Foundation News
Your Support Enabled PAGE Foundation to Serve 2,000+ Students and Educators in 2015 The PAGE Foundation served more than 2,000 deserving Georgia students and professional educators in 2015 thanks to the generous support of loyal donors. Our “work” seems more like a calling, thanks to the young people we encounter and the selfless, remarkable educators who commit much of their lives to the education of Georgia students. Whether it is the PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades, the PAGE Georgia Academic Decathlon, the PAGE Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR) program or PAGE Foundation Scholarships, the foundation and PAGE provide the means and the platform for hardworking students and educators to demonstrate what is good in our schools. We are privileged to know these young people and educators, and we are grateful beyond words for donors who make our work possible. At 30 years of age, the foundation is also excited to see how students we helped in the past are now, as adults, investing their time and resources to help others. Chick-fil-A Foundation President Rodney Bullard was an Academic Bowl for Middle Grades student in the program’s sixth year of operation. Today, he oversees the charitable giving of Chick-fil-A, which recognizes the importance of education. YKK Corporation of America Chairman, President and CEO Alex Gregory, who was Putnam County’s 1966 STAR Student, says his life was changed by the STAR program, and today he changes lives for the better through mentoring. It is exciting to envision what the students we serve today will do with their lives and the investments they will make in subsequent generations. Thank you for your generous support of the PAGE Foundation. John Varner, President, PAGE Foundation
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March/April 2016
