry Goods Store]] – Across from Melrose was Brentwood Bank.

*[[Lennix Gulf Station]] – was also a trolley barn later on and the end of the line until line extended to the current Bank site and bus turn around.

*[[Lobalzo's Cafe]] - Currently Bud's Place 1128 Brownsville Road

*[[McGinnnis Sisters]] - McGinniss Sisters first store was a Mobil Gas Station at the corner of Brownsville Road and Claus Avenue

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Movie theater on [[Brownsville Road]] across the street from Sankey Avenue. Currently an office building.

*[[Mr. Erny’s]] – Home and Funeral Home built in 1928 across from Raleigh Square.

*[[Readshaw Funeral Home]] - Located in the 1500 block of Brownsville Road

*[[Shell Gas Station]] – now [[Lennox Gulf]]

*[[Shemmelrock Funeral Home]] – Funeral Home in Carrick at current site of Carrick Shopping Center.

*[[Schran's Market]] - Located directly across from [[Hornaday Road]] and Brownville Road.

*[[Superior Fur Company]] - Located at 434 Brownsville Road.

*[[Stanley’s Parlors]] – Bowling lanes and apartments.

*[[Storch’s Electric Marble and Granite Works]] – at what is now the Dairy Queen Property.

*[[Urben's Drug Store]] - At the corner of Church (currently Churchview) Avenue and Brownsville Road in 1925.

*[[Valdiserri’s Fruit Market]] – across from Zimmerman Cemetery closes 1932.

*[[Yago’s Hardware]] – Located next to current [[Carrick Hardware]].

== Cemeteries ==

'''We recently were informed about a web site titled [http://www.findagrave.com/ FindAGrave.com]. This web site has information about our cemeteries and by joining their site you can add photos and information too.'''

*[[Beth Abraham Cemetery]] - Jewish cemetery which borders Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Birmingham Cemetery]] - (a/k/a Zimmerman Cemetery, a/k/a Lorch's Cemetery, a/k/a German United Protestant Evangelical Cemetery), 2511 Brownsville Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery]] – Located at 1907 Brownsville Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15210-4201. Among other famous Carrick residents it was also the burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and namesake of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[St. Adalbert]] - Predominently Polish Catholic Cemetery, the parent church is located in the South Side of Pittsburgh on South 15th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203

*[[St. George]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[St. Joseph]] - now called [[St. John Vianny]]

*[[South Side Cemetery]] - 1404 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. This is a non demoninational cemetery located in the heart of Carrick. Many of the area's most influential individuals have made this their final resting place. Reference is made to this cemetery in this article [[Pittsburgh Leader 1904]].

*[[St. Wendelin Cemetery]] - Located surrounding the [[St. Wendelin Church]] on the border with Baldwin Borough at St Wendelin's Catholic Church, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227-2199

== Facts ==

*[[British Columbia Connection]] – Mountain named after John M. Phillips

*Carrick’s Acreage – size in acres of Carrick in 1927 -1,015

*[[Carrick First]] – First Borough to lay all streets on a six inch base. As a result there is still little need for repairs on these streets.First sanitary sewer system in Western Pennsylvania

*[[June 21, 1904]] – Carrick becomes a borough.

== Holidays ==

*[[Bird Day]]-created in the late 1800s to teach children about nature and to promote bird in the neighborhoods.

*[[Churchview Avenue Picnic photo]] - Hess Farm 1916

*[[Carrick Cornfest]] - an annual event in Carrick started in the late 1970s
**[[2010 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2010 Cornfest
**[[2011 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2011 Cornfest
**[[2012 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2012 Cornfest
**[[2013 Community Cornfest]] - Details of the 2013 Cornfest

*[[Picnic Day Photo]] - Photo of a neighborhood picnic in 1913 Lacona Street and Laughlin Street Ext. The area was called Heideis Hollow.

*[[Tree Day]] - Arbor Day in Carrick see [[John M. Phillips]]

== [[Homes]] ==

*[[Harry Englert House]] - Hornaday Road

*[[Wigman House]] - 1725 Brownsville Road. Our 'Crown Jewel' of Carrick and our first historic house designated by the City of Pittsburgh.

*[[Winter Homes]] - 2314 and 2316 Brownsville Road. Duplex sister homes built by Barbara and Alois Winter. This is our first designated Historic District.

== Houses of Worship ==

*[[Advent Historic Church Walk]] - December 11, 2011, First Annual Historic Church Walk

*[[Birmingham United Church of Christ]] - 25 Carrick Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Concord Presbyterian Church]] – 1907 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831. First church building built in 1832. Burial site of John Maugridge Snowden, mayor of Pittsburgh 1825-1829 and nameske of Snowden township, later renamed South Park Township.

*[[Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses]] - 2401 Raven St, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 1628 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210

*[[Passionist Convent]] – Erected in 1910 and was one of the first of its kind in America.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Roman Catholic, 1735 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[St. Pius X Byzantine Catholic Church]] - Byzantine Catholic, 2336 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, Built on the site of John M. and Harriet Duff Phillips home of [[Impton]].

*[[Saint Wendelins Catholic Church]] - Roman Catholic, 2728 Custer Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Spencer United Methodist Church]] -

*[[Stewart Avenue Evangelical Lutheran Church]] - Evangelical Lutheran, 2810 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15227

*[[Zion Christian Church]]- 98 Hornaday Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, formerly the Union Baptist Church

== Landmarks ==

*[[Agnew Glass Works]] – Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and current E. Agnew Avenue.

*[[Alpha Sign Company]] – first company to install billboards on Brownsville Road in Carrick. Signs called eyesores even at that time.

*[[Brownsville Plank Road]] – known by that name because of the 4’ plank road for clean riding and maintained by tolls.

*[[Brownsville Road]] – At one time was an Indian Trail was also known as Brownsville Pittsburgh Toll Road, Brownsville Plank Road, Southern Avenue and Brownsville Road. The road had at one time three toll booths, was a mud rutted road impassible in spring and fall, used by farmers to transport livestock to Pittsburgh and was a stagecoach route to Brownsville PA. John M. Phillips was called Boardwalk John because of his effort to plank Brownville Road and widened the road to its current width.

*[[Brownsville Road]] names – Southern Avenue, Brownsville Plank Road, Birmingham and Brownsville Macadamized Turnpike Road, Brownsville Avenue.

*[[Bucks Tavern]] – A toll booth, hotel and tavern for travelers using Brownsville Road to Brownville. Currently the Italian Club. Built in 1818, burned in 1853.

*[[Carrick Avenue Wooden Footbridge]] - Wooden footbridge spaning Ravine Street later and currently named Raven Street. Removed in 1953.

*[[Carrick Bank]] – first bank to be organized in the community. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] becomes the first President. Biddle Boys said to have robbed Carrick Bank in their bank robbing spree.

*[[Carrick Borough Building]] – located next to the current [[Caruso’s Music Store]]

*[[Carrick Hotel]] - Also known as the Hotel Carrick and is currently the location of Acapulco Joe's Bar and apartment.

*[[Carrick Library]] – formerly operated by the Fire Company was established in 1930. [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Library Link]

*[[Carrick Literary Society]] - Definitely not to be confused with the current Carrick Literary Club at 210 Copperfield Avenue.

*[[Carrick Mural]] - Currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]]. Once the site of [[Agnew Glass Works]] and [[Werner Moving and Storage Company]].

*[[Carrick Post Office]] – First government post office in Baldwin Township established in December 23, 1853. Possibly located in later years next to the Carrick Borough offices in what is now [[Caruso’s Music Store]].

*[[Carrick Telephone office]] – Located at Overbrook Boulevard and Brownsville Road. 1904 had 50 subscribers, by 1910 had 300.

*[[Concord Church]] – was one of the first churches built in Carrick in 1831.

*[[Craillo]] area of Carrick near Concord Church.

*[[Engleartville]] – First name of the Carrick area named after Engleart Glass Company.

*[[Hess Farm]] - Located on Churchview Avenue - photo only

*[[Hornaday Road]] - named after [[William T. Hornaday]] by [[John M. Phillips]]William Hornaday was an environmentalist and naturalist and friend who accompanied John M. Phillips on many excursions to classify animals. Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Impton]] - Mansion's name of [[John M. Phillips]] and [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] Also see [[Phillips Properties]].

*[[Johnnies Ice Cream Bar]] - 154 Parkfield Street at corner of Spokane Avenue -served thousands of student from Carrick High School.

*[[Keeling Coal Company]] owner of a coal mine on St. Patrick Street in Mt. Oliver. The mine was connected with the South Side by an incline, now the site of South Side Park, that ran from St. Patrick St. to 21st St. The mine continued under Mt. Oliver, crossed a ravine on a 200 yard trestle over Wagner Street, and continued under Carrick near Bruner and Linnview Avenue. It then continued underground to Spiketown, where it emerged again. Coal from the Bausman mine was tranferred to a train pulled by a steam locomotive, and transported through the Keeling mine to the coal incline.

*[[L’Enfant]] [[L'Enfant - Mother's statue]]– Mother and child sculpture currently residing at Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street since 1966. Originally called L’Enfant was donated to the Mother’s House. Won second price in Paris, France. Sculpted by Roger Bloche.

*[[Maytide Street]] - Also check [[Street Names]]. Called Maine Street (also in Overbrook Borough) before Overbrook Borough became and Carrick Borough became part of the City of Pittsburgh

*[[Melrose Theater]] - Located at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Sankey Avenue the theater no longer exists but you can see some of the original building behind the new front.

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. This is the location of their first meeting house that was located at the corner of current Spokane and Parkfield Avenues.

*[[Nicholodean]] – Currently the St. Basil’s Credit Union and was the site of Carrick Library.

*[[Parkfield Street]]- Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[Phillips Park]] – named after [[John M. Phillips]] for the many donated trees and swimming pool. Also known as Dilly’s Grove, Southern Park and Carrick Park was originally a Trolley Traction Park with vaudeville acts, roller coasters, merry go rounds and other attractions. Dilly’s Grove was part of the Coffey Estate bought in 1904 for $29,000

*[[Phillips Properties]] - Scattered from Downtown Pittsburgh to the South Side (Birmingham) to Carrick this is a compilation of the Phillips properties by Robert F. Phillips.

*[[Phillips, Robert F.]] home - Home on Brownsville Road demolished for the now vacant Giant Eagle building. See [[Phillips Properties]]

*[[Raleigh Square]] – Once a farm and land taken in 1928 and prior to that year farm was here. The farm was not taken care and fire destroys the 2 story, frame, unpainted house of the farmer who had a wife and 8 children. Sold by the farmer who had 8 children but could no longer make ends meet. Land comprised of an area along Brownsville Road from the Phillips’ residence to Willies (across from Clifton Street to Maytide Street and on back to Phillps’ residence. The land bordered by Biscayne Avenue to around Wysox Avenue to Maytide Street to [[Valera Street]].

*[[Spiketown]] – Comes into existance in 1868. The area around current Volunteer’s Fields. Neighborhood of homes built by miners of the Keeling Coal Company. Said to be called Spiketown because the miners used mine spikes to build their homes. Also said to be named after the Speiker Family whose large family also lived in the area.

*[[Stewart Avenue]] – named after the great Stewart Farm. Also see [[Street Names]].

*[[The Boulevard]] - One of the very first streets in Carrick. Eligible for Historic District.

*[[Toll Stations]] – First toll station was located at Knox Avenue, another at the current Italian Club and a third at current Churchview Road

*[[Traction Park]] – Current Phillips Park becomes a “traction park.” Previously known as Dilly’s Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

*[[Utility covers]] - From Carrick Borough's past this is an assortment of utility covers. Can you find where they all are?

*[[William Wightman’s Land]] – Bought from the Indians for one iron ax by William Wightman. Area from present Parkfield Street to Maytide Street along Brownsville Road then west along Saw Mill Run. Present Verizon telephone building on this land.

*Wilson's Farm - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Valera Street]] - A portion of Valera Street is in an plan called Raleigh Square

== Library ==

*[[Carnegie Library - Carrick]] - 1811 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15210 [http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Carnegie Library Link]

== Maps ==

*[[Coal Mine Maps]] - A collection of underground coal mine maps under Carrick, Overbrook and the area. Courtesy of Carol Anthony.

*[[Maps]] - A collection of maps, plans and diagrams of Carrick
**[[Street Names]] - Changed street names when Carrick Borough became the 29th Ward of Pittsburgh in 1927
*[[Wilson Warranty Map]] of [[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick
* Additional maps on [http://images.library.pitt.edu/maps/searchpage.html Historic Pittsburgh CLICK HERE]

== War Memorials ==

*[[Missing WWII Memorial]] - photo of Mrs. Mary Quel standing next to the missing WWII war memorial.

