Abbot Academy Announces 25 New Grants

Grant proposals range from technology purchases to educational programs

November 16, 2009 --At its fall meeting, held October 29–30, the board of the Abbot Academy Association announced the awarding of full or partial funding for the following 25 grant proposals:

Octavia Abell ’10 and Claire King ’10—to purchase four replacement computers for Pot Pourri

Jon Bakken ’12 and Ben Scharf ’12—to fund recreational downhill ski trips

Jessica Blake ’10—to bring environmental activist Annie Leonard to campus to speak on sustainability in our everyday lives

Jenny Chen ’11 —to host a one-day event for interested Lawrence elementary school students to come to PA and participate in a math competition

Nick Dean ’10 and Julian Chernyk ’10—to improve the sound-proofing in the WPAA recording studio and to improve the microphones in the broadcasting studio

Dominic DeJesus ’10—to bring gay rights and HIV/AIDS activist Cleve Jones to campus to speak on his experiences in the 1970s and 1980s and apply them to 21st-century activism

Anna Fang ’10, Kimberly Kohn’10, and Sophie Fourteau ’10—to continue Amnesty International Club’s highly successful global letter-writing campaign while improving international awareness and fund raising for human rights causes in the PA community

David Fox—to fund a four- or five-day retreat during the summer of 2010 for eight to 12 members of the Teaching and Learning Study Group

Mohammed Harba—to create a classroom setting that can visually represent Arabic as a language and as a culture and help students learn more about Arabic-speaking countries

Evan Hoyt ’11—to buy remote control airplanes and other learning equipment for an after-school community service program

Carlos Hoyt—to purchase iClickers to add to the Academy’s current stock, to be used for PACE and Wellness Week and by other departments as needed

Supriya Jain ’12 and Saloni Jain ’13—to host an interactive Indian Classical Dance workshop by bringing to campus acclaimed artist Mrs. Neena Gulati, accompanied by a live four-person Indian orchestra and trained dancers

Jacqueline Lender ’11 —to host a year-end barbecue in honor of her ARC Buddies

William Lindsey ’10—to provide registration fees and transportation costs for Phillips Academy’s Model UN to attend regional competitions

Shefali Lohia ’10—to send Andover Mock Trial participants to a statewide competition organized by the Massachusetts Bar Association

Elliot Melaney ’10—to give the Science Club funding for a new buzzer set and prizes in order to host a PA Science Bowl

Tristin Moone ’10—to create a student lounge in the Peabody Museum to reflect Native American culture

Billy Murray, Mark Efinger, and Allen Grimm—to hire Fly By Foy, the preeminent fly company, to provide safe and secure flying capability to our actors as needed in our fall term production of the musical The Who’s Tommy

Jung Hyun Noh ’12—to support Andover’s only multicultural magazine In The Mix

Nikita Saxena ’10, Scott Fleming ’10, and Steve Kim ’11—to purchase popular/contemporary orchestral music to continue the growth of musicianship within PA

Eric Sirakian ’10—to bring to campus Terezin, a powerful play about the Holocaust, thereby raising awareness of hate crimes

Chand Sripad and Chris Walter—to bring to the Andover community the experience of an Indo- Jazz fusion music concert at Cochran Chapel in spring 2010

Duncan Will—to underwrite the cost of providing each Senior Class woman with a long-stem red rose, which she will carry in the tradition of Abbot Academy during Commencement Exercises on June 6, 2010

Judith Wombwell—to bring a master teacher in modern dance to teach one week of technique classes for the benefit of the more advanced students in the dance program and as professional development for the dance faculty

Kira Wyckoff ’11 and Kristina Ballard ’11—to provide PA with a campus garden that would benefit both the school and local community

The Abbot Academy Association was founded upon the merger of Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy in 1973. Abbot Academy was the oldest incorporated school in the country for the higher education of young women. The Abbot Academy Association seeks to foster and promote the legacy and spirit of Abbot Academy on the campus and in the programs of Phillips Academy.