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BACKBACK “A Sentimental and Useful Memento”
This set of four Wedgewood plates was commissioned in 1953 as a fundraiser for the Taft Alumni Association. The sepia images on the plates were designed by Clare Leighton, a well-known artist, engraver, and author who settled in the area near Watertown. Her images of HDT and CPT capture a quietness on campus. These plates were “sold without profit,” as the 1954 Taft Bulletin said, at $12 a set and were only available to alumni and friends of the school.
—Beth Nolan Lovallo ’93, The Leslie D. Manning Archives 1 2
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This original ad is from the back inside cover of the winter 1954 Bulletin. The plates must have sold out quickly, as the only two ads were in the fall 1953 and winter 1954 Bulletins.
The plates are named: 1. The Pond and Building 2. School from the Hill 3. Headmaster’s Circle 4. Front Campus
The set of four plates was dedicated to former headmasters Horace Taft and Paul Cruikshank. They were released about halfway through Mr. Cruikshank’s tenure.
Gifting Real Estate to can enhance your income, provide tax benefits, and protect your family.
If you are considering downsizing but need income from your property, please consider a gift of real estate to Taft. Whether you make a charitable gift of your marketable, mortgage-free residence, vacation home, or investment realty, you can use strategies to:
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Take this example of a recent gift of real estate to Taft: an alumnus gifted a summer home on the Connecticut shore to Taft. Taxes and operating costs for the house had exceeded $30,000 per year, and the house had become financially burdensome. By gifting the property to Taft, the donor and his spouse received a 6% lifetime remainder trust income stream. The remainder ultimately provided a full boarding scholarship named in the donors’ honor, as well as ensuring perpetual remembrance of the donor and his spouse.
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