*[[St. Basil Church]] - Positioned in front of St. Basil Church

*[[Partial List of War Memorials]]

== Near to Carrick ==
This section is for those historic places near to our neighborhood but not quite Carrick.

*[[18th Street]] - Late in the 19th century many people petitioned the city of Pittsburgh to build a decent road to the Hilltop, as the borough on the mountaintop were refered to then. Here is the location of a few photos of that road.

*[[Becks Run Flood]] - See [[Page's]]

*[[Page's]] - located at the intersection of Beck's Run Road and E. Carson Street Page's Gas Station and Dairy Store has been a fixture on the South Side for over a century. This intersection is on one of the gateway roads to Carrick.

*[[ Ulman-Horne VFW 456]] - Located at Penn Avenue and Hays Avenue in Mt. Oliver

== Organizations ==

*[[Carrick Borough]] - Formed in 1904 and annexed into the City of Pittsburgh in 1927.

*[[Carrick High School Alumni]]- [[Carrick High School]] alumni can visit the web site on this page to get together with former classmates.

*[[Carrick Community Council]] - Formed early in our history the community council is still valuable forum for residents to learn about the events in the neighborhood and find answers to problems and issues. Form more information [[http://www.carrickpa.com/ click here]]

*[[Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society]] - Formed officially in 2008 to document the history and current events of Carrick and Overbrook neighborhoods.

*[[Carrick Council of Republican Women]] - photo with article

*[[GBU - German Beneficial Union]] - The GBU, or German Beneficial Union, originally began in Carrick with a great hall and building located at 2500 Brownsville Road. The building is currently an apartment building with 32 units.

*[[Italian Sons and Daughters of America]] - We all know it as their building as the Italian Club, former site of [[Bucks Tavern]].

*[[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] - The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]].

*[[Republican Women of Carrick]] - photo with names

*[[Southern Country Club]] - a social club that once existed on Claus Avenue

*[[Totally Against Graffiti]] - an organization started by Melissa Rosenfeld to stamp out Carrick's graffiti.

*[[Tree Tenders]] - Carrick's Tree Tenders are a group of certified tree tenders who meet once per month to trim, mulch and weed our trees.

== People ==

*[[5th Contingent Leaving Carrick to Petersburg, VA April 3, 1918]] - Photo infront of the [[Concord Presbyterian Church]].

*[[Agnew, John]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Agnew, Mary]] - Also see [[Agnew Glass Works]]

*[[Askin, Ralph]] - A physician who practiced in Carrick at 2117 Brownsville Road.

*Bauman, Wm. [[Wm. Bauman]] – First Police Chief

*Bausman, Nicholas [[Nicholas Bausman]] - early settler and landowner in 1818 sells the Carrick area to Noble Calhoun for $5,000.

*[[Benedik Family]] - 6 members of one family in the service.

*[[Bennet, William]] - recollections of Wm. Bennet, age 90

*[[Boardwalk John]] – nickname for [[John M. Phillips]] because he wanted to build a 4’ wide boardwalk from Mt. Oliver to the 3rd. toll gate. He had a vision of a future 60’ Right of Way street and sidewalk and had citizens volunteer to build the street. As a demonstration of what a 60’ Right of Way paved road and sidewalk would look like, [[John M. Phillips]] purchases the property across from his 2236 Brownsville Road home so he could lay sidewalks and widen and pave Brownsville Road.

*[[Beaumont, Jimmy]] - Jimmy Beaumont is the lead singer of Jimmy Beaumont and the [[Skyliners]].

*[[Ball, Gail]] - rolling pin thrower winner article

*[[Brown, Sherry Miller]] - Director of the College of General Studies’ McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success

*Cary, Emily Prichard [[Emily Prichard Cary]] - She was a native of Pittsburgh and now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Emily writes about her life in Carrick.

*Calhoun, Noble [[Noble Calhoun]] - 1842 sells Carrick to William Noble for $17,000

*[[Carrick Centurions]] - A collection of Carrick residents who have reached the century mark birthdays.

*[[Caruso, Henry]] - Carrick business owner of Caruso's Music and music teacher.

*[[Dr. Dapper, Harry R., MD]] - Suddenly murdered in 1928, murder never found.

*Dawida, Audrey [[Audrey Dawida]] - Wife of Michael Dawida and community volunteer. Audrey was active in the neighborhood's history.

*Dawida, Michael [[Michael Dawida]] – State Representative, State Senator, Allegheny County Commissioner

*[[DeLuca, Mark]] - Carrick native and Muay Thai fighter won the Thai Boxing Association-Sanctioning Authority (TBA-SA) Superlightweight World Championship on Saturday Nov. 8, 2008, in Des Moines, Iowa.

* Devlin,Peter A. [[Peter A Devlin]] – one of the area’s first settlers. Log cabin moved to Phillips Park but no one remembers it there. One photo in the old South Hills Record shows it on Walton off Churchview.

*Diehl, Adam [[Adam Diehl]] – First Borough Burgess lived 2338 Brownsville Road.

*[[Donahue, Zysk Linda]] - Carrick Community Council Treasurer and community organizer

*Donely, Wm. McClurg [[William McClurg Donely]] – First Borough Engineer.

*Eld, John [[John Eld]] - grandson of [[John J. Fleming]] once lived on [[Valera Street]]. John provided photos of his house.

*[[Englert, Milton S.]] - One of the original landowners and citizens of Baldwin Township, later Carrick Borough. Legend has it that the Carrick area was once called Englertville because of the glass works owned by the Englerts.

*[[Fisher, Dr. Edward]] - CHS class of 1960

*[[Finch, Walter ]] – First Street Commissioner

*[[Fink, Jean]] - Carrick Community Council President, Board Member and Pittsburgh Public School Board Member

*Fleming, John J. [[John J. Fleming]] – industrialist and inventor who lived in Carrick and worked as the chief engineer of Phillips Mining and Manufacturing Company.

*[[Fragasso Bob]] - Financial Advisor

*[[Garnham, Charles W. 'Gus']] - World War II winner of Distinguished Service Cross

*[[Goettler Paul]] - Carrick resident and WWII veteran

*[[Guthoerl Kilroy, Irma]] - long time organist at St. Basil Church

*Haupt, J. A. J. [[J. A. J. Haupt]] – Fifth Burgess

*[[Hazlett, Rev. John]] – Pastor [[Concord Presbyterian Church]] in 1872 starts academy for Higher Education at his home, Oak Grove, on Brownsville Road and corner of Stewart Avenue. Academy was the first school south of the Monongahela River to provide secondary education for older boys and girls.

*[[Herman, JoAnn]] - Jo Ann Herman / Fervent guardian of Carrick neighborhood June 18, 1934 - April 9, 2009

*[[Hagerling, Sidney A.]] - Army Distinguished Service Medal Winner

*[[Hodgson, Naomi]] - Retirement notice

*[[Hyman, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School alumni and legendary Jazz singer

*[[Jankowski, Ron and Barringer, William]] - baseball tryout photo

*[[Jones, Phyliss]] - Carrick High School Alumni Sports Walk of Fame Inductee

*[[Jumbo]] – Motorcycle cop in Carrick Borough in the 1920’s

*Lemon, John [[John Lemon]] – First Borough Solicitor

*[[Lewis, Joseph P.]] - First cashier at Carrick Bank which opened in 1913

*[[Lipinski, Walter]] - Veteran and author

*[[Lucarelli, Louis]] - Vietnam Vet returns article and photo

*[[Karas, Joseph M.]] - article by Joseph M. Karas

*[[Kaskey Ray]] - Sculptor

*[[Koontz, Bob]]

*[[Kloss, Shirley]] - Famous violinist

*[[Kraft, Richard]] - History of his life in Carrick

*Markowitz, Nick [[Nick Markowitz]] – early (1976) Carrick Historian who contributed many works, research and authored dozens of article about Carrick.

*[[McCue, Tim]] - Carrick resident and stock car driver article.

*[[Miners]] - A collection of coal miner photos not of Carrick but possibly a representation of how life was in the coal mines for our former residents.

*[[McClure, William]] - one of Carrick Borough's founding members

*[[Morgan, Al]] - Long time Carrick resident who claims Carrick grew up around him.

*[[Mutchler, Russell]] - Fireman retires article

*Noble, William [[William Noble]] - 1855 sells 100 acres for $45,000 and in 1865 sells 100 acres for $106,000. Probable namesake of Noble's Lane.

*Nusser, John [[John Nusser]] – Third Burgess

*O'Brien, Dr. John [[Dr. John O’Brien]] – named the first US Post Office in this area in 1853 after his home town of Carrick-on-Suir.

*[[Phillips, Anna Jane]] - Daughter of Harriet Duff Phillips and John M. Phillips. Married to Joseph Shuman.

*Phillips, John [[John Phillips]] – Owned a mansion that sat in the middle of current [[Hornaday Road]] and owned 12 acres of land that became known as Phillips Manor.

*Phillips, Harriet Duff [[Harriet Duff Phillips]] – Wife of John M. Phillips, daughter of Dr. Duff. 1913 founded Mothers Club. 1916 founded Brashear Settlement. 1934-1938 President of the PA. Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Pioneer of Women's Health Programs, 1956 Phillips Elementary School named after her father and her. South Side Hospital Board of Directors. Board member of Pittsburgh Board of Education.

*[[Phillips, James]] - one of John Phillips' sons. Photo of property holdings.

*Phillips, John M. [[John M. Phillips]] – nephew of [[John Phillips]], PA Game Commissioner, City of Pittsburgh Councilman, creator of Phillips Park, owned mansion at 2336 Brownsville Road named [[Impton]], conservationist, creator of state parks, instrumental in the creation of the Boy Scouts of America earning the title "Chief Silver Tip" by American Indians who taught and knew him. John M. Phillips was also a naturalist, environmentalist, Boy Scout Founder in Pennsylvania, owner of Phillips Mine and Manufacturing Company. In 1924 President Calvin Cooledge named him chair of a national conference on conservation.

*Phillips' Children [[John M. Phillips’ Children]] – 3 daughters Mrs. Anna Jane Phillips Shuman, Mrs. Mary Phillips Lutz, Mrs. Margaret Phillips Chalfont, 2 sons John M. Phillips, Jr. (Whitehall Borough Councilman), James M. Phillips. Also had 13 grandchildren.

*[[Pikelis, Louis]] - article about no mail for his house

*[[Quel Brothers]] - Five brothers who served together in World War II

*[[Rapp, Janet Vogel]] - Female vocalist of the group [[The Skyliners]].

*[[Readshaw, Harry]] - local businessman and PA State Representative

*Rosenfeld, Melissa [[Melissa Rosenfeld]] - Two articles in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describe Melissa Rosenfeld [[Carrick's 2010 Paint Out]] and [[Art project spruces up Carrick]].

*[[Rudiak, John J.]] - Carrick Community Council President, community organizer, PennDOT Traffic Systems Control Specialist

*[[Rudiak, Natalia A.]] - In 1997 named Carrick High School's Senior of the year. On May 19,2009 Natalia Rudiak becomes the first female City Councilperson to represent District 4 and the first Councilperson from Carrick.

*[[Russell, Robert]] – First Borough Clerk

*[[Sachko, Melody]] - Spelling Bee Champ

*Saits, John [[John Saits]] – First Borough Tax Collector

*Sankey Wm.; Phillips John M.; Benz, Phillip; Hartung, Richard; Dieterle Jacob; Eiler, Henry; Werner,John - [[First Council of Carrick Borough]]

*Sankey, William, Jr. [[William Sankey, Jr.]] – Fourth Burgess

*[[Sankey, Walter]] - Newspaper article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "To Charlotte, with love."

*Schenk, Henry [[Henry Schenk]] – Second Burgess

*[[Seemiller, Danny]] - Danny Seemiller is an American table tennis player. By 1972, he was the number one qualifier on the U.S. World Team. he has won five U.S. Men's Singles Championships (in 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983). He was once ranked #19 in the world.

*[[Scarletelli Family]] - Old photos of the Scarletelli family donated by Bernie Scarletelli

*[[Sexauer, Dr John F.]] - MD Carrick's popular General Practitioner, whose office was above Heinauer's Drug Store on Brownsville Road. Dr Sexauer was the CHS football team doctor in the fifties and sixties. The family resided on Overbrook Blvd, and had 3 children (Sue, Janet, and Jack/John Jr who graduated from CHS in 1960)

*[[Shuty, Betty]] - Local resident

*[[Smithdas, Robert]] - Article about Robert Smithdas

*[[Speicher, Joseph]] – Carrick Historian in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

*[[Sprenkle, Wm. H.]] – President Principal of Schools from 1909

*Stanford, J. S. [[J. S. Stanford]] – First Postmaster of the Carrick Post Office in December 23, 1853

*Stolzenbach, C. H. [[C. H. Stolzenbach]] – First President of Carrick Bank

*[[Stolzenbach, A. H.]] - First Borough Treasurer,

*Tepe, Marie Brose [[Marie Brose Tepe]] - Also known as "French Mary"

*[[Trautmann, Albert R.]] - Vietnam veteran article

*Trott, Ellsworth C. [[Ellsworth C. Trott]] – Last Burgess of Carrick Borough 1927.

