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The WEECC Is No Longer Active
Our community is now represented by the:
Elliott Community Group
In late 2010 community involvement with the West End Elliott Citizens Council ceased after
47 years of service.
This started with the loss of two very active friends and neighbors:
Elmer Clark who passed on in 2009,
and Norene Beatty who moved to another nearby community. The last known
participant was Matt Hogue.
These pages are no longer maintainted,
and remain online for historical review.
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Overlook Dedicated In Memory Of Elmer
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Elmer M Clark
Sept. 29, 1940 - Dec. 3, 2009
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He was one of the greatest assets that the West End Elliott Citizens
Council ever had. He lived and breathed
for the children and the community. - Norene Beatty
View and sign Elmer's
remberence guestbook
Also see Post Gazette:
news story, and
obituary.
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- The communities with
a view - |
I came to Elliott
as a bride June 1959. My four children were all born in Elliott, three
sons and one daughter. Though I was born in Butte, Montana, for a number
of reasons my family lived in four different states and I attended
eleven schools before graduating from high school in Ohio. My parents
were both Pennsylvanians. My mother, a Pittsburgher, was born
in Elliott and raised in Carrick. My husband was an Elliott boy, and will
no doubt die an Elliott boy. I went to city schools, country schools
and a school off an Indian reservation. I was always the new kid.
So when I came to Elliott knowing only my husbands family, I decided this
was my home, my community, and I would be a part of it!
I held every position but cub master in Cub Scout Pack 87 of boy Scouts
of America, with a total of nine years service. Took my turns at the Little
League refreshment stand when all my children played ball. I was the elected
parent representative of Stevens Elementary school for five years and two
years for Greenway Middle School. I was the Langley Cluster of schools
secretary for two years and the chairperson of the cluster for two years.
I participated in title 8 program committees for the city schools and wide
number of other committees including the magnate school committee. I was
the first president of the National Association of Neighborhood Schools
branch in Pittsburgh. I held the post for two years and one year
as vice president.
Elliott has ben good to me in the past forty years. I have seen it change
in some cosmetic ways. Like many communities, we lost our little stores
to the shopping centers and malls. New people have come, but more
have stayed. Our houses are a little older, we plant a few more flowers,
and every year we see new faces in our playgrounds... but most of the parents
there once played in those very playgrounds of Townsend Field, Herschel
Park, Wabash Park and West End Park.
We have our disagreements on little things, but on the big things we
can agree. The West End Overlook undoubtedly is our crowning glow to fame
as the best view of Pittsburgh and the point. We celebrate the 4th of July
there with hot dogs and fireworks, and music fills the late afternoon air.
The tour buses come for the view of the city, which is great. What
the tour buses miss are the special people, just nice folks that
make our community home.
