Herb and Susan Zarkin Visit

Caroline Dane admires the student art that was presented to the Zarkins.

Our students presented the Zarkin's with original student art.

Recently, our Project Forward students shared with BJ's Chairman, Herb Zarkin and his wife, Susan, their college and Cardinal Cushing experience. The generosity of the Zarkin Family Foundation provided funding for our students to attend Cape Cod Community College.

Governor and Kitty Dukakis visit Cushing

Our Leadership Team were as excited as our students.

This week we were treated to a real thrill as history came to life for us in Hanover. Governor Michael Dukakis, who served as governor for 12 years, visited classrooms and work sites, delighting students and staff with stories of Massachusetts and national issues and politics. It was a timely visit since our students are studying Massachusetts. They even joined in classroom activities in the Challenger classroom. While we were all excited to meet someone who contributed so much to our state and our country, we were equally impressed with Kitty's work in Kenya  and for sharing with staff her battle with depression and her advocacy on behalf of others. Her book, Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy, is a moving account of her battle and healing.  We wish them both happiness and thank them for spending a rainy afternoon with us. Enjoy the pictures:

The Governor is about to help our students with a map of MA by filling in Brookline

We believe!!

I Am Proud to Work at a Non Profit

From the Board Cafe...

The most listened-to radio show in America got it wrong again last week. Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh said about nonprofit staff: "Bunch of lazy idiots. Many of them don’t want to really work. Nonprofits siphon contributions . . . these people are rapists, in terms of finance and economy."


We like what Robert Egger had to say on the subject, but maybe Rush is right for once. We nonprofit staff are so lazy we would rather follow environmental regulations than create huge amounts of work for ourselves trying to cap mismanaged oil wells. We're so lazy we'd rather advocate for preventive care than suffer from chronic illness and expensive treatments. Most nonprofit staff are so lazy they don't even bother to collect paychecks: they're volunteers.

And talk about idiotic: we're such idiots we thought we could get the vote for women, Medicare for the elderly, and regulations against unsafe toys. We thought it was okay for kids in wheelchairs to go to regular schools. We thought we could overturn apartheid in South Africa.

If we're accomplishing this much being "lazy idiots," maybe by working a little harder we could get rid of hateful, inaccurate radio hosts?

Special Olympics: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day

Special Olympics: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day

Jennifer Aniston uses the R-word

'Finally! FMAP Passes House, Mass Share: $506 Million'

'Finally! FMAP Passes House, Mass Share: $506 Million'

I Want to go to College-And At Cushing Our Students Do!!