*[[Urban, Bill]] - Artist

*[[Urbaniak, John]] - Painter

*[[Vooletich Family]] - article describing orthodox dinner at the Vooletich home

*[[Warble Alexandra]] - Carrick High School 2008 Extra Effort Awardee

*[[Warble Family]] - The Warble family is an amazing asset to the Carrick Community

*[[Washburn, Dr Alan]] - distinguished engineer and professor, youngest child of educators Dr Merle and Lois Washburn, (John/Jack and Carolyn were siblings, all 3 were graduates of Carrick HS). The family resided on Almont Street.

*[[Wightman, William]] - One first settlers of Carrick, then St. Clair Township.

*[[Wigman Family]] - Photos and story about the Wigman Family who owned and built the historic [[Wigman House]].

*Wilson, James [[James Wilson]] – First Carrick Borough Post Master

*Wilson, John - [[John Wilson - Wilson's Farm]] – was one of the original settlers of this area. A revolutionary war soldier who was granted land for service in the Revolutionary war and operated a farm from current Biscayne to Parkfield to Route 51. Overbrook Boulevard was once called Wilson’s Alley.

*[[Wilson, Robert]] - one of the first settlers in Carrick [[Wilson Warranty Map]]

*[[Windstein, Robert]] - Wins award photo article

*[[Wine, Michelle]] - one of the first recipients of a liver transplant with donations from the community.

*[[Woshner, Michael]] - Carrick Community Volunteer

*[[Wright, Margaret Persosky]] - Young Carrick mother died on Easter Day 1930 after being beaten and molested on the shores of the Allegheny River. Murder never found.

== Schools ==

*[[Desegregation Thesis by William D. Rutherford]] - A desegregation thesis by William D. Rutherford regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools

*[[Carrick High School]]- The first graduating class was in 1926.
**[[Carrick High School 1939 Yearbook]] - Full copy of 1939 Carrick High School yearbook
**[[Carrick High School Twentieth Anniversary Edition 1926-1946]] - A special edition of the school's yearbooks. Especially interesting is the listing in photos and descriptions of those young men who died in the service.
** [[Carrick High School in the News]] - articles regarding Carrick High School.
** [[Carrick High School Sports]] - articles regarding Carrick High School Sports.
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1926-1976]] - newspaper photo and photo of reunion
** [[Carrick High School Reunion 1985]] - booklet presented at the reunion
** [[Carrick Alumni]] - 2013 Honors Alumni

*[[Carrick High School Reunion the first 75 years]]
**[[Carrick High School 1920s]]
**[[Carrick High School Started at Quentin Roosevelt School in 1923]]
**[[Carrick High School Opened in 1924]]
**[[Carrick High School 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School 1926 Football Team]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of January 1926]]
***[[Carrick High School Class of June 1926]]
**[[Carrick High School 1927]]
**[[Carrick High School 1928]]
**[[Carrick High School 1929]]
**[[Carrick High School 1930s]]
**[[Carrick High School Reunion Photo 1931-1981]]
**[[Carrick High School graduate sang with Glen Miller]]
**[[Carrick High School 1941]]
**[[Carrick High School Class of 41 Fight Song]]
**[[Carrick High School Last School Board]]
**[[Carrick High School Bill Lawrence '45 Spitfire Band]]
**[[Carrick High School Alma Mater Correction]]
**[[Carrick High School Jim Reiter]]
**[[Carrick High School 54 students died WWII list]]

*[[Concord Elementary School]] – current location is the fifth location. Originally built on the back of Concord Church as one room and became known as Concord. Second location at Brownsville Road and Agnew Avenue, Third location on Agnew Avenue and Dowling. Forth location on Carrick Avenue. Fifth and final location on Brownsville Road and Biscayne Avenue.

** [[Concord Chronicles]] - Concord Chronicles is a newsletter for parents and students of Concord Elementary School.

** [[Concord Elementary School News]] - Articles about events at Concord Elementary School.

*[[First school in Carrick]] – name unknown but reference is made to a school in a house at Brownsville Road and Wynoka Street.

*[[St. Basil’s School and Church]] – Originally located on Cherryhill Street at the site of Roosevelt School. Church was built at the current location in 1907.

*[[Roosevelt Elementary School]] - The original was located on [[The Boulevard]] and although rebuilt in the 1950s, it is still an elementary school. The original was named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Roosevelt Quentin Roosevelt] [[Quentin Roosevelt Elementary School]] after President Theodore Roosevelt's son who died in the First World War and was one of the original pilots who were buried in France during the war and remains there.

*[[Union High School]] - The Borough of Knoxville was the location of this high school. It was attended by the Borough of Carrick residents before Carrick High School was built.

== Sports ==

*[[1912 Baseball Team]] - Can you identify these people in this photo?

*[[Bowling]] - Can you identify the places and the people in these photos?

*[[Carrick Community Athletic Association]] - [http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=ccaabaseball Carrick Baseball Link]

*[[Carrick Crackerjacks]]

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Basketball]] - Basketball Team

*[[Carrick Eagles 1520 Football]] - Football Team

*[[Carrick Girls Softball Champions]]

*[[Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church Baseball Team 1923]] - winner of The Press Carrick Church League Championship of 1923

*[[Goose Goslings]]

*[[Pony League Champions]] - 1953 photo of Carrick's first Pony League Team and Champions

*[[Sports Teams]] - Amateur and Church affiliated teams in Carrick

== Streetcars ==

* [[Carrick Streetcar Ordinance]] - "If a streetcar picked up a fireman on the way to a fire, streetcar was not allowed to stop except to pick up another fireman."

* [[Horse Trolley]] - last run article

* [[Phillips Park Traction Park]] - Current Phillips Park becomes a "traction park." Previously known as Dilly's Grove and Carrick Park. Purchased as a Community Park. Dedicated at a great 4th of July celebration in 1914.

* [[Trolleys in Carrick]] - This page contains photos and articles about trolleys in Carrick and adjoining neighborhoods

* [[Trolley 59 Carrick]] - Double ended trolley operated in the 1920's during rush hour and turned around on a short track spur at the corner of Brownsville Road and Crailo Street.

* [[Trolley Barns]] - Carrick Shopping Center where the current Foodland is located was a brick trolley barn, demolished in the 1950's and the end of the line at one time.

== Who are you ==

*[[Who are you]] - A collection of photos with no description and need an explanation.

*[[Polish Mill Worker Tag]] - Anyone know John Zaine, Polish mill worker in 1919?

*[[Unknown Tintype Photo]] - unknown location

== Notice ==

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== Mr. Dick Kraft donated these two photos of the impressive "The Press Carrick Church League Championship of 1923." ==

His father Karl O. Kraft, Sr. pitched for the championship team. The only other name of a team member Mr. Kraft remembers is Pete Haupt. His grandfather, Otto H. Kraft, might have also been the team's manager. He is asking if anyone has team photos please write to carrickhistory@gmail.com.

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The man far left is the Reverend Messner of the Redeemer Lutheran Church. The man wearing the black sweater is my grandfather Otto H. Kraft.

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My dad, Karl O. Kraft, is the last player on the far right.

== Mr. Harold Booth submitted the photo of the 1923 Lutheran Church of the Redeemer baseball team and the trophy.==

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EDDIE WIMLER, "The Fairhaven Terror"- No boxer epitomized the image of the working-class Pittsburgh prizefighter more than this sturdy slugger. Born in Germany, Wimler came to Pittsburgh as a child and was raised in a now-defunct neighborhood known as Fairhaven.

A miner by trade, Wimler loved to fight, often engaging in bouts after working back-breaking ten and twelve-hour shifts in the mines. Active from 1910 to 1924, he campaigned for years for a title shot without success, despite going the distance with men such as Memphis Pal Moore and champion Joe Lynch. In nearly two hundred fights he was never knocked out and took part in memorable rivalries with fellow Pittsburgh fighters Dick Loadman (seven bouts) and Patsy Brannigan (nine bouts), in addition to facing noted contenders Johnny Ray, Harry Palmer, and Chick Suggs.

In 1927 a huge benefit at the Southside Market House was held for Wimler, who had been crippled in a mining accident and had a family to feed. The outpouring of support was so enormous that the number of bouts for the evening had to be limited to thirteen. Among the participants were old foes Johnny Ray, Patsy Brannigan, Johnny Kirk, Eddie Carver, Johnny Fundy and Mickey Rodgers. A great deal of money was raised to assist Eddie, who had bravely given his all in the ring for many years. The people never forgot.

He passed away on June 29, 1960, at age 69. —

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== Obituary: Raymond W. Weitzel / TV cameraman with a knack for getting the shot ==

Jan. 14, 1936 -- March 23, 2019

Janice Crompton
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
jcrompton@post-gazette.com

A longtime television news cameraman and photographer at WPXI-TV, Raymond Weitzel had a special technique for gaining entry to places that would be off limits to most journalists: his unforgettable smile.
“I will never forget his smile,” said WPXI anchorman David Johnson. “He had the most beautiful smile. He would never be so upset or angry that his smile wouldn’t pop up.”
Mr. Weitzel, 83, of Overbrook, died March 23 from complications caused by a recent fall.
Raised in Oakland, Mr. Weitzel graduated from Peabody High School in 1955 before enlisting in the U.S. Army.
He served for two years in Honolulu before going to work as a laboratory technician, first at the University of Pittsburgh, then at One Day Film Service, a former film developing company in Wilkinsburg.
The business was one of the few in the Pittsburgh region that developed color film in the early 1960s, said Mr. Weitzel’s son Bill Weitzel.
“When WPXI was changing from black and white to color film they came to look into the machinery and how it worked,” said the younger Mr. Weitzel, of Scott. “They asked if anyone there was interested in a job. And my dad said, ‘Yeah, me!’”
His father went to work at the television station in 1965 in the film processing lab and later became video editor.
“Then, he taught himself to be a photographer, so when there was an opening he transitioned to that,” Bill Weitzel said.
By the time Mr. Johnson came to the station in 1985, Mr. Weitzel was among the best and most knowledgeable cameramen in the business, he said.
“He was one of the photographers that you would choose when you were able to,” Mr. Johnson recalled. “He was a veteran who knew the streets, knew where to park, how to talk to people. He was one of those guys who kind of showed me the ropes in Pittsburgh street reporting.”
Despite being self-taught, Mr. Weitzel was a savvy professional, Mr. Johnson said.
“He was a great guy and a very, very good photographer,” he said. “That knowledge was so important and in a tight situation where time was of the essence, it felt good to be with someone who knew what he was doing.”
Mr. Weitzel’s charming manner opened many doors over the 35 years that he worked at WPXI, before his retirement in 2000.
“He was tall and handsome and he always had this tan in the middle of winter even,” Mr. Johnson said. “He knew how to charmingly talk to a cop guarding a crime scene or whoever, to find out what was happening. He had a way of being able to do that, and it always impressed me.”
But Mr. Weitzel’s work wasn’t always pleasant, his son recalled.
“He saw some stuff,” Bill Weitzel said, including the aftermath of the USAir Flight 427 crash in Hopewell, Beaver County, in September 1994. All 132 people on board died.
“He was one of the first people on the scene and said it was one of the worst things he’d ever seen,” his son said.
In the summer of 1959, Mr. Weitzel met Kathleen Nee on a blind date and the couple married just two months later, in August 1959. Mrs. Weitzel died in 2015.
After he retired, Mr. Weitzel spent many days on the links at the South Park Golf Course.
“My grandfather loved to golf and used to take my dad to the course,” Bill Weitzel said. “My dad used to joke that he started golfing when he was three years old and never got any better.”
His father was a great storyteller who loved spending time with his family, his son said.
“He was a good dad,” he said. “He was one of my best friends.”
Mr. Johnson said he could vouch for Mr. Weitzel’s sense of humor and his credentials as an authentic Pittsburgher.
“The first place I moved when I came here was Highland Park and Ray used to joke with me, saying ‘You want yourself to sound fancy. That’s actually [East Liberty],’” Mr. Johnson said, laughing at the memory. “He’d say, ‘What’s the zip code?’ and I’d say, ‘You know the zip code!’ and he’d say, ‘That’s S’Liberty!’ And of course, he always pronounced it ‘S’Liberty.’”
But the teasing didn’t end there.
“If I ran into him later, he would say, ‘You still living in S’Liberty?’” Mr. Johnson said, laughing.
Along with his son, Mr. Weitzel is survived by a granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his sons Raymond and Michael, and his sister Peggy Grance.
His funeral was held Friday.
Janice Crompton: jcrompton@post-gazette.com

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WEITZEL RAYMOND W.
Age 83, of Overbrook passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 23, 2019 in Allegheny General Hospital. Beloved husband of the late Kathleen (Nee) Weitzel; father of William "Bill" (Susan) Weitzel, the late Raymond (Sheri) Weitzel and the late Michael J. Weitzel; grandfather of Autumn Weitzel. Raymond retired after 35 years as a news photographer for WPXI.

