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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University June 8, 2009 | Vol. 38 No. 37
 
Mary Pat Clarke Welcomes Memorial

Photo: HIPS/Will Kirk

City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke welcomes the Lizette Woodworth Reese Memorial--also known as the Good Shepherd Statue--back to its home in Waverly.

The piece was rededicated June 1 on the Johns Hopkins@Eastern campus, where it had been originally installed, 70 years ago, at Eastern High School. After the school closed, the statue was moved to the merged Lake Clifton-Eastern High School and rededicated on June 1, 1987.

Its return last week was choreographed by the Eastern High Alumnae Association, which raised $20,000 for the effort and garnered support from Clarke, the city's Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation and Johns Hopkins officials. The statue of a shepherd and lambs honors an 1873 graduate of Eastern and a line from a poem she penned that said, "Come every helplessness and every dread ... a shepherd is at hand ..." It is the work of Reese's friend, sculptor Grace Hill Turnbull.

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