In early 1992 five individuals, each with a common interest in promoting additional educational opportunities for students at Fairmont Senior High School, met and discussed possible initiatives to meet that need. The group included the Fairmont Senior Principal, a faculty member, a local attorney, the owner of an accounting firm, and a long-time, active community volunteer. Out of that meeting was born the Fairmont Senior High School Foundation.

Although the finer details of the Foundation’s mission have seen various minor refinements over the years, the basic purpose of the organization has remained the same; to provide a vehicle for raising and dispensing funds to assist the Faculty in their educational endeavors and providing funds for scholarships for graduating seniors.

I have been honored to serve as the only President of the Foundation since its inception. Because of the generosity of numerous supporters, our Foundation has continued to grow providing numerous monetary grants to meet Faculty needs and every year since the first has provided multiple scholarships to graduating seniors.

Although we have come a long way since that meeting in 1992, there is still much that needs to be done to assist our new group of seniors each year as well as our faculty, who are increasingly asked to do more and more with less support. As post secondary education costs continue to increase dramatically, our new graduates each year face increasing financial obstacles to furthering their education, all at a time when that additional education is becoming a necessity to enter the work force.

Our Foundation is a volunteer organization and definitely needs the maximum support from you and our entire worldwide Fairmont Senior High School community, both in terms of your willingness to work and your financial assistance. With your commitment of service and your valued financial backing, we can continue to provide necessary program reinforcement for our highly respected faculty. And perhaps most important of all, we can help assure that an ever growing portion of each year’s newly minted graduates embark on their chosen career path with a much needed monetary jump-start to encourage early success in their life’s work.