OVERBROOK HISTORY

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==Natalia Rudiak attended Concord Elementary School, Sterrett Classical Academy and Carrick High School. In 1997 she was named Carrick High School's Senior of the year. ==

== In 1997, Natalia was awarded the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) International [http://www.afscme.org/news/press-room/press-releases/1997/afscme-family-scholarship-recipients-announced]. ==

TUESDAY, APRIL 08, 1997
Washington, D.C. —
Ten winners have been chosen to receive $2,000 college scholarships by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO. The winners are:

Raymond Franklin Yorktown Heights, NY
Erica Gamble Detroit, MI
Nathan Graumenz Vandalia, IL
Irene Ledee Brooklyn, NY
Amanda Nobel Eugene, OR
'''Natalia Rudiak Pittsburgh, PA'''
John Thomas West Hartford, CT
Lindsey Tuominen Duluth, MN
Julie Vasuthasawat Los Angeles, CA
Manuel Williams Houston Texas

The winners were selected from over 1,500 applicants nationwide. Candidates competed by submitting their high school transcripts, SAT or ACT scores, and a 1,500-word essay on the topic "What AFSCME membership has meant to our family." They will receive a grant of $2,000 annually, which can be renewed for up to four years for full-time degree course work at an accredited college or university.
AFSCME, the nation's largest public employee and health care workers union, has long been committed to advancing higher education, from sponsoring scholarships to supporting federal legislation that would improve access to and affordability of higher education. At the local level, AFSCME affiliates continue this mission of trying to improve the lives of America's youth.

==After graduating from Carrick High School in 1997 she attended [http://www.gwu.edu/ George Washington University] and in her Junior year (2000) attended the [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx London School of Economics in London, England]. Natalia graduated with a George Washington University BS degree in International Studies in 2001.==

==During her Senior year she interned for Senator Joseph Lieberman:==

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Aug 8, 2001

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==After her [http://www.coro.org/site/c.muI0LcMOJpE/b.2087419/k.BF01/Home.htm Coro Fellowship] she spent a year organizing a symposium for an international womens group in Malasia and spent several months in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal Dakar, Senegal] teaching English.==

== [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07154/790550-37.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article] ==

The Gap Year: More students broaden their experience of the world
Sunday, June 03, 2007

By Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Go sea kayaking in the Sea of Cortez, picking up leadership skills along the way. Explore historic villages on the Germany-Poland border while becoming fluent in German. Soak up Japanese traditions for a year while teaching English as a second language, or live in Senegal, West Africa, learning about Muslim culture.

We're not parroting a travel brochure here, just listing how several recent Pittsburgh-area high school graduates spent the year between high school and college -- or, in one case, the year after graduating from college and plunging into the job market -- as a way of figuring out what to do with their lives.

The British call it the "gap year," and while it's been a staple of upper-class life in that country -- Prince William spent a year in the Army in Belize and volunteering in southern Chile; Prince Harry spent his in Australia and then in Africa, where he worked in an orphanage. And within the Jewish community, Israel is a frequent destination after high school and before college.

Today, though, more and more students in the United States across the socio-economic spectrum are opting to take a break from the competitive treadmill of their high school years to travel, volunteer or work before entering college. Some of them use the time to burnish their resumes so they can reapply to a college that might have rejected them previously, while others want to immerse themselves in another culture altogether. Others need to make money, and still others just want time to think.

While no statistics are available, colleges are seeing signs of a definite trend.

"Are there more students taking a year off first today than a decade ago? Yes," said Betsy Porter, director of admissions at the University of Pittsburgh. Students today "have more acceptable options, places to go, things to do that provide real value, and in some ways, the world has opened up even to 17- and 18-year-olds."

Ben Schweers, 22, explored the Mexican wilderness for three months in a program run by the National Outdoor Leadership School, which uses outdoor activities to teach leadership skills. After graduating at the top of his class at Mt. Lebanon High School, Mr. Schweers had found himself spending the first two or three days at Ohio's College of Wooster in the fall of 2002 "wondering why I was there. It wasn't that Wooster wasn't the place for me, but college wasn't where I thought I should be."

Luckily, his parents were understanding, so after returning home, getting a job in a clothing store and volunteer coaching at his old high school, he enrolled in the outdoor leadership program, which was "life-changing" for him, said his mother, Merrily Schweers.

Besides fueling his interest in the environment, the rigorous but structured program, which included hiking, kayaking and sailing in Mexico's wilderness, allowed Mr. Schweers to hone his ability to lead small groups of people -- skills he'd never really had a chance to show in a classroom.

Another local student, Jacob Bryant of Highland Park, spent a summer in Japan before his senior year at Schenley High School and, then, after being accepted at Harvard, realized he wasn't ready to go to college.

Harvard didn't necessarily expect him to be ready, either: It sent him a response card that asked if he wanted to matriculate in fall of 2002 or the fall of 2003. Mr. Bryant returned to Japan for a year to teach English as a second language at a church-based school before heading to Cambridge, Mass.

It was an experience he wouldn't have traded for anything. Besides learning Japanese, which he'd studied since his middle school days at Frick International Studies Academy, "Personally,it made me more able to handle strange situations. I think if more college students had a broader perspective on the world and an eagerness to connect, that might be a healthy thing."

Gap years can be expensive, running as much as $10,000 to $12,000, along with extras like health insurance, immunizations and other medical costs.

But it's not an option only for the affluent. Mr. Bryant financed the trip himself by sending out fund-raising letters to members of his church, Bellefield Presbyterian, and raised $5,500 -- of which he spent only $3,500 by sharing living quarters in Yokohama (he donated the remainder of his money to the Japanese church). "It was not a glamorous life," he laughed. "I worked really hard, and I was kind of writing my own curriculum and teaching it at the same time."

'''Sometimes, the gap year comes after graduating from college and before choosing a career, as in the case of Natalia Rudiak, 27. A graduate of Carrick High School, Ms. Rudiak hit the ground running as a freshman at George Washington University, but after graduating in 2001, "I couldn't decide what I wanted to do."'''

'''After a nine-month public policy fellowship with the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in its Pittsburgh office, she went to New York City for a year to work for an international women's health organization.'''

'''Then, she went to live in Senegal for eight months.'''

'''"It was always something I wanted to do," Ms. Rudiak said. "When I was in college, I was around a lot of people who had lived in other countries, and I wanted to try it but wasn't sure what the focus should be."'''

'''After doing some research, she discovered a program that placed Americans as English teachers overseas and, after raising $2,500 from family and friends, soon found herself in West Africa as a teacher's assistant in a Senegalese American bilingual school.'''

'''"I wanted to work in international development, but while I was there, shortly after 9/11, I had an epiphany. I realized that if I wanted to make changes in the world, I'd have to contribute to making changes at home first," said Ms. Rudiak, who went on to get her graduate degree from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and is currently working at Deloitte Consulting LLP.'''

'''She also noted that while studying abroad her junior year at the London School of Economics, "almost everyone had done a gap year or something like that. Even my roommate, who came from a blue-collar background, managed to scrape some money together and travel around India before going back to school."'''

Still, taking time off has its pitfalls, Mr. Bryant noted. After a year spent in the real world, that "made it harder to go back into academia. At Harvard, I felt like I was out of the rhythm of studying, so maybe, for some people, there is something valuable about going right into college."

Indeed, noted Ms. Porter, a "gap year" is "not a universal answer for every student. Some kids are just emotionally ready to move from high school to college, and like to move in lockstep with the friends they make their freshman year."

There haven't been a lot of studies on the impact of delaying entry into college, but in the 1990s, researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics found it can decrease a student's chances of completing a degree.

But Holly Bull, who heads the Center for Interim Programs, a consulting service that helped place Mr. Schweers and other students in "gap year" programs, said that there are just as many studies showing that recent high school graduates need more time to mature.

"It's a feverish process getting into college and when they do get in, they often don't have a sense of what to focus on," she said, adding that often "what you see the first year in college are kids floundering around, changing majors, trying to fit in, drinking. Freshman year can be an expensive party."

Her company, based in Cambridge, Mass., and Princeton, N.J., has access to thousands of unusual programs all over the world, from the healing arts to social services, from volunteering at a Mexican orphanage to construction projects in Tibet.

In Mr. Schweers' case, after coming home to Mt. Lebanon and working a summer job as a landscape assistant, he applied to Skidmore College, where he graduated with a degree in environmental studies several weeks ago. He was recently selected from among more than 1,000 applicants to be one of 25 paid interns with GreenCorps, the nationally acclaimed Field School for Environmental Organizing.

Both he and his parents believe that his experience at an outdoor leadership school played a significant role in determining where he is today.

"It made me more comfortable with that transition into college, which is often very rocky, and made me more comfortable with myself."

First published on June 1, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Mackenzie Carpenter can be reached at mcarpenter@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1949.

As published in the South Pittsburgh Reporter, Sunday, JUL 06, 2008:

== Carrick resident wins Heinz School award ==

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Natalia A. Rudiak

On May 21, 2006, the Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management held the 34th commencement ceremony in Oakland, where Natalia A. Rudiak of Carrick received a Master of Science Degree, with Distinction, in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM).

Ms. Rudiak was nominated by her colleagues to receive the 2006 Barbara Jenkins Award. The award is given in memory of Barbara Jenkins (MS 1987) to a graduating student who has demonstrated service to the Heinz School and made significant contributions to the quality of life for the residents in Pittsburgh.

Her colleagues and professors noted Ms. Rudiak’s involvement in “Run Baby Run,” a campaign to recruit female political candidates in Southwestern Pennsylvania. (According to the DC-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Pennsylvania ranks 47th in female political participation among the United States, and until May 2006, the Southwestern Pennsylvania region had no female state representatives.)

She has organized youth-oriented voting initiatives for “Everyone Vote” and the League of Young Voters, as well as several social events and political forums at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also is co-creator of the Website www.iheartpgh.com. In the May 2006 primary election, Ms. Rudiak was elected to the 29th Ward Democratic Committee.

The Heinz School is known internationally for its educational curriculum and research. According to their Website, the school’s purpose is to “understand the causes of critical social problems and to train men and women through masters and doctoral programs to use new knowledge and technology to bring about positive change.”

The program emphasizes economics, statistics, information science, and organizational behavior to study how public policies affect society. Heinz strives to support “intelligent action” in non-profit, public, and private organizations, and counts 5,000 graduates from all over the United States and the world.

In the fall, Ms. Rudiak will begin employment with Deloitte Consulting, where she will work to improve the efficacy and efficiency of public institutions and governments.

She is the daughter of John and Helena Rudiak of Carrick, and the granddaughter of the late Joseph and Regina Rudiak of the South Side, and Lucyna and the late Dionizy Kusiolek of Przyjma, Poland. She plans to stay in Carrick.

== Franco Harris and Natalia at a recent 2008 Generation Obama event ==

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== Natalia announces her campaign for District 4 City Council ==

== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhgpXB0ke0&feature=related Youtube video] ==

== Natalia addresses issues in District 4 ==

== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORuPqyMtxg Youtube video] ==

== Natalia's campaign video for City Council District 4 ==

==[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cfE71K921U&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fprofile%2Ephp%3Fid%3D507756253&feature=player_embedded Youtube video]==

== [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09126/967888-192.stm Pittsburgh Post Gazette Endorsement] ==

== Rudiak in District 4: She's the Democrats' strongest choice for council ==

Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

As grudge matches go, the one between Pittsburgh Councilman Jim Motznik and former state Rep. Michael Diven over the district judge seat in the South Hills is a doozy. It is also distracting. Consequently, Mr. Motznik, a two-term incumbent, is not seeking re-election to council.

This means that the race to find a Democratic nominee for the District 4 council seat serving Bon Air, Overbrook, Carrick, Brookline, Beechview and parts of Banksville and Mount Washington is wide open for the first time in years. The three men and one woman competing in the May 19 primary (there is no Republican on the ballot) have qualities that reflect the best of the communities they're striving to represent.

Patrick Reilly, 27, the community outreach coordinator for state Rep. Chelsa Wagner, has the backing of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee. The Overbrook resident is a graduate of Seton-La Salle High School and the University of Pittsburgh, where he majored in communications. He's energetic, smart and understands the value of networking. Like his rivals, Mr. Reilly promises that economic development in the struggling business districts of the South Hills will be his top priority.

