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Scholarship Fund Endowd by ex-Selectman Cadenhead
By Dan Sapir
Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007
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Marjorie Cadenhead’s life changed dramatically several years ago when, her husband Harley began to slip into poor health. The two Wapping Road residents who had lived in Kingston and served the community throughout those 60 years, moved 3,000 miles across the country to Spokane, Washington where they had family to look over them. In April of last year, Harley passed away. Marjorie told us then that she would "bring Harley home", and so she did, for Memorial Day in May. Instead of marching with his fellow veterans, as he did each year, Harley’s ashes were interred at a family plot in the Evergreen Cemetery. "Although we never discussed what he wanted, I knew in my heart this was what he would have wanted. Kingston was our home" said Marjorie.
Between the two, they held many town positions; each served as Selectmen, there were terms on the Regional School Committee, Board of Health, Conservation Commission, 275 Celebration Committee, Assessor and the list goes on. Harley was elected to the first Sewer Commission and served two three year terms.
The Cadenheads had an abiding respect for education and had together discussed establishing a scholarship fund in order to assist youngsters in realizing the opportunity to attend college. Marjorie put that dream into action last week when she sent a $20,000 endowment check to Town Clerk Mary Lou Murzyn who also serves on the Town of Kingston Education Trust Fund Committee. The annual award of $1,000 will go to a "Kingston student." It will be up to the Committee to make that award with the assurances that it will be a resident of Kingston. The text of the letter from Cadenhead reads: Dear Trustees of the Kingston Educational Fund,
I would like to establish a scholarship fund in the memory of Harley and Marjorie Cadenhead. Enclosed please find a check for the amount of $20,000.00. A scholarship is to be awarded to a graduating senior from the town of Kingston, MA who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, who has contributed to the Kingston community and has a financial need. This student should be accepted at a four year college and the scholarship would be awarded yearly to an eligible graduating senior.
Harley and I lived in Kingston for 60 years, having moved to Kingston in 1946. We purchased land and built our home on Wapping Road. Our five children were born in Kingston, went to Kingston Elementary school and graduated from Silver Lake High School and then they each went off to college.
My family knows how necessary an education is and what it means when there is help from people who care and appreciate an education.
I still consider Kingston my home and will someday return.
Cordially, Marjorie Cadenhead Marjorie is hoping to visit her many friends in Kingston this summer and is looking forward to spending Christmas in Colorado with family who also live there. "I am not looking forward to the flights, I’m not as young as I used to be."
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