Utica Free Academy Class of 1967 - the fate of the old building

By REBECCA CRONISER
Observer-Dispatch
Posted Dec 29, 2008 @ 05:45 PM

UTICA —

The former high school that houses the Loretto Utica Center has yet to make it to the auction block.This comes more than six months after the lender foreclosed on the property. Mark McLane, a Utica attorney who was court appointed to conduct the auction of the former
Utica Free Academy on Kemble Street, said the auction date has been moved three times.It was first scheduled for July 23, but was later postponed “for undisclosed reasons.”McLane, of the law firm McLane, Smith and Lascurettes, said he was not involved in the proceedings or discussions between Loretto and its lender General Electric Capital Corp. to know why the auction dates were canceled.General Electric Capital Corp. foreclosed on the property June 19 for more than $29 million in mortgage payments, according to Oneida County Court records.“It's not unusual for the type of property involved,” McLane said about the auction postponements. “Even being without an auction date is not unusual. It can give the parties involved a chance to discuss things, but I assume I'll be seeing a reschedule date soon.”The Loretto project was designed in the early 1990s to displace poverty, crime, joblessness and other symptoms of urban decay. Several government agencies provided grants to Loretto for the rehabilitation of the vacant school.

Loretto Public Relations director Michael Connor said he did not know why the auctions were postponed, but said he wanted to assure people the center isn't going anywhere.”“There is ongoing financial restructuring in relation to the mortgage of the property and the building, but not the operation,” Connor said. “The programs and services are so vital to the Utica and Rome area. They are far removed from the restructuring process.”Syracuse-based attorney Jeffrey Dove of Menter, Rudin and Trivelpiece, who is representing the Loretto Center, did not return a call Monday.The center provides services to more than 250 senior citizens, and until this month, housed the Cosmopolitan Center in the rear of the building. The Cosmopolitan Center has filed for bankruptcy and is closing because of its own financial troubles.Connor said the center does not plan to expand into where the Cosmopolitan Center had been and is pursuing another tenant to share the space.An attorney for the lender has said the sale would not affect the tenants. David P. Martin, the lender's attorney, could not be reached Monday.

The state Department of Health will be involved if there is any sale of the property, department spokesman Jeffrey Hammond said. “Whenever there is any change in ownership, we work to make sure there is no change in the level of service the residents have come to expect,” he said.

Updated news for Utica Free Academy Classmates Class of 1967.
NEXT REUNION DATES ?

UTICA FREE ACADEMY Christmas Ornament -Utica Landmarks Society

The Landmarks Society's 2008 collectible ornament honors a building sure to inspire nostalgia in those who were educated in its stone and brick classrooms throughout nearly nine decades.

This year's ornament commemorates Utica Free Academy.

In announcing its decision, President Michael J. Bosak stated: “The UFA building is very high in significance and importance, not only because of its architecture, but because of the lives that it touched and the sentiment it evokes”.

The Utica Academy, UFA's predecessor, opened in 1814 and was Utica's original secondary school. Several fires and community need eventually let tot the construction of the Kemble Street UFA building, which welcomed its first students on September 11, 1899. Another fire and popu­lation increases led to an expansion of the building that doubled its size by 1917. UFA closed in 1987. In the summer of 1995, the building re-opened for use as the Loretto Utica Center.
Purchasing The Ornament - The UFA ornament will become available at a special reception Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Loretto Utica Center, the former UFA on Kemble Street. Ornaments can be purchased at the event for $22 plus tax. They will also be available for purchase by calling the Landmarks Society at 315-732-7376; one the Landmarks' Web site, http://www.uticalandmarks.org/; and at several local retail outlets:
Lennon & W.B. Wilcox Co.
McHarris Gifts, Clinton
Dannella Photographic
Oneida County Historical Society
Munson- Williams -Proctor Arts Institute Gift Shop

Landmarks' Annual Collectible Ornaments - The Utica Free Academy ornament is eighth in the Landmarks' popular series that has included the Whitestown Town Hall, Union Station, F.X. Matt Brewery, Utica Public Library, SBU Bank, Hotel Utica, and Old Main. A limited supply of previous years' ornaments are available on the Landmarks' Web site. The Hotel Utica and Brewery ornaments are sold out.