Anthony Coghill, 42, a Beechview roofing contractor, is no stranger to the race. This is his third run for the District 4 council seat. He says neighborhood businesses have deteriorated during Mr. Motznik's tenure. An active member of the Beechview Merchants' Association, Mr. Coghill is the founder of one of the largest roofing businesses in Pittsburgh.

At 66, Richard Weaver, a Brookline resident, has seen many council members come and go over the years. He is a city demolition officer who used to do code enforcement for Pittsburgh's building inspection department. Like his colleagues, Mr. Weaver believes reviving business districts and lowering crime are the keys to turning District 4 around.

Natalia Rudiak, 29, of Carrick is well-known as someone who can be found at community meetings throughout the district on any given night. She is active in a half-dozen neighborhood organizations committed to improving the local quality of life.

The self-employed consultant was a Coro leadership fellow and an employee of Deloitte Consulting. Ms. Rudiak is a graduate of Carrick High School and George Washington University. She has a master's in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University and has studied at the London School of Economics.

Ms. Rudiak's candidacy is timely because her academic background is integral to both her community activism and political aspirations. She's combined a natural bent toward public policy with a compassion that keeps her rooted in the community where she grew up.

Because of her background with nonprofits and community groups, Ms. Rudiak is poised to bring about much-needed revival of the business districts. She's comfortable with complexity and understands that District 4 is part of a larger city mosaic. She's progressive, hard-working and temperamentally ready for the rigors of the office.

Thanks to her hard work in District 4, she's won the endorsements of diverse groups representing teachers, environmentalists, government employees and food workers. Add to this list the endorsement of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For District 4 Democrats on May 19, Natalia Rudiak is the best choice hands down.

First published on May 6, 2009 at 12:00 am

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== Natalia's Victory Speech, May 19, 2009. Natalia Rudiak becomes the first female City Councilwoman of District 4 and the first Councilperson from Carrick. ==

== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmwKmcCwhM Youtube video] ==

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==John Fournier, Campaign Manager, and Natalia on Primary Election Victory Night ==

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== Natalia thanks all who contributed their time and efforts. ==

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== The Victory Room Crowd ==

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== The Victory Room Crowd ==

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== Neighbors, friends and relatives join in the Victory ==

== Natalia and Pete Schmidt, Campaign Assistant Staff ==
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== Political newcomer Rudiak brings fresh voice to Pittsburgh council ==

== By Jeremy Boren ==

== TRIBUNE-REVIEW ==

== Monday, June 15, 2009 ==

==[http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_629539.html Pittsburgh Tribune Review Article] ==

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Natalia Rudiak has old-school Pittsburgh roots, but supporters say her politics are nothing of the sort.

"There were a lot of people that said I couldn't do it," said Rudiak, 29, of Carrick, who won a primary race for City Council last month. "I don't know what it was, if it was my age or if it was my gender, but they just kind of looked at me and didn't take me seriously."

Rudiak defeated three other Democrats to replace District 4 City Councilman Jim Motznik, who has been in office since 2001 and is leaving to run for district judge. With no Republican candidate on the November ballot, Rudiak, a graduate of George Washington and Carnegie Mellon universities, is set to become council's youngest member.

Rudiak has worked as a business strategy and operations consultant for Deloitte Consulting in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg; a campaign organizer for the nonprofit Everybody VOTE; a communications assistant for Family Care International in New York; and an English teacher in Dakar, Senegal.

She lives in a three-bedroom, 100-year-old former convent that she spent two years renovating on Brownsville Road.

"I like to think that I actually saved this house from being carved up into different apartments," she said.

When she's not working on the house, Rudiak, a dog-lover, occasionally baby-sits pets for friends. She also plays piano, flute and sax, calling on musical abilities she says came from her grandfather, who played drums in The Seven Rudiak Brothers Orchestra.

A black-and-white photo of drummer Joseph Rudiak sits in the sun room of her home, which is 300 feet from Concord Elementary, where she went to school. Her parents, John and Helena, live a few blocks away.

"It's about time that somebody from this side of Route 51 wins an election and gives us some representation," said Carol Anthony, 67, acting president of the Overbrook Community Council who campaigned for Rudiak. "I wasn't sure someone so independent and fresh-faced could win."

That independence could make for an uneasy political relationship with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, who said he doesn't know Rudiak well. He supported Anthony Coghill, one of her opponents in the primary. Kevin Acklin, an independent running against Ravenstahl in the November election, supported her campaign.

"I see her as less a politician and more as a young person from the city who wants to give back," said Acklin, who donated $600 to Rudiak's campaign and hired her campaign manager to help direct his mayoral bid.

Judy Demma, 56, of Brookline said she always votes but doesn't get involved in political campaigns. She made an exception for Rudiak, a family friend.

Demma believes Rudiak will work to fill empty storefronts in Brookline and Beechview with businesses and bring a beat cop to patrol Brookline. Her lack of political baggage is an asset, Demma said.

"She doesn't owe anybody anything."

Coghill said he thinks voters saw Rudiak as a political outsider, which helped her in an area tired of partisan bickering. District 4 includes Brookline, Beechview, Overbrook, Carrick and Bon Air.

"She kind of came out of nowhere," said Coghill, who narrowly lost to Motznik in 2005.

Rudiak said she will focus on fulfilling basic constituent services: fixing streets, clearing vacant lots and demolishing condemned buildings. She plans to take a ride in a city plow truck. Her biggest challenge, she said, will be reversing population decline.

"I grew up in this community. A lot of my high school friends have moved away. A lot of family friends have moved away. I see almost a hollowing out of our city," Rudiak said.

== November 3, 2009 General Election vote - 5,209 ==

== 40 Under 40 ==

== [http://www.wqed.org/mag/features/1109/40-under-40.php Pittsburgh Magazine Article November 2009] ==

== By Jonathan Wander ==

Photography by Laura Petrilla

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They come from all walks of life, with a diversity of backgrounds, professions and community-service passions that speak to the richness that is young, professional Pittsburgh. This is our 11th annual 40 Under 40, a celebration of 40 inspirational, successful, generous men and women from our region, all under age 40, who represent the best in Pittsburgh's present and future.

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Natalia Rudiak » 29 » Management consultant, Civic Capital Consulting Collaborative » Natalia Rudiak is a management consultant with Civic Capital Consulting Collaborative, a group that helps nonprofit organizations and community groups create and implement concrete plans for growth and collaboration. Rudiak, who is a candidate for Pittsburgh City Council, is an active member of South Pittsburgh Neighborhood Forum and has helped individuals and groups share information and work together using technology. She is also a member of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, vice president of Carrick Community Council, co-founder of the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society and co-founder of the popular blog IHeartPGH.com (regularly featured on the WDVE "Friday Morning Show").

== This is the official Proclamation by the City of Pittsburgh City Council honoring the recipients of the 2009 award. ==

[http://pittsburgh.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=643986&GUID=D270A073-A720-47D2-A1B9-E090CA3B9E04&Options=ID|Text|&Search=rudiak Click here for City of Pittsburgh Legislation link.]

WHEREAS, on November 6, 2009, the 40 Under 40 Awards will be presented by the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP) and Pittsburgh Magazine; and
WHEREAS, PUMP was founded in September 1995 to advance issues affecting young and young-thinking people in the City, and strives to engage the young professional in issues involving attraction and retention of youth in Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, Pittsburgh Magazine, which began as a local program guide and arts and culture magazine, is now the leading city and regional magazine, focusing on the Pittsburgh region’s lifestyles, arts and culture, fashion, and growth and development; and
WHEREAS, for the eleventh year, PUMP and Pittsburgh Magazine will honor the following forty people under the age of forty who are making this region a better place to live:

Khalif Ali
Regina Anderson
Armen Arevian, Ph.D.
Danielle Baco
Erin Baker
Kelly A. Barcic
Charlie Batch
Mary C. Burke, Ph.D.
Carlos T. Carter
Robert Chambers, II
Dana Davis
Jennifer DeFazio
Victor Dozzi, Jr.
Matthew Erb
Cara Erskine
Rachel Filippini
Marissa Gallagher
Dennis Geary
Deborah Gilboa, M.D.
Tyra Good
Bob Grayson
Justin Gunther
Daisy Klaber
Robert Daniel Lavelle
Felix Brandon Lloyd
Allyson Lowe, Ph.D.
Mayada Mansour
Sylvia McCoy
Piyush Seth
Jason W. Ross
'''Natalia Rudiak'''
Luke Skurman
Janera Solomon
Heather Starr Fiedler, Ph.D.
Melissa Swauger, Ph.D.
Steven M. Toprani
Kristy Trautmann
Stephanie P. Walker
Robert Wilson
Barrett Ivory Wood, M.D.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby commends and thanks PUMP and Pittsburgh Magazine and congratulates the recipients of the 40 under 40 awards; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby declares November 6, 2009 “40 Under 40 Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.

SPONSORED BY COUNCILMAN WILLIAM PEDUTO

CO-SPONSORED BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT DOUGLAS SHIELDS AND COUNCILMEMBERS REV. RICKY V. BURGESS, PATRICK DOWD, DARLENE M. HARRIS, BRUCE A. KRAUS, JIM MOTZNIK, TONYA D. PAYNE AND THERESA KAIL-SMITH

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== John (Father), Natalia, and Helena (mother) ==

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== Natalia and Matt Merriman-Preston, Campaign Manager ==

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== Dr. Barbara Rudiak, Aunt, and Natalia ==

== [http://nataliarudiak.com/natalia-takes-office/ Natalia Takes Office!] ==

== January 4, 2010, City Council Chambers, Natalia becomes the first female Counciperson of District 4 ==

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Pittsburgh City Councilmember Natalia Rudiak was officially sworn in today at a ceremony in Council Chambers. In an uplifting inaugural address, she called for a civic re-awakening in Pittsburgh to aide revitalization in the neighborhoods.

Citing the tough economic times that have gripped the nation and her campaign commitment to bring more investments to Pittsburgh’s Southern neighborhoods, Rudiak asked her fellow Councilmembers to, “tackle these issues with a zeal that is unmatched and a vigor that is unparalleled.”

Councilmember Rudiak, drawing on her own experience as a community leader in district 4, also called on Pittsburghers to get more involved by “[interfacing] with City government, so we all can take ownership of it and start organizing for our communities.”

She continued:

All across this country, big cities are hurting too, just like Pittsburgh. Cuts in state revenue, crumbling infrastructure, neighborhood de-stabilization—these are national problems. But the City who solves them first will become America’s next great urban center—our nation’s next great story of renewal, of change, and of hope. And so, we must tackle these issues with a zeal that is unmatched and a vigor that is unparalleled.

Councilmember Rudiak was elected after capturing more than 98% of the vote in the November general election. In May, the Carrick Democrat won a three way primary to secure her party’s nomination. A graduate of George Washington University, Councilmember Rudiak holds a masters degree in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to her election, she was an active community leader and business owner in the Pittsburgh’s southern neighborhoods.

== Full Text of Inaugural Remarks: ==

'''A Call to Action: Councilmember Natalia Rudiak Inaugural Remarks'''

Today, the City of Pittsburgh, as it does every two years, begins a new journey with new leadership on deck and a new course for our future. For me, this journey began more than a year and a half ago, with an empty campaign account, a few volunteers, and a lot of determination.

But it really began with my family. My parents, Helena and John, my Aunt Barbara Rudiak and my Uncle Mike Rudiak. You have always supported me, but your commitment to me, to the campaign, and to the City of Pittsburgh blew everyone away and I cannot imagine having done this without you. Thank you so much.

I also want to thank the members of my family who couldn’t be here today. For those of you who don’t know, my mother is from Poland, she was born there. My grandmother, who is 79 years old today, barely finished second grade before our family’s village was occupied by the Nazis and she was forced to drop out of school. She could never imagine, and still cannot fathom, that her granddaughter is standing here, as the first woman elected to represent Pittsburgh City Council District 4. And although my family is an ocean away, I know that they are with us in spirit.

In many ways, my family embodies the essential Pittsburgh story—we came from far away, looking for a new life and new opportunities. We struggled to work and save and make ends meet, toiled in the steel mills and the coal mines of Pennsylvania, and built this city from the ground up, always thinking of our children, and our children’s children.

My loved ones, and the experiences and values they have instilled in me are my compass, they are my guide through tough times, and they have given me the incredible foundation and support that have brought me here today.

I love you all, and I thank you so very much. I am blessed.

I also want to thank my staff for their hard work over the last year, and all of those who supported me including the SEIU, UFCW, Laborers, PFT, the Sierra Club, Stonewall Democrats, Young Democrats and many more…you know who you are and I thank you!

