The Hal Launders Alice Launders Webb Pay it Forward Scholarship

March is the best month of the year to remember Harold Launders and his sister, Alice Launders Webb -the brother and sister for whom the Hal Launders Alice Launders Webb Pay it Forward Scholarship at St Lawrence University in Canton, NY was named.

Hal and Alice’s Birthday Cake in 1975

The siblings were both born in March, two years apart, in Greenwich Connecticut in 1908 and 1910 respectively.

They both attended St Lawrence University, Hal with help from the Charles Kelsey Gaines Fund graduating in 1932 and Alice as an older than average student graduating in 1937. Alice had worked several years before matriculating at St Lawrence which she accomplished with the help of her brother Hal. Both Majored in English.

Yearbook Photo of