Aerial Shot - Friends Select School Displays Huge Banner Welcoming Live 8 on Rooftop Playing Field, 17th & Ben Franklin Parkway

Aerial Shot - Friends Select School Displays Huge Banner Welcoming Live 8 on Rooftop Playing Field, 17th & Ben Franklin Parkway

WHAT: Aerial view of oversized (55' long, 5' wide) banner reading
"Welcomes Live 8!" and Friends Select logo, as seen on Friends
Select School's rooftop playing field. (From air, reads Friends
Select Welcomes Live 8!) The logo and banner are visible and
readable from 2,000 feet.

The FSS rooftop field includes eight tennis courts and a field
hockey playing field. It is covered in Sprinturf, an all-rubber
in-fill artificial turf system. The field offers dramatic vistas
of office skyscrapers, the dome of the Basilica of St. Peter and
Paul and other city skyline landmarks.

WHEN: 5:00 p.m. Friday, July 1, through Monday, July 4

WHERE: Rooftop playing field, Friends Select School
17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Next to: Franklin Wyndham Plaza and GlaxoSmithKline
Visible from 2,000 feet

WHO: Friends Select School, a pre-k through 12th grade college
preparatory Quaker day school

WHY: Friends Select School traces its roots to 1689, and has been in
its present location at 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway since
1885. It has been an integral part of the life of the city of
Philadelphia for more than 300 years. Friends Select is pleased
to welcome Live 8 to the city of Philadelphia.

Friends Select School is a coed, college preparatory, Quaker day
school serving 500 students in grades pre-k through 12. The
school is located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in the heart
of Philadelphia's business, cultural and governmental districts.

For more information: Colleen Puckett
Director of Marketing
Friends Select School
215-561-5900, x145
cell 215-913-6317

PRNewswire -- July 1

Source: Friends Select School

Web site: http://www.friends-select.org/

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