New Cross Keys Village wellness center
to be named for Harvey S. Kline

CROSS KEYS/NEW OXFORD, PA – The planned wellness center at Cross Keys Village – The Brethren Home Community will be named in honor of Harvey S. Kline, who served as administrator and then president of what was known at the time as The Brethren Home from 1971-89.

The announcement was made at The Brethren Home Foundation’s annual “Celebrating Philanthropy” dinner by Jay K. Crist, one of three chairs of “Investing in Our Future – Together,” the fundraising campaign for the new facility.

The building name was requested by an anonymous donor and friend of Kline who made a major gift to the campaign as a tribute to his leadership.

Harvey Kline helped Crist unveil an artist’s rendering of the wellness center as his wife Ruth watched. The Klines currently live in a cottage at Cross Keys.

During Kline’s years as administrator and president, many of the changes were made that define Cross Keys Village – The Brethren Home Community today. The first of what are now more than 400 independent residential living units was built, the Assisted Living facility opened, and the nursing care building was greatly expanded, as was the size of the campus itself.

All the expansion took place while the ties to the Southern Pennsylvania District of the Church of the Brethren remained strong.

The Harvey S. Kline Wellness Center will be part of the Harmony Ridge West expansion planned to begin next summer at Cross Keys. The wellness facility will include an aquatic center, fitness activities room, fitness equipment room, dressing rooms, offices and other spaces.

The “Investing in Our Future – Together” campaign seeks $3 million to build the Kline Wellness Center and $1 million for an operation endowment.

The remainder of Harmony Ridge West includes a 56-unit complex of independent living apartments for seniors and an expansion of the Community Center, with a new restaurant and various activity and meeting rooms.

Plans call for completing the facility in late 2008.

Cross Keys Village – The Brethren Home Community was founded in 1908 at Huntsdale, near Carlisle, and moved to its current campus at the intersection of U.S. 30 and PA 94 – known locally as Cross Keys – in 1952. Today it serves a resident population of more than 900 in independent living, assisted living and nursing care, and its 600-member staff makes it the fifth largest employer in Adams County.