ELF Board of Directors

Letter from our Board of Directors

Dear Community Members,

We are pleased to report that our financial position continues to grow. With our ever-improving financial position, ELF has been able to increase the funds available for grants. If you are interested in applying for a grant, please click here.

If you have a desire to assist ELF and its efforts to continue to build the endowment, please feel free to contact us at 413-529-3354 or email us.

Should you have any questions about ELF, please feel free to contact any of the Board members.

The Board of Directors wishes to thank the community for the support we have received over the past several years, as we continue to try to have a positive impact on public education in Easthampton.

The Board of Directors
Easthampton Learning Foundation

Genevieve Brough, Board President

Bozena Dabek, Board Treasurer

Jenny Papageorge, Board Secretary

Laurie Lagana Brown

Jen Fulcher

Andrea Marks

Kara McElhone

Amanda Kemp

Susan Lapointe

In Emeritus

Stan Paulauskas

Chuck McCullagh

Tom Brown

We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution

we the people

On Saturday, January 30th, 12 Easthampton High School juniors and seniors participated in the We the People Constitutional Hearing Competition against 6 other MA schools at the Edward M. Kennedy Senate Center in Boston. The competition requires students to become "experts" on certain aspects of the Constitution on which they are required to both testify using prepared statements and answer questions without notes. Kelley Brown's students placed 2nd, only behind the Williston Northampton School. Williston and EHS were the only western Massachusetts teams in attendance. Williston's teacher was our own school committee member, Peter Gunn. Kudos to the city of Easthampton for our public and private school students! This spring the students will visit the Edward M. Kennedy Senate Center to participate in a Senate simulation as part of the ELF grant. Students will get to debate a current bill roleplaying current U.S. Senators in the full replica of the U.S. Senate at the center. Pictured above, EHS students Alexis White, Sarah Gallant and Andrew Connelly testify about significance of the Declaration of Independence and its founding principles.