I want to thank all of the members of Council for your gracious advice and support during my transition. I have spoken with each one of you, and your guidance has been invaluable to me and my staff during this time. It has been support that I will not soon forget, and I thank you.

To Mayor Ravenstahl, the local delegation to the Pennsylvania Legislature, our County wide elected officials, and the invaluable City workers—from department directors all the way to road crews—I have enjoyed working with you through my time as a community leader and councilmember in transition and I look forward to working closely with you in the future.

On the campaign, we started small, but dreamt big. From our tiny office in Brookline, we knocked on doors for hours every day, through the bitter Pittsburgh winter and into the rainy spring. I met thousands of my neighbors, and I learned so much about the communities where I grew up, and where I call home.

The gift that my neighbors gave me was the peace of mind and clarity of purpose to help lead Pittsburgh into a new future, filled with opportunities for every Pittsburgher to grow and succeed.

I will carry this gift with me every day as your District 4 Council Member. And in return, I promise to continue the conversations that begin on the front porch to the Fifth Floor here on Grant Street. I will try to inspire YOU. I will ask you to be involved—to pick up a broom and work in your neighborhood, to organize your neighbors, and come down to this very chamber and hold our feet to the fire.

I ask you to BE INSPIRED and to build a better Pittsburgh with me!

There are countless stories from the campaign of people who stepped up and decided to make a difference for our communities. But one in particular stands out. One day, a man walked in to the campaign office and just wanted some information on my candidacy. His name was Jack. I talked to him for a little while, and he told me that while he no longer lives in Pittsburgh, he ran a community-oriented non-profit. So I asked if he wanted to volunteer with us—and after talking to me, he did. And he came back, again and again, especially in the closing weeks of the campaign.

What I said to Jack is what I have said to so many of my friends and neighbors over the last two years: I asked him to be a partner with our City, to be a Pittsburgher once again, and to be inspired to ask more of our political leadership and of our community.

I had coffee with Jack a few weeks ago, and I was surprised to learn that he was so inspired by that message, and by our campaign, that he mounted a grassroots campaign of his own. And I am pleased to say that on November 5th, the Borough of Carnegie elected a great new Mayor in Jack Kobistek, and the City of Pittsburgh gained a great new partner in the effort for regional cooperation.

I am asking people like Mayor Kobistek to be inspired to ask more of our leadership and our communities. And now is the time to step up and be heard—we are coming off of elections where only a small fraction of Pittsburghers showed up to vote. It’s unfortunate, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. By keeping their votes in their pockets, the people of Pittsburgh have sent us a powerful message—that we must do better.

We must do a better job of attracting new businesses and new opportunities. We must do a better job of tearing down abandoned housing and protecting our neighborhoods from crime and neglect. We must do a better job of showing people how to interface with City government, so we all can take ownership of it and start organizing for our communities.

This is our challenge: To build a better Pittsburgh house by house, street by street, and block by block. It will not be easy…this hard work will not be done in one week, or one year, or one term in office, but it must be done for our City and for our future.

We have received lavish praise from the national media for the progress we have made, there is no doubt about it. But people are still voting with their feet and moving out of our City, and we must fight this epidemic with every ounce of our spirit. We must be a city that is not just praised by Forbes Magazine, but is cherished by the sons and daughters of the great men and women who built this city with their bare hands and wrought determination.

All across this nation, Americans are struggling. The job losses have been staggering, and foreclosures unbearable. It’s important to remember that this economic climate has beat down so many American workers. How many families have been displaced? How many parents have lost their jobs? What were the holidays like this year for our neighbors … or even ourselves?

All across this country, big cities are hurting too, just like Pittsburgh. Cuts in state revenue, crumbling infrastructure, neighborhood de-stabilization—these are national problems. But the City who solves them first will become America’s next great urban center—our nation’s next great story of renewal, of change, and of hope. And so, we must tackle these issues with a zeal that is unmatched and a vigor that is unparalleled.

Pittsburgh needs a re-awakening—and all of us here today must lead it!

So when we talk about bringing investment to our neighborhoods, let us not forget the Pittsburgh families who will benefit. Because it’s Pittsburghers who will build the buildings and pave the roads — it’s Pittsburghers who will clean the offices and provide service to our guests – it’s Pittsburghers who will come home from a hard days’ work with food to put on the table and a heated house in which to tuck their children in at night.

When we talk about public safety, we aren’t just talking about abstract statistics and pie charts. We are talking about building healthy and attractive neighborhoods where families can settle and grow. Places that will offer stability and safety so children can navigate the challenging adolescent worlds of school and social life without also having to navigate the cultures of gang violence and drugs.

When we talk about our parks, we aren’t just talking about patches of grass, but real investments that make our neighborhoods fun destinations for young families. These are investments that will increase our tax revenue and give children a safe place to play.

When we talk about transparency, it’s not some pawn in a gotcha game of politics. It’s a way to give Pittsburghers information about how our government works, so we can take ownership of our communities and work to bring investments and change on our own.

Let us move forward with this new council, with this charge to build a better Pittsburgh house by house, street by street, and block by block. Let us work to inspire our friends and our neighbors to build this City up and make it America’s next great story of renewal and hope. But above all, let us work together, as a united council, to bring the investments to our neighborhoods that we deserve.

Thank you.

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== Showing off the South Hills ==

== New councilwoman pledges to be an advocate for often-overlooked city neighborhoods ==

Monday, January 04, 2010

By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Natalia Rudiak, 30, in her Carrick neighborhood, joins Pittsburgh City Council in January. The mother and child sculpture "L'Enfant" by Roger Bloche is landmark at Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street.

When Natalia Rudiak tells people which neighborhoods she will represent on City Council, they sometimes express surprise that Carrick, Overbrook, Brookline, Beechview and Bon Air are parts of Pittsburgh.

One of the top priorities of the 30-year-old Carrick resident, who joins council today, is getting this message across: The South Hills neighborhoods are part of the city; they have needs; and they deserve attention.

"In order for us to get more resources from the city, or foundations, or nonprofits, these organizations need to know that we exist," Ms. Rudiak said last week. "Every single time I sit down and meet with someone, I'm acting as an ambassador to those organizations from our neighborhoods."

She replaces Jim Motznik, who focused on constituent services during his nine years on council, and has moved on to the district judge seat in Brookline. She, too, intends to concentrate on helping residents but also intends to pick up the pace in terms of development in a district that is largely southwest of Route 51.

Route 51, she said, "is a mess, and there have been so many studies done on that." Since her victory in the May primary, she's been collecting and reading those studies in an effort to figure out what the city can do along the dowdy four-lane road, as well as in the Brookline, Beechview and Carrick business districts that sit on the hills above it.

"If there's one thing I hate in life, it's reinventing the wheel," she said. So she's studying existing multi-neighborhood groups like the Baum-Centre Planning Initiative, and trying to plug more of her constituents into citywide organizations like the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group and A+ Schools.

A big part of her job will be addressing the perception that the south gets the shaft from the city.

"Your city hall has to have a sense of urgency about what you want, and I just don't think that the southern neighborhoods really have been on their radar," said Keith Knecht, vice president of the South Pittsburgh Development Corp. "She's a bright person. She's very sincere. I don't know how she'll fare in the morass that we call City Council, but I hope that she can maintain her integrity and bring us some higher profile in terms of our contribution to the city."

She has built a good relationship with state Rep. Chelsa Wagner, who just got state funding for a community developer who will split time between Brookline and Beechview. Ms. Wagner believes the southern communities have suffered from being in-between neighborhoods -- not troubled enough to qualify for federal funds and other intensive care, and not well-off enough to throw their weight around.

Ms. Rudiak was a self-employed consultant working with nonprofit groups before winning a four-candidate Democratic primary and an uncontested general election. After the primary she phased out her work and has focused on studying everything from bike racks to tax policy.

She campaigned against "soap opera politics" while besting two South Hills political factions in the primary. Now she enters a council whose recent meetings have been daytime dramas, especially in the run-up to today's vote for the body's presidency.

She wouldn't say how she'll vote in that contest, which has pitted Councilmen William Peduto and Ricky Burgess against each other, but could easily have a surprise ending that would put Theresa Smith, Darlene Harris, Bruce Kraus, Patrick Dowd or incumbent Doug Shields in the big chair.

"It's just like any other new job -- you have to learn different peoples' personalities," she said. "I hope that I can bring a tone of rationality to any situation."

Rich Lord can be reached at rlord@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1542.

== Pittsburgh councilwoman to meet Friday with Obama ==

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak will meet with President Barack Obama and other administration officials Friday in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Rudiak, who's in her first term, was invited as part of a delegation from the American Way Foundation's Young Elected Officials Network.

She said she plans to speak about federal funding cuts, public safety and community development issues.

"The president has been a steadfast ally of cities in America, but our main streets need help and Republicans in Congress have done nothing but force cut after cut to cities like Pittsburgh," Ms. Rudiak said in a statement. "We've seen cuts to programs that help Pittsburgh with our police protection, street paving, building demolition, youth job programs, economic development, the capital budget and much more, and I'm looking forward to speaking with the president about how we can restore these programs."

First published on June 15, 2011 at 11:50 am

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==Rudiak in District 4: City Dems have no need to change on council==

May 8, 2013 12:00 AM

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Johnny Lee, who is challenging Pittsburgh Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak for the District 4 Democratic nomination in the May 21 primary, has what is considered the trifecta of endorsements for a city election -- the Fraternal Order of Police, the Pittsburgh Fire Fighters Local 1 and the city Democratic committee.

What Mr. Lee did not articulate during a meeting with Post-Gazette editors was a good reason to replace Ms. Rudiak as the party's choice to run for the seat, which represents Beechview, Brookline, Bon Air, Carrick, Overbrook and a small part of Mount Washington. The Democratic nominee will face Republican Samuel J. Hurst, who is unopposed in the primary.

Mr. Lee barely criticized Councilwoman Rudiak, calling her a competent opponent. A difference between them is Mr. Lee supports getting the city out from the state oversight of Act 47 "sooner than later," while Ms. Rudiak believes, as the Post-Gazette does, that, although the city has made improvements, major elements of its recovery plan remain undone, making continued oversight important.

Mr. Lee, 52, of Brookline, recently retired as a U.S. Postal Service supervisor but he is best known for his 18 years as a high school basketball coach and as a broadcaster for the local MSA Sports radio network. He describes himself as a people person who would be better able than Ms. Rudiak to reach out to the district's elderly residents and who would concentrate on community quality-of-life concerns rather than broad, citywide issues.

During her four years on the job, Ms. Rudiak, 33, of Carrick, seems to have tackled both.

The South Hills district, which long has believed it's been neglected compared to services provided in the city's East End communities, is seeing a lot of neighborhood attention right now. A new, $3 million Beechview community center is being planned. Brookline's commercial core, Brookline Boulevard, is undergoing a complete reconstruction. Carrick and Overbrook have joined Economic Development South, a group that works along the Route 51 corridor that those neighborhoods share with nearby suburbs.

Citywide, Ms. Rudiak has not been afraid to confront the status quo, leading a task force that was set up to review emergency response plans for weather emergencies after a 2010 blizzard crippled Pittsburgh.

Like Mr. Lee, we can't articulate a good reason for him to replace her as the Democratic nominee. The Post-Gazette endorses Natalia Rudiak -- a smart and effective hard worker.

==[http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2013/05/08/Rudiak-in-District-4-City-Dems-have-no-need-to-change-on-council/stories/201305080193#ixzz2zSZpEYGS Read More Click Here]==

==Pittsburgh Councilwoman Rudiak plans bill mandating baby-changing stations in all city-owned restrooms==

By Moriah Balingit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak plans to introduce legislation today requiring baby-changing stations in the bathrooms of city-owned buildings, including senior centers, pools, recreation centers and the City-County Building.

Ms. Rudiak's bill would require the stations in both men and women's restrooms.

In a press release, Ms. Rudiak said that while the stations are common in women's restrooms, they're often absent from men's restrooms, making it difficult for fathers and male guardians to care for their children.

"Modern families require modern amenities," she said int he release. "Parenting responsibilities are more equally shared than ever before, and it's time that our public buildings catch up to that trend."

== [http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2013/07/23/Pittsburgh-Councilwoman-Rudiak-plans-bill-mandating-baby-changing-stations-in-all-city-owned-restrooms/stories/201307230198#ixzz2zSaNAKsU Read More Click Here]==

==Rudiak and Gilman: Two Pittsburgh city council pros deserve the voters' support==

October 15, 2013 12:00 AM

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

This is the first in a series of candidate endorsements in contested races on the Nov. 5 ballot. These editorials will culminate in a recap of the Post-Gazette's recommendations that will appear on Sunday, Nov. 3.

