Thousands of Acts of Service

ONE DAY OF TONY FISHER-INSPIRED LOVE

M.Anthony “Tony” Fisher ’69 loved Cushing Academy. A dedicated trustee and philanthropist, he died in a plane crash on the way to visit campus in 2003. Each spring our community spends a full day in his memory caring for others through acts of service.

For Tony Fisher Day 2022, Penguins volunteered at five state parks and land trusts, two farms, three churches, two libraries, three food banks, two Little League fields, one historical site, and Cushing’s own campus.

“Tony Fisher Day is easily one of my favorite days of the year,” says Donny Connors, Cushing’s student activities director. “It’s a day that Cushing puts its best foot forward and heads out into the community to give back in a variety of different ways. When talking to students at the end of the day, it’s evident that they end up getting just as much out of the experience as they give, and it is something that will follow them later on in life.”

SO MUCH ACCOMPLISHED!

> Sorted 6,000 cans

> Made more than 2,000 meals

> Assembled more than 500 bags of food

> Put up 200+ yards of fencing

> Bagged over 200 bags of leaves

> Relocated more than 100 picnic tables

> Moved hundreds of rocks

> Cooked and packaged over 60 gluten-free meals

> Spread 5 dump trucks of mulch

> Planted 5 trees

> Rerouted a stream

> Cleared more than a mile and a half of roadside trash