The Pennington School received a $2 million donation from the Joseph and Marion Wesley Family Foundation.
Joseph and Marion Wesley Sr. of Newtown, Pa., are the grandparents of 10 Pennington School alumni. The Wesley’s bestowed the second largest gift ever given to the school by one family, and the largest gift ever given by grandparents.
As part of the School’s 175th anniversary capital campaign, this contribution supports two building projects that are scheduled to be completed for the 2015–16 academic year.
The first project is the creation of the Wesley Alumni House, which will be the center of alumni activities on campus and will contain the offices of alumni and development. This building will be the result of the relocation and renovation of historic Lowellden, formerly the school’s office of admission.
The second project underwritten by this gift is the central gathering space to be found within the new Kenneth K. T. Yen Humanities Building. The Forum is a multistory space designed for for large assemblies, meetings and special presentations. It will be named the Joseph L. and Marion M. Wesley Forum.
Joseph L. Wesley Sr. is the founder of the AmQuip Corporation, now known as AmQuip Crane Rental LLC, a leading provider of crane rental equipment and related services in the United States.
The Wesleys’ donation is a cornerstone of the school’s capital campaign. The campaign, called Pennington 175: Engage. Enlighten. Transform, is set to finance the construction of the new landmark humanities building.
In addition to the Wesley Alumni House and the new humanities building, current construction plans include the transformation of the campus’s Stainton Hall into a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics building, restoring Old Main as the historic center of the school, and reshaping campus access and driveways to create a more unified and cohesive external environment.
More information is online at pennington.org.