Vigorous contests in two Pittsburgh council districts during the Democratic primary have given way to quieter fall campaigns for next month's general election. The choices should be easy ones for voters, with two council veterans -- one an incumbent and the other a longtime staff member -- having ideas and experience that are superior to that of their challengers.

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Natalia Rudiak, who joined council in 2010, is seeking her second term in District 4, and her active tenure recommends her for it. After defeating a candidate who had powerful union backing and the Democratic committee's endorsement in the primary, she squares off against an energetic but less-prepared Republican challenger.

Ms. Rudiak, 33, of Carrick, holds degrees from George Washington and Carnegie Mellon universities. She has actively solicited business owners, developers and philanthropic leaders to invest in the communities that make up District 4 -- Beechview, Bon Air, Brookline, Carrick, Overbrook and part of Mount Washington.

She has tackled projects both big and small in her district at the same time that she has been an advocate on important citywide issues. An ally of mayor-apparent Bill Peduto, she said she is looking forward to tackling some of the city's problems working in tandem with his administration.

The Post-Gazette endorses Natalia Rudiak for re-election.

==[http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2013/10/15/Rudiak-and-Gilman-Two-Pittsburgh-city-council-pros-deserve-the-voters-support/stories/201310150152 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Endorses Natalia Rudiak Second City Council Term read more] ==

==Natalia Rudiak Sworn in for second term as District 4 Councilwoman ==

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City of Pittsburgh District 4 Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak is sworn in at a ceremony in City Council Chamber by Judge Eleanor Bush. Holding the Bible for Ms. Rudiak were her parents, John and Helena Rudiak. Joining her for the ceremony were Michael Rudiak, Barbara Rudiak and Raymond Garries.

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==Open city: Rudiak’s ordinance promises a wealth of data==

January 15, 2014 8:11 PM

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak has proposed the digital equivalent of opening all the doors and windows of city government offices.

Her breath of fresh air is a proposed ordinance that would transform promises of transparency in government into a practice giving citizens easy access to information. If approved by council and signed by Mayor Bill Peduto, who favors it, the “open data” ordinance would lead to a new city website containing a wealth of data.

Laura Meixell, appointed by Mr. Peduto as Pittsburgh’s first data and analytics manager, would create the site, and every city department would have a coordinator responsible for producing an inventory of information for display.

All records considered public under the state’s Right to Know Law could be available online, eliminating red tape. Once it is in operation, citizens and businesses would be able to find everything from the location of reported potholes to paving schedules, from building permit applications to budgets.

This proactive approach is more than a tool for residents. Mr. Peduto wants the city to better utilize the data in-house to measure how departments are performing and to figure out new ways to efficiently get jobs done. Proponents also hope that outside technology developers eventually will create tools like one devised for Chicago, which allows residents to track snowplows during a storm so they can pick clear routes for driving.

All of that potential starts with the ordinance’s underlying premise that citizens have a right to “prompt, efficient service” and that “it should be easy to do business with the City of Pittsburgh.”

City council should not waste any time approving this forward-thinking measure.

==[http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2014/01/16/Open-city-Rudiak-s-ordinance-promises-a-wealth-of-data/stories/201401160136#ixzz2zSZ06aSo Read More click here]==

==Pittsburgh's pre-K promise==

==Give all the city’s kids access to high-quality early-childhood education, urges city councilwoman NATALIA RUDIAK==

February 23, 2014 12:00 AM

A Pittsburgh child’s access to high-quality early-childhood education should not be an accident of birth. It should be available and affordable for all Pittsburgh children.

The biggest hurdles facing our region — from high school dropout rates to violent crime to the rising cost of health care — can be addressed by expanding voluntary, high-quality pre-K education. Investing in children before kindergarten is much more cost-effective than spending tax dollars to address problems later in their lives.

That is why I am proposing what may be the most ambitious economic development project with the highest return on investment our city has ever seen — a Pittsburgh Promise for preschoolers.

There are approximately 5,700 three- and four-year-olds living in our city. If we want to see our children and our city thrive, we can’t wait for Washington or Harrisburg to act. We must work together to give every one of those children access to a free, high-quality preschool education.

Investing in high-quality early education yields higher returns than any other public investment. At-risk children who don’t receive a high-quality early-childhood education are 25 percent more likely to drop out of school, 50 percent more likely to be placed in special education, 60 percent more likely to never attend college and 70 percent more likely to be arrested for a violent crime.

According to a recent study by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Pennsylvania taxpayers hand over almost $2 billion a year to house, feed and provide 24-hour supervision for state prisoners — more than $35,000 per inmate. We spend only a fraction as much — $340 million annually — on early-childhood education. We do not put prisoners on waiting lists, yet thousands of children are placed on waiting lists each year in Pennsylvania, simply because their families cannot afford high-quality pre-K programs. This is unjust and unacceptable.

I’ve heard from many of my constituents about the daunting obstacles they face to afford a preschool education for their children.

In Beechview, Michele and her husband struggle to pay down their own student loans, the $7,000 debt from her eldest child's preschool tuition, and monthly preschool fees for her second son, who has autism and requires socialization.

Kara was lucky to find financial assistance so her daughter could attend a great public preschool program, one of her main reasons for staying in the city. Once her husband’s income increased slightly, however, they no longer qualified for assistance and were hit with a $600-a-month bill. As Kara said, “$600 a month is a mortgage payment for a lot of houses in the city. I don’t know anyone who could afford that.”

Christy has a similar story. She bought a house within the feeder pattern of the Bon Air Early Childhood Program Education Center specifically so her daughter could attend school there. Due to budgetary constraints, the center was closed the year her daughter was ready to enroll. Christy applied for Head Start but didn’t qualify. The public and private schools she contacted started out at $650 per month for part-time pre-K. Due to the enormous expense, Christy and her husband could not afford preschool for their three-year-old.

As many of my constituents have found, accessing affordable pre-K programs can be a game of chance and circumstance. Some qualify for Head Start, which is funded by the federal and state governments. If your child is disabled, an English-language learner or otherwise at-risk, you also may qualify for aid. Your local school district might cover the cost if you live in the right ZIP code. Don’t qualify for any of these programs or live on the wrong side of the municipal border? You are on your own. It is clear that this patchwork of programming is not working.

Cities and states across the country, including Boston, San Francisco, Oklahoma, West Virginia and large parts of New Jersey, have opened high-quality preschool to all their children. The Seattle city council is considering a proposal to make voluntary high-quality preschool available and affordable citywide.

According to independent studies, the children participating in these programs are achieving the intended results. A Rutgers University study showed that kids enrolled in New Jersey’s programs showed 30 percent higher gains in vocabulary and 80 percent higher gains in math skills than those who did not participate.

Because of the proven success of quality pre-K programs, I am happy to stand with the Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children and other advocacy organizations across the state to support the Pre-K for PA Campaign. It is time that we raise the awareness of those in or running for office that it makes sense to invest in young children.

Gov. Tom Corbett is asking the state Legislature to provide $10 million more for pre-K programs in Pennsylvania this year. There is no guarantee our state legislators will go for it, but, even if they do, it is not enough. Over the last three years, the Legislature has gutted so-called accountability grants to local school districts, 75 percent of which went for early childhood programs. To close its widening budget gap, Pittsburgh Public Schools has increased monthly pre-K tuition for middle-class families.

We need to take our city’s destiny into our own hands. That’s why I propose a Pittsburgh Pre-K Promise to ensure that people in the middle who can neither afford full pre-K tuition nor qualify for supplemental programs can get their children started on the right foot.

To make this proposal a reality in Pittsburgh, a coalition of business, labor, governmental, philanthropic and nonprofit leaders must work together. As we envision the next chapter of our city’s prosperity, let’s work together on high-quality early-childhood investments that will help all children realize their full potential while providing enormous long-term benefits to society.

Let’s educate our children. Let’s invest in our future. Let’s get to work.

Natalia Rudiak represents Beechview, Bon Air, Brookline, Carrick, Overbrook and part of Mount Washington on Pittsburgh City Council.

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==The Baby Pittsburgh Promise: Rudiak wants to give all Pittsburghers access to pre-K education==

Published by Moriah Balingit on Monday, 24 February 2014 7:19 pm.

In a forum piece in Sunday's paper, Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak made a bold proposal: what if we gave all tiny Pittsburgher's a better shot at education -- and a better shot at life -- by ensuring that all of them had access to quality, affordable preschool?

I spoke to Ms. Rudiak today to get more concrete details on this proposal. She said the first step is figuring out how many kids are falling through the gaps. There are a variety of funding streams that help families send young children to preschool, so it's a difficult thing to determine. Another thing she is trying to figure out: how many slots are there in high-quality preschools?

So Ms. Rudiak, who holds a master's in public policy, wants to perform "quantitative analysis to try and figure out how many kids are being covered."

"We have to figure out our facts first before we talk about funding," she said.

Another thing she wanted to emphasize: she wants to ensure that kids have more than just access to daycare. She wants them to have the opportunity to be in high-quality preschools, those which are rated three or four stars under the state's Keystone STARS evaluation system. So that may mean helping current facilities upgrade by providing qualified preschool teachers or teacher training.

If this seems like it's out of reach, there are actually a number of places that are working on universal pre-K. Among them: Mayor Bill deBlasio of New York City is pushing hard in his nascent term to make it happen. And he's mimicking efforts in neighboring New Jersey and our neighbors to the south, West Virginia.

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== [http://www.sopghreporter.com/story/2014/06/03/news/councilwoman-natalia-rudiak-receives-leadership-award/14592.html Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak receives leadership award ] ==

June 3, 2014 | Vol. 74 No. 46

The Young Elected Officials (YEO) Network honored Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak with their prestigious Leadership Award for her work engaging young elected officials across Pennsylvania on May 18.

Since being appointed as the Network’s Pennsylvania State Director in 2013, Ms. Rudiak has recruited 60 Pennsylvania electeds under the age of 35 to share ideas and build power.

Ms. Rudiak received the award in Los Angeles at the YEO Network’s ninth convening. Joined by more than 100 fellow elected officials and national leaders from across the country, she explored policy initiatives, participated in issue-based training sessions, and talked about her own work opening city data to the public and expanding access to early childhood education.

Of her outreach work, Councilwoman Rudiak says, “I wanted to reach out to those young elected officials in Pennsylvania who are blazing new trails and have overcome great odds to be elected. These are the folks doing the work on the ground, and the more we can coordinate, the more influence we can have over state and federal issues that impact us all.”

The Young Elected Officials (YEO) Network, a nonpartisan organization, is the first and only national initiative to provide a network of support to federal, state, and elected officials ages 18 to 35 from all 50 states. The Network, which is committed to being “of, by, and for” young electeds, is unique in developing young leaders who share the values of freedom, fairness, and opportunity for all.

Ms. Rudiak, 34, was elected to Pittsburgh City Council in 2009 and has been a member of the Young Elected Officials Network since June 2011.

==‘Off the Record XIV’ solves ‘Mysteries of Pittsburgh!’==

October 5, 2014 12:00 AM

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Off the Record director Gregory Lehane (right), confers with the show's "City Council": Chris Rawson (left, standing in for David Shribman, who plays Dan Gilman), Natalia Rudiak, Bruce Kraus, Jan Glick (who plays Deb Gross) and Corey O'Connor.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Some of the great detectives of page and screen are on the case for “Off the Record XIV: Mysteries of Pittsburgh!” a detective story with clues ripped from the local headlines and dedicated to laughter for a good cause.

The silly songfest satirizing Pittsburgh skewers local politics, businesses, sports teams and more, but it’s also serious business for the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh/CWA and the local actors union SAG-AFTRA. The annual show written by Post-Gazette’s Guild members and performed by members of the two unions has raised more than $347,000 for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and more than $100,000 for the unions’ scholarships and local charities and nonprofits.

For the Food Bank, the show raises funds and awareness of the organization, which purchases more than 25 percent of the food it distributes and estimates that every dollar raised represents up to $5 of purchasing power.

“When speaking about ‘Off the Record,’ I am more than happy to go on the record to say how much we appreciate this event, which has become an annual tradition, and the benefits it provides the Food Bank,” said Lisa Scales, CEO of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. “We are grateful to the Pittsburgh Newspaper Guild/CWA and Pittsburgh SAG-AFTRA for lending their incredible talents to create such a fun, uplifting and entertaining evening, all for a good cause. It’s no mystery why ‘Off the Record’ is in its 14th year and going strong — it’s one of the most original productions in town, put on by people with a real passion for helping others.”

“Off the Record,” patterned after Gridiron Club political satires put on by media members, is the brainchild of PG reporter Gary Rotstein, who early on enlisted PG senior theater critic Chris Rawson as producer.

