PHINNEY-GLEASON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
NACCP is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization and contributions to the scholarship fund are U.S. tax-deductible. Donations in any amount are appreciated. We will send a letter acknowledging your contribution.
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Financial Assistance
Financial Assistance (scholarship) is available to classroom teachers who wish to participate in our training opportunities held online via Zoom. Send an e-mail to our Scholarship Chair explaining your need.
About the Scholarship Fund
In the summer of 1997 the NACCP started a scholarship fund to provide teachers some money to attend an NACCP sponsored activity. The original account was named The Phinney Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of Ed Phinney, who was responsible for adapting the British version of the Cambridge Latin Course for a North American audience.
Ed understood what a wonderful opportunity for teaching Latin this series provides and he worked tirelessly to produce materials for students and teachers alike. Ed, along with his good friend Bill Gleason, laid the foundations of the work of the North American Cambridge Classics Project and provided workshops or tours every summer to train teachers in the reading approach and to expose them to the sites mentioned in the series.
Bill Gleason became the first director of the Resource Center, which he lovingly ran for many years from his basement. When Bill passed away a little more than a year after Ed, the NACCP decided to rename the account the Phinney-Gleason Memorial Scholarship Fund to reflect the group’s respect for the work of these two dedicated and beloved individuals. All of us at the NACCP thank you in advance for your consideration in keeping Ed’s and Bill’s educational dream alive.
The NACCP continues to enlarge the endowment of the Phinney-Gleason Scholarship Fund in order to provide more funding for scholarship recipients to attend the summer workshop.