Mercy High School Commemorates For 57th Anniversary Of Beatles Lead Guitarist George Harrison’s Visit To School

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mercy High School held a peculiar ceremonial to people the 57th day of the Beatles pb guitarist George Harrison’s sojourn to the school.

The schoolhouse unveiled humanities items on with a commemorative plaque that was placed supra the aforesaid h2o fountain wherever Harrison drank portion astatine the school.

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“We judge that George Harrison visited Mercy due to the fact that it was a brand-new schoolhouse with a estimation for an outstanding world programme that reflected the champion methods successful acquisition of the day. The school’s modern architecture was besides rather distinctive,” said Mary Beth Lennon, president of Mercy High School. “We are arrogant to proceed a contented of excellence and innovation astatine Mercy today.”

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Harrison visited the schoolhouse the time aft his show astatine the Civic Center. The founding main of Mercy High, Sister Michelle Carroll, took him connected a 30-minute tour. It marked the lone known sojourn to an American precocious schoolhouse by a subordinate of the Beatles astatine the tallness of Beatlemania.

“My household and I person told the communicative galore times of however my begetter met George Harrison, gave him a thrust successful our Chevy Covair, and brought him to Mercy High School,” said Daniel Wildberger, who is besides an designer and a main astatine Edge Architecture LLC. “Everyone loved the Beatles. So, George’s sojourn to our Baltimore assemblage meant everything to us.”

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The unveiling of the plaque and different commemorative items marks the completion of Mercy High School’s 60th day year. The schoolhouse opened successful Sept. of 1960.

CBS Baltimore Staff

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