This year’s show is co-written by PG colleagues Bill Toland and Dan Majors and directed by Gregory Lehane, with music director Camille Villalpando Rolla and Christine Laitta as assistant director, choreographer and performer. The cast includes Kim El, Billy Hepfinger, Jeff Pollock, Michael E. Moats, Tressa Glover, Don DiGiulio, Dereck Walton, Brian Corey and more, plus a few surprises from the realm of elected officials.

The theme changes from year to year, and there’s no shortage of juicy material on the pages of the Post-Gazette and the 6 o’clock news that lend themselves to satire. Finding a theme this year was elementary, said Mr. Toland, a PG business writer.

“In 13 years, we hadn’t done a mystery caper,” he said. “But when the new mayoral administration began with stories of missing computers and Super Bowl crystals, it seemed like a natural plot line.”

Mr. Toland has been involved in “Off the Record” for eight years, “writing, song-writing and even ‘acting’ one year,” he said. Mr. Majors has been a part of “Off the Record” for a decade, as a writer and a performer.

“The thing that stands out for me is what a kick it is poking fun at authority and power,” Mr. Majors said. “Especially with the targets — ranging from politicians to health care giants to shale drillers — laughing with us.”

Last year’s “Off the Record” marked the final public appearance of former mayor Sophie Masloff, and this year’s performance will be dedicated to the late PG columnist Sally Kalson, a longtime force for the Guild and the show.

KDKA-TV’s Ken Rice returns as the emcee, and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald will be the prebuttalist, getting in his licks before the media get their turn, safe in the knowledge that it’s all off the record.

== On October 14, 2014, Councilwoman Smith honored Natalia with proclamation for being named Polonian of the Year by the Polish American Congress, Western PA Division.==

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WHEREAS, Councilmember Natalia Rudiak represents Pittsburgh’s fourth district on City Council, currently serving as the Finance and Law Committee Chair; and,

WHEREAS, Natalia was born to John Rudiak and Helena Kusiolek, who married John in Poland in April of 1977 and later immigrated from Poland in November to be with her husband who resided in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and,

WHEREAS, born and raised in South Pittsburgh, Natalia graduated from Carrick High School; earned a bachelor’s degree in international development studies from George Washington University; during her undergraduate career, she studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as the Jagiellonian University in Poland and she went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University; and,

WHEREAS, Ms. Rudiak has been presented with numerous awards over the years including being named one of the 40 Under 40 by PUMP and Pittsburgh Magazine, was voted Young Democrat of the Year, named Outstanding Elected Democratic Woman by the Federation of Democratic Women , and this year, The Young Elected Officials Network awarded Natalia the prestigious Leadership Award for her work engaging young elected officials in the State of Pennsylvania; and,

WHEREAS, in April of 2013, Natalia was named Pennsylvania State Director of the Young Elected Officials Network; and she is currently a Board Member of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Economic & Industrial Development Corporation; and,

WHEREAS, Ms. Rudiak has made numerous trips to Poland, is fluent in Polish and has recently been named Polonian of the Year by the Polish American Congress, Western PA Division and will be honored at a dinner on Sunday, October 19 , 2014; and,

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby commend our colleague who serves as an inspiration to young women in Pittsburgh and personifies a true Polonian; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Tuesday, October 14, 2014, to be “Natalia Rudiak Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.

== Natalia Rudiak honored as "A Woman Who Makes A Difference" by ZONTA Pittsburgh [http://zontapittsburgh.org/] & EWC! ==

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Natalia Rudiak on being honored as "A Woman Who Makes A Difference" by ZONTA Pittsburgh & EWC!

Natalia, a two-term City Council member, was born and raised in South Pittsburgh, where she is a proud graduate of Pittsburgh Public Schools' Carrick High School. She went on to earn her Bachelor's Degree from George Washington University and the London School of Economics through scholarships awarded from the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO and International AFSCME union before completing her graduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University.
Natalia's professional background is in fiscal management and technology. She previously worked at Deloitte Consulting, where she implemented a statewide information technology system. On Council, she serves as the Chair of the Committee on Finance and Law, which deals with the Department of Finance, Ethics, the Equal Opportunity Review Commission, the Law Department, the Treasurer, and related matters. Natalia has worked to balance the city's books in the face of state financial oversight, has improved the city's credit outlook, and has built best financial practices into the city code.
Natalia has been a trailblazing legislator who advocates tirelessly for quality early childhood education for all children. She is steadfast in her commitment to families, introducing and passing family-friendly legislation for the workplace, and advocating for livable wages.
Natalia was named one of the 40 Under 40 by PUMP and Pittsburgh Magazine in 2009, and was voted Young Democrat of the Year in 2011 by the Young Democrats of Allegheny County. Natalia was a 2010 Women of Achievement Awards Honoree and won the Pennsylvania Federation of Democratic Women Outstanding Elected Democratic Woman Award in 2012. Additionally, she was a Pittsburgh Business Times Fast Track award winner in 2014, and a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh Class 28. Natalia was formerly an Executive Board Member of the Pittsburgh Parking Authority of Pittsburgh and is currently a Board Member of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Economic and Industrial Development Corporation. She is also the head of the Pennsylvania Young Elected Officials Network.
==City may launch task force to examine affordable preschool [http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2017/02/24/Pittsburgh-City-council-early-childhood-task-force-affordable-preschool-Natalia-Rudiak/stories/201702240103?pgpageversion=pgevoke] ==

MOLLY BORN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
mborn@post-gazette.com
FEB 24, 2017

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Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak will introduce legislation Tuesday creating an early childhood task force charged with crafting a plan to expand affordable preschool.

The group will include members of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, Allegheny County Department of Human Services, the foundation community and Mayor Bill Peduto, who has called early childhood education one of his two main focus areas this year. The announcement also included the release of a new study on the topic from the City of Pittsburgh.

“The report is a good start to quantify the need, but it is a call to action for a plan on how we reach our goals — and this piece of legislation will create the plan,” said Ms. Rudiak. She is not seeking re-election.

About 1,500 children in Pittsburgh don’t have access to full-day, high-quality preschool programming, according to a 2016 report from the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers. Only 16 percent of center-based preschool providers here are considered “high-quality,” Ms. Rudiak said.

Pittsburgh Public Schools provides free, full-day preschool to children age 3 to 5, funded through a combination of funding sources, including the state’s Head Start and Pre-K Counts initiatives. The Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center also provides free pre-K and Head Start to low-income children in four city neighborhoods.

The city’s report estimated $15 million would cover enrollment for all city youngsters not currently enrolled in a pre-K program — and $4 million would scoop up the 400 students on Pittsburgh Public’s wait-list.

Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed budget for 2017-18 would include $75 million in added support for early childhood education. It it is approved, that would mean another 8,400 preschool-age children could begin such a program next fall.

“We’ve got a bit of a road to go, but it’s another great step forward,” said Joan Benso, CEO of Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children in a recent interview.

The group will develop a initial plan based on recommendations in the mayor’s 2014 blue ribbon panel on early childhood education, and a key aspect members will consider is how such an effort would be paid for. The city’s report recommended city leaders “boldly pursue unique and innovative funding streams” despite rules saying the city can’t “create new subjects for taxation.”

Erin Kramer, executive director of activist group One Pennsylvania, said families across the region routinely spend 25 to 30 percent of their base income for child care. Carrying that full cost, or not having child care option altogether, causes “immense” economic stress for families, she said.

“We do not believe there should be an economic test for being a good mother, so an investment in pre-K is [also] an investment in parents.”

Molly Born: mborn@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1944.

==Natalia Rudiak reflects on her eight years on Pittsburgh City Council ==

Adam Smeltz
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
asmeltz@post-gazette.com
Jan 13, 2018 11:44 PM

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Natalia Rudiak never talks about this. She doesn’t want it to seem exploitative.

But the fact is, the spark that led her to Pittsburgh City Council — where she just finished eight high-profile years — was a deadly shooting in Mount Oliver.
Before a teen-age robber claimed his life, she got to know Jamal Mouzaffar, 28, in the corner store where he worked with his uncle. Ms. Rudiak, then a consultant at Deloitte, stopped and talked the night before violence struck in August 2007.

Mr. Mouzaffar, from Syria, was visiting Pittsburgh for an adjustment to a prosthetic leg.

“It was just crazy to me that someone would come to the United States and then be shot to death by a 16-year-old boy,” said Ms. Rudiak, 38, of Carrick. She said it “really woke me up from the spreadsheets and the airport travel and the dreary office park that I was working in.

“I realized that there are things happening in my backyard that I needed to be part of, and conversations that I needed to start having,” she said.

Ten years, two elections and two terms later, Ms. Rudiak left City Council last month having forged Pittsburgh history. The first woman elected to represent District 4, she was among four members of the Women’s Caucus — the first time so many women served together on the nine-member council.

“Being young and single was not a detriment. It was actually an asset. She gave us a perspective that many of us didn’t have,” Councilwoman Theresa Kail-Smith said.
Mrs. Kail-Smith said the caucus “collectively showed folks how they can build a consensus.” Including council members Deborah Gross and Darlene Harris, the group drove a $2 million allocation for 2018 to strengthen early childhood education, a top priority for Ms. Rudiak. She has underscored research showing the programs reduce crime, drop-out rates and drug use.

Relaxed in a Brookline coffee shop last week, Ms. Rudiak ticked off a cross-section of other achievements: a rehabilitated senior center in Beechview, a business district in Carrick, the reconstruction of Brookline Boulevard. She fought efforts to privatize city parking operations, pushed to open city-owned data for easier public review and helped manage budgets as council’s finance and law chairwoman.
The senior center on Broadway Avenue especially is a boon to Beechview, which “always seems to be a forgotten neighborhood,” said Clint Burton, 56, of nearby Brookline. The community facility had a grand reopening in September.
“There was never a time I met her that she wasn’t happy to see me and asked what she could do to help me out,” said Mr. Burton, who manages the Brookline Connection website.

Not that her job was all bliss. At first, council proved “the most unprofessional environment I’d ever worked in,” rife with grudges, the silent treatment, backstabbing and two-faced antics, Ms. Rudiak said. She also found herself at odds with the administration of former Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, in part over whether the private sector should manage city parking. [She maintains the move would have cost Pittsburghers a lot more to park.]
Ms. Rudiak gave high marks to Mr. Ravenstahl’s successor, Mayor Bill Bill Peduto, on “big-picture issues” like overall policy.

Still, “I think more visibility in south and west Pittsburgh would be certainly really helpful,” she said, “I know that maybe it doesn’t make sense — I know that the political calculus means that he’s pulled most of his votes from the East End. But the fact of the matter is, he’s south Pittsburgh’s mayor. And I think people really want to see him and hear from him out here.”
Mr. Peduto allowed that “more time could be spent in neighborhoods, and I do spend a lot.” The mayoral role is a juggling act across local, national and global stages, and “there will never be enough hours in a day,” he said.
He called Ms. Rudiak a leader on women’s rights and gender equity who upheld “very strict fiscal discipline with City Council.”

Her successor in District 4, Anthony Coghill, wasn’t so flattering. He ran last year on a “Back to Basics” platform targeting litter, infrastructure and paving, in part because he felt Ms. Rudiak’s office “wasn’t taking care of the basic needs.”
“I would say our style is different because I feel like Natalia was more about the big picture, meaning more national issues,” said Mr. Coghill, who took office this month. He defeated Ms. Rudiak’s chief of staff, Ashleigh Deemer, in the Democratic primary last May and Republican Cletus Cibrone-Abate in the November general election.

Ms. Rudiak, who declined to seek a third four-year term, rejected the criticism. She dubbed Mr. Coghill “not the most informed person,” noting the city has fallen under state budgetary oversight for more than a decade.
“I’ll be the first to say many of our services been understaffed and underfunded,” Ms. Rudiak said. “I think every council person and every department is doing the best with the resources that we have.”
She announced in December 2016 that she would not run again, saying she wanted time to rebuild some family bonds. Last week, she said the deterioration of public discourse played a part, too. Sexist comments on social media targeted both her and her staff.

“I think it poisons the well for a lot of well-meaning people who want to get into politics,” Ms. Rudiak said. “It’s a lot to bear.”
She’s still figuring out next steps, although she wants to remain in what she called “the helping sector.” She’s also helping lead Women for the Future Pittsburgh, a political action committee aimed at helping progressive women run for office in Western Pennsylvania.

Back at city hall, council may soon have four women again. Two of three candidates to fill the District 8 seat in a March 6 special election are women. Dan Gilman vacated the slot this month when he joined Mr. Peduto’s administration as chief of staff.

As the Women’s Caucus illustrated how to reach agreements, Mrs. Kail-Smith said, Ms. Rudiak displayed a human side to City Council.
“I think she showed something that was rare: vulnerability and intelligence at the same time,” Mrs. Kail-Smith said.

Adam Smeltz: 412-263-2625, asmeltz@post-gazette.com, @asmeltz.

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