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Late AHS teacher endows RS-M high
8/7/2008 11:32 PM
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Many longtime Aiken County residents will recall Margaret Cato as their business teacher at Aiken High School.
"She was tough," said Barbara Smoak, a former student of Cato and the education outreach director at the Savannah River Site. "But when you got to college, you were grateful that she had set such high expectations because you were well-prepared."
Cato died in 2007, but she will continue to influence high school students. She left an initial gift of $350,000 to endow a permanent college scholarship fund for the students of Ridge Spring-Monetta High School.
"Her home was located across the street from the school, and she had a soft spot in her heart for it," Smoak said.
The endowment will be established at Public Education Partners, an Aiken-based education foundation. PEP is proud to be the home of the scholarship fund and will undertake management of the assets to help students for years to come, said PEP board chairman Chris Verenes. The PEP endowment committee includes Regions Bank City Manager Barry Adams, attorney Buzz Rich and Richard Hazen of Wachovia Bank.
The Margaret Cato scholarships will be awarded based on academic excellence, community service and financial need to one or more graduating seniors at RS-M. Applications will be available at the high school. Winners will be selected by a special committee with the involvement of the Cato family.
"We want to be sure that Ms. Cato's wish to help the students of Ridge Spring-Monetta High will be carried out as best we can," said her niece and the estate's personal representative, Glenda Corbett. "Teaching was her life, and she truly cared about her students."
The Cato family and PEP officials hope that other gifts will be made to the fund. Such donations are tax-deductible. PEP's goal is to build a strong endowment for Aiken County's public schools, where half of the students come from low-income homes.
PEP has raised more than $2 million to improve classrooms but a permanent endowment would ensure a strong foundation for the future, said PEP Executive Director Diane Mangiante.
For more information about PEP and the endowment program, call 649-9040.
8/7/2008 11:32 PM
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Many longtime Aiken County residents will recall Margaret Cato as their business teacher at Aiken High School.
"She was tough," said Barbara Smoak, a former student of Cato and the education outreach director at the Savannah River Site. "But when you got to college, you were grateful that she had set such high expectations because you were well-prepared."
Cato died in 2007, but she will continue to influence high school students. She left an initial gift of $350,000 to endow a permanent college scholarship fund for the students of Ridge Spring-Monetta High School.
"Her home was located across the street from the school, and she had a soft spot in her heart for it," Smoak said.
The endowment will be established at Public Education Partners, an Aiken-based education foundation. PEP is proud to be the home of the scholarship fund and will undertake management of the assets to help students for years to come, said PEP board chairman Chris Verenes. The PEP endowment committee includes Regions Bank City Manager Barry Adams, attorney Buzz Rich and Richard Hazen of Wachovia Bank.
The Margaret Cato scholarships will be awarded based on academic excellence, community service and financial need to one or more graduating seniors at RS-M. Applications will be available at the high school. Winners will be selected by a special committee with the involvement of the Cato family.
"We want to be sure that Ms. Cato's wish to help the students of Ridge Spring-Monetta High will be carried out as best we can," said her niece and the estate's personal representative, Glenda Corbett. "Teaching was her life, and she truly cared about her students."
The Cato family and PEP officials hope that other gifts will be made to the fund. Such donations are tax-deductible. PEP's goal is to build a strong endowment for Aiken County's public schools, where half of the students come from low-income homes.
PEP has raised more than $2 million to improve classrooms but a permanent endowment would ensure a strong foundation for the future, said PEP Executive Director Diane Mangiante.
For more information about PEP and the endowment program, call 649-9040.
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