For Immediate Release

Westbrook Foundation Grant Enables Local Students
To Attend National Conference

  Westbrook, CT., June, 2002--  The work of three Westbrook High School students will be recognized next month at the national convention for Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, in Minneapolis, MN, thanks to a  $3,000 Grant from the Westbrook Foundation.

  Shadia Goldstein, president, Carol Einsmann, vice president, and Amy Gronholm, officers and member of the local chapter of FCCLA, will be honored July 7-12 for a Community Service project conducted this past Christmas at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. The high school juniors sewed, machine embroidered and stuffed over a dozen Holiday stockings for 10 to 12 year old patients at the Hospital.  The Grant will help defray the student’s travel and lodging costs.  Mrs. Marjorie Wheeler, Family & Consumer Sciences teacher at the high school, will accompany the students to Minneapolis.

Since 1985, the Westbrook Foundation, Inc. awards scholarships to local students and grants to town organizations involved in medical, social, cultural, recreational and civic endeavors.  Founded by lifelong Westbrook resident and educator, Barbara Spencer, in memory of her father, the Foundation is a non-profit organization administered by a volunteer board of towns people.  In 2001, the Foundation gave more than $130,000 in grants, scholarships and other awards.