The Marshfield High School Alumni Fund is one of the Funds the Marshfield Area Community Foundation holds. MACF is the fiscal agent. We help with the accounting for gifts and grants. We also help organize the yearly committee meeting to decide who should be awarded a grant. This fund has given back over $43,000 to the Marshfield Schools for Excellence in Teaching Grants. The fund is valued at $56,000 and continues to grow with community support.
The Marshfield High School Alumni Fund was set up by graduates from Marshfield High School’s class of 1954. Dick and Carol Seehafer, two of the people who helped established this fund, said when the Class of 1954 were attending their 40th reunion, they discovered that a very high percentage of the class had gone to college or had prepared themselves for successful careers.
They felt they owed much of their success to the superb instruction and encouragement they received while at Marshfield High School. They wanted to give back to the school that had given them such a good start, setting up a fund that would award grants to teachers at Marshfield High School. The grant program was designed to enhance and reward innovative teaching, learning, and special motivational activities at the high school and middle school levels. This year marks the class of 1954s 60th reunion! And what a fabulous achievement this fund has provided!
The fund has given 39 grants for about $93,000 over the past seventeen years. The fund has sponsored a very diverse range of projects. It has supported students receiving poetry instruction and inspiration from a American Players Theatre guest speaker, equipment for the Physics Lab to study car collisions and structural design, the purchase of graphing calculators for the chemistry laboratory, a landscaping project for the area around the Marshfield High School Sign, a grant to help the Marshfield Outdoor Learning Sanctuary construct an outdoor science classroom, and even CPR and basic first aid for middle school students. This year the fund approved $50,000 to help improve the athletic facilities in our community.
Wow, how fortunate we are to have caring individuals like this group! They realized what a good education they received and wanted to give back to the school in such a way that the students of MHS would benefit.
The Class of ’54 Grant is another addition to MACF’s long list of contributions to the community, which include the Adler Kodiak Bear Exhibit at the Wildwood Zoo, Wildwood Station, Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library, Hackman Field, the Youth Baseball fields, Weber Park, Hamus Park, Hardacre Park, Braem Park Disk Golf, the Skate Park, Boson Tennis Complex, Tiny Tiger Intergenerational Center, the ACE Academy, Griese Park, and many, many more.
A tax exempt, non-profit organization, MACF uses public support to better connect those with a cause in mind to its completion while taking care of administrative tasks, and continues to establish permanent, named funds for public benefit.
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