UTICA FREE ACADEMY Class of 1967

"Are you one of our missing classmates ?"

http://www.ufa1967.blogspot.com/

Utica Free Academy Class of 1967 Lost Classmates

Still looking for classmates before the next Utica Free Academy Class of 1967 reunion.

We just found
Millie (Mildred Doat) Currey------- Heuvelton, NY
send info to
ufaclass67(at)yahoo(dot)com

Utica Free Academy - Class of 1967 news

Seems the alma mater is going up on the auction block in July.

What will become of the Utica Free Academy building ? Worse case scenario - it will sit vacant and go the way other buildings in that area have.
What a history our school has had. Will someone step up and rescue the building ?

When we took the tour during last years reunion, most of the south end of the building had been completely redone. Not sure about the other side. Stay tuned for updates.

Utica Free Academy Class of 1967 - Looking for classmates

Looking for Utica Free Academy 1967 lost classmates - if you have info send to
ufaclass67(at)yahoo(dot)com

See photos from our 2007 reunion

Check our missing classmates list and help us update our contacts

Summer of '67 Songs

What would our memories be without our music.
We've added a couple of our favorites.

What were you listening to during that summer we graduated ?
Let us know and we'll add them

Utica Free Academy Class of 1967, Utica NY - Looking for...

Utica Free Academy Class of 1967 in Utica New York is looking for the following classmates.
If you are a classmate or know a classmate, please email us with their contact info

Thanks


Agne, Cheryl
Alberico, Sylvia
Amado, James
Babowicz, Roger
Bagnall-Reider, Cheryl
Barnum, Douglas
Barr-DeMola, Linda
Bateman, Charles
Bazan, Jeanette
Belmonte, Phil A.
Bennett-Williams
Bizzari, Peter
Boone, Richard W.
Bork, LeRoy
Borruso, Jean
Bowser, Sandra
Brennan, William
Brennan-Steppello, Donna
Brenon, David
Bridenbacker-Villano, Sharon
Brisson, Joyce E
Brosemer, Joyce A.
Brown, Marguerite
Butler, L. Stephan
Carter, Donna L.
Casey, Arnold
Christiansen, Mary J.
Chrostowski, Ronald
Clarke, Bonnie J.
Clarke, Dennis
Clarke, Diana L.
Cook, Katherine M.
Cummings, William P.
Curri-Kelly, Yvonne
Czarnocki, Hank
Dallas-Chisholm, Carol Ann
Dallas-McCrary, Edith L.
Danner, Steven
Davis, Fred L.
Davis, Ruby
DeLalla, Elizabeth
Dellenger, Laura A.
Dengle, Margaret
Derminio, Linda M.
Doat-Currey, Mildred found
Dodge, Richard M.
Dodson, Lawrence J.
Doll-Mishlanie, Elizabeth F.
Dousharm-Klein, Charmaine
Doyle, Bryan
Drahosz, George
Duffy, Paul
Eisenstein, Gloaria F.
Evans, Bonnie M.
Fanelli-Demme, Marie E.
Felton, Henry
Felton, Peter
Felton-Pearson, Priscilla
Ferrazzano, Carol M.
Finnegan, Anne M.
Fischer, Charles T.
Fitzgerald, James G.
Flagg, Christyne F.
Folds, Edith M.
Foley, John H.
Frazier, Wilma
Frisbie, James
Frisbie, Joseph
Gallo, Anna M.
Garfield, Allan
Gengel, Mary O.
Gerace, Salvatore O.
Gerling, Wayne
Glod, Brian
Golden, James L.
Gontarz, Pauline J.
Greco, Sam
Gwilt--Trask, Dorothy A.
Handzel-Kupiec, Jeanne
Hanrahan, Thomas
Hendricks, Roy Lee
Hendrickson, Marlene J.
Herbowy, Daniel
Heredia, Angelo M.
Herman, Walter
Hertz, Randall W.
Hieber, Albert C.
Hnatiw, Lubomyr
Holmes, Richard
Humiecki, Grozyna
Jackson, Albert C.
Jacobs, Irene E.
James, Linda D.
Janiszewski, Andrea L.
Jarema, Jerry M.
Jasek, Robert
Jeffalone, Angelo J.
Johnson, Shirley
Jones, Mary L.
Jones, Stephen
Kaczor-Yurick, Patricia J.
Kay, Mary Jayne
Kelly, Thomas G.
Kennedy, Geraldini M.
King, Vivien S.
Klein, Michael Douglas
Knapp, Diana M.
Kowalski, Debbie
Kroll-Contrino, Susan
LaFaro, Frank
LaFleur-Mullikin, Ellen
Laliberte, Richard
Lamoureaux, Diane L.
Littler, Marian E.
Locash, Joseph A.
Lyons, Nancy
Maddox, Gloria J.
Mahardy, Ken M.
Marchione, Elaine
Marriott, Mark
Marshall, Bernard S.
Mazurowski-Camming, Regina A.
McGovern, Mary D.
McKenzie, Zelma J.
McLeod, James W.
McMyler, William M.
Miller, Grover E.
Miller, Karen
Miller-Gmeiner, Marjorie
Miner-Lascaro, Alberta K.
Minicone, Lena M.
Misch-Yero, Linda
Moore, Gregory E. found
Moore, Judy
Moscicki, Michael
Mulchy, Buddy
Mullin, Barbara A.
Musa, Louis H.
Nelson, Roger
Nesius, Sharon L.
Newman, Stuart
Nichols, Theodore P.
Noyes, Sharon R.
O'Donnell, Kathy J.
Oliver, George P.
Olsen, Barbara
Oot, Sharon
Orlando, Frances T.
Paciello, Donna E.
Pakla, Barbara C.
Palmiero-Schram, Roseann
Parsons, Gail A.
Paternoster, Barbara A.
Patterson, Daniel
Payne, Thomas M.
Pearson, Alphonso
Pelczar-Durr, Sharon A.
Penge, Dennis
Penge-Diana, mary Ann
Perretta, Anne V.
Pezzulo, Ronald K.
Piccone, Robert
Piekielniak-Gilbride, Karen E.
Pinto, Tom P.
Plante, Catherine
Podagrosi-Zane, Mary M.
Porter, Alice L.
Price, Kenneth A.
Price, Rosemary E.
Quadraro, Anthony
Rajca-Deering, Mary L.
Randazzo, Rosalie
Reagan, Paul
Rebeck, Charles H.
Rebeck, John C.
Reed, Ronald F.
Richards, David
Roberson, William
Robinson-DeAngelo, Terri
Robitello, Diane
Rock, Peter
Romanowski, Marcia J.
Ross, David R.
Ruffrage, John S.
Sawanec, Katherine
Scarano-Heinrich, Barbara
Schiffinger-Sweeney, Mary
Schmitt-Owen, Margaret L.
Seim, Patricia
Senko, Ira
Shaheen, Monet
Sheheen, Gloria A.
Siembab, Darlene E.
Sikora, Joanna
Simard, Arthur R.
Simon, Paul W.
Sitera, Sandra
Smith, Edwin
Smith, John D.
Smith, Michael
Spost, Lynette
Stanczak, Christine A.
Stankiewicz, William B.
Stevens, William B.
Stolarczyk-Conte, Carol
Swald, Milford James
Sychtysz, JoAnne
Szlakowski, Cynthia A.
Thompson, William A.
Usher, Paula
Vanderland, jennifer
Villaneuva-Henderson, Patty
Voss, Jeanette
Waskiewicz, Dennis J.
Weatherington, Joanne
Weaver, William N.
Welpe-Cox, Karen
Williams, Ellen J.
Williams, Gloria T.
Williams, Richard
Williams, Ronald J.
Wilsey, Edward L.
Wilson, Janis E.
Wilson,William
Wolak,Robert
Wood,Robert G.
Wrobel,David M.
Wroblewski,Teddy P.
Yudiski, Ann
Zaugg,Brenda R.
Zoller, Carolyn
Zombic, Kristine