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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