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Big thanks to our awesome Woburn community for making this year’s Women’s Forum & Purse Raffle another great success!  Your support helps to fund this year’s Educator Grants, which provides resources for creative classroom-based programs and educational initiatives that support student achievement and that cannot be funded by the regular school budget.

A very special thanks to our featured keynote speaker, Candy O’Terry, who was charming and so very fun!  She spent time at almost every table at the event, and shared with us not only her story, but her “16 Life Lessons” as well.  It is no wonder that so many women turn to her for motivation, support and inspiration.  Thank you, Candy, for donating your time to support our schools!

We appreciate the continued support of our sponsors, whose leadership support ensure our success.  These leaders include our Presenting Sponsor J. Mulkerin Realty, Keynote Sponsors Rick Metters & Maura Embler, and Salem Five Charitable Foundation.  Special thanks also goes to Joe Cuozzo of Bay State Tee Shirt Supply, who donates a Woburn sweatshirt each year for our keynote speaker.

This year’s Purse Raffle was our most successful yet, due to the generous support of our Purse Donors and Sponsors, to include:  Peggy Adams, Joe & Audrey Crowley, G.W. Gately, Little Folks Day School, Robert E & Karen Maguire, the Malcolm White Elementary School Educators and Staff, Michael Martini, Donald & Janet Queenin, Judith Scott, Stanton & Company, CPA’s, Nancy Whalen, Woburn Teachers Association, and Woburn Travel.  Thank you all for this outstanding support!

And a special thank you to all in attendance, for your support of WCEF and the Woburn Public Schools!

View the Photo Gallery on our Women’s Forum Event Page.

See you next year!

cialis kaufen check here Each year the WCEF is invited to attend a meeting of the Woburn School Committee to provide an update on the past year’s activities and news of future projects.  We are proud to this report with the Woburn community.

Educator Grants:  This year, through the generosity of our community, for the first time we were able to fund 100% of the grant requests received through our Educator Grant Program.  In total, more than $23,000 has been gifted to the schools to support 27 new and innovative projects; WCEF funds are now at work supporting Woburn educators at every school in the district.

In just four years, the Woburn Community Educational Foundation has raised funds in excess of $175,000 and invested these resources back into our schools.  Our Educator Grants Program has funded 75 new school based projects that could not be funded by the regular school budget.  Winning Home, a local foundation formed to support programs for Woburn children, has invested a total of $20,000 specifically to support new initiatives for our most at-risk students.  In year 2 of our Cummings Foundation “100k for 100” grant, almost 500 children in grades K-5 at every elementary school in the district continue to improve their reading skills with the Lexia Program.  And again this year, every kindergarten student received a brand new book as a way to welcome them to our schools and encourage reading in the home.

All that we have accomplished has only inspired us to do more. During this past year members of the WCEF Board joined with members of the administration at WMHS to forge a partnership to develop a new program to benefit our schools:  a Woburn Hall of Fame for Achievement, Community Contributions and Athletics.

Woburn Memorial High School has a proud and distinguished tradition of educational excellence and athletic achievement.  This Hall of Fame has been established to recognize those individuals whose integrity, achievements, sportsmanship and character have enhanced the overall educational experience of our youth, and inspired pride in our community.

The Woburn Hall of Fame will honor contributions in sports, and will include categories for individual athletes, teams, coaches, and community members.  It will also honor distinguished alumni who have achieved remarkable success in industry or have made outstanding contributions to society.

In the fall of 2018, the Woburn Hall of Fame will open for nominations from our community. Details on the guidelines and the application process will be made public at that time.  The first slate of candidates to be inducted will be announced in the Spring of 2019, with formal ceremonies in June.

We look forward to bringing our community an event that will duly honor those who have sustained Woburn Memorial High School’s proud and distinguished tradition of educational excellence and athletic achievement as well as invest in the next generation of outstanding scholars and athletes.

In the spring of 2016, WCEF awarded a grant to Reeves School art teacher Marie LaCour to fund the creation and installation of three mosaic panels to commemorate Woburn history.

Under the supervision of visiting artist Cynthia Fisher, working with Ms. LaCour and parent volunteers, students from the 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th grades created three mosaic works of art.

Carefully made from pieces of tile and glass, each depicts a scene from Woburn’s history:  settlement, colonial times and the rise in industry.

The panels were recently installed in the school lobby to be enjoyed by the entire Reeves community.

We applaud the efforts of the teachers and students -thank you for inviting WCEF to share in this project!