The Shrewsbury High School Alumni Association is pleased to announce the recipients of its student grants for the 2009-2010 school year. On November 17, grants committee chairperson Sandra J. Lucas presented awards to 17 successful applicants. Over fifty teachers, students, parents, and friends attended this year’s Awards Ceremony in the Anthony J. Bent presentation room at Shrewsbury High School.
These projects received grant funding this year–Introduction to Photography; Scale, Proportion and Anatomy of Skeletons; Visiting Artist; Hispanic Culture through Theater, Museum Exhibit, and Cuisine; Honors American History Essay – Frederick Douglass; Literature as Film – A Critical Approach to Media; National Honor Society – Hope Lodge Project; Point of View through Primary Sources; Engineering Club Robotics; Senior Exhibition – Fiddle Explorations; Senior Exhibition – Voice Anatomy, Technique, and History; SHS Crew Team Winter Training Program; Special Peer Connection Club; Speech & Debate Mardi Gras Tournament; Teens Against Drugs and Alcohol; Team Rocketry Challenge; and Video Production Education and Recognition.
In addition, Association president Judith L. Donahue presented two special awards. In celebration of their 50-year reunion, the Class of 1959, the first graduating class from the former high school on Oak Street, donated $700 to the SHS Drama Department. And the SHS Educational Television Studio received the first-ever Partnership Award for their efforts to help the Alumni Association educate the community about their mission; The televised program, “All About Alumni Grants” was created and produced by Kevin Looney under the direction of Ms. Margaret Korab.
The Shrewsbury High School Alumni Association, founded in 1993, is a non-profit organization whose goal is to bring together all interested alumni and friends of SHS. Since 1995, the Association has managed a Student Grant Program through which grants of up to $400.00 are awarded for projects that involve or benefit at least five SHS students. During the past 15 years, The Alumni Association has donated over $50,000 through the program. Support has come from memberships, fund-raising events, and donations from both individuals and reunion classes.
Please visit the Student Grants page of the Alumni Association’s for further details: www.shrewsburyalumni.org.
