Hello Kewpie Alumni

Our alma mater needs a new urn, imagine that....!

Is that the last thing you ever thought I'd be asking for or what?

I am only asking if you have any knowledge of someone who could replicate this urn that still stands at the front entrance to David Henry Hickman High School. The whereabouts of the missing urn is unknown, but we know it disappeared. The administration at Hickman has exhausted local resources for a replacement and their budget won't allow the amount of $4,000.00 which is what they have been told creating a new mold could cost. I am looking for a match to the existing urn or for certain a much better price than the 4K for cloning the original. If you can offer any help with this issue please contact me at charley@kewpie.net or Sharon Dothage at HHS at SDothage@cpsk12.org. You can also call Hickman at 573-214-3000 and press "0" for Sharon.

Email from Sharon

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Thanks for your help.....!

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Images below:

#1 view of entrance with urn in bushes on left and where the urn is missing on right

#2 view from side of original urn and missing urn

#3 view of original urn

#4 view where urn in missing

#5 close up of original urn

#6 original urn with view of drain on side

#7 school's drawing of the urn


 

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Charley Blackmore - 2312 Deer Creek Ct - Columbia MO 65201-3564
573-442-1873 Cell 573-808-5314 (noon - midnight)

charley@kewpie.net or mrkewp@gmail.com

Email from Sharon at Hickman

Charley,

We are working on updating the landscaping and look of the grounds at Hickman.  During the tour with a landscape designer we discovered that we are missing an urn from the west side of the north side of the original part of the building (see attached photos).  Our guess is that the west urn was damaged or stolen. 

In our research to try and find a match to the urn on the east side of the north entrance we have run into  stumbling blocks.  Premade urns we have looked at are not the correct size and would not match.  We have called various companies that either sell urns or could, maybe, make them.  None of them could give us a concrete anwer at this point.

Would it be possible for you to send out an email to the alumni and see if anyone in the country has seen an urn that would match, give us a source that we could purchase a matching urn, let us know if there is a matching urn sitting somewhere that we could use, know of a company that could make us a matching urn, etc.  We have been told that a mold would cost up to $4000 and that would be beyond our budget means.  I am attaching a drawing with the dimensions of the current urn so you can see what size is needed.

Let me know what you think,

Sharon



 


To the "Columbia Missourian" article by Magaret Austin

 


Listen to Tunes from your years at Hickman

See your Class Cressets

See reunion pictures

See new Kewpie mascot costumes

2017 State Championship Kewpie Cheerleaders (1st ever for Hickman) - Slideshow

Kewpie and Kewpie Family Memorial Pages

Back to www.kewpie.net

Thanks for your continuing support!


Charley Blackmore - 2312 Deer Creek Ct - Columbia MO 65201-3564
573-442-1873 Cell 573-808-5314 (noon - midnight)

charley@kewpie.net or mrkewp@gmail.com

 

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