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THE SALVATION ARMY
MANHATTAN CITADEL CORPS
CORNERSTONE LAYING
Sunday, November 12, 1978

Salvation Army, community, and civic leaders will place the cornerstone in the new $1.9-million Salvation Army corps community center now under construction in the East Harlem Triangle urban renewal area at 125th Street and Third Avenue during cornerstone-laying ceremonies to be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, November 12.

Laying the Manhattan Citadel Corps Community Center cornerstone will be Lt.-Colonel Walter C. French, Salvation Army director of operations for Greater New York; Congressman Charles B. Rangel, 19th District; Marvin Wilkinson, director of Manhattan Development, New York City Department of Housing, Preservation, and Development; and Brigadier Mary Nisiewicz, commanding officer of the corps community center.

Also participating in the afternoon program will be Mrs. Hilda Stokley, representing the East Harlem Community; Major Abraham Johnson, commanding officer of the Harlem Temple Corps Community Center; Major Edward Fritz, Greater New York divisional commander; and Joseph Gagos, Jr., Corps outreach program director.

The Manhattan Citadel Band under the direction of Bandmaster David W. Appleby will play.

Ground was broken October 30 a year ago for the new facility, culminating five years of planning by The Salvation Army with local leaders, the Housing and Development Administration, and the Community Association of the East Harlem Triangle for relocation of the Corps from its present location on 157 East 125th Street.

The Salvation Army has been serving people in the East Harlem area for 96 years and has been at its present location for the past 67 years.

The new building when completed will include a gymnasium that also will serve as an auditorium, a chapel, along with facilities for day care, expanded drug addiction counseling services, senior citizens' and neighborhood tutorial programs, and character-building activities.

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[[caption]] Congressman Charles Rangel laid the cornerstone for the new Salvation Army Community Center. [[/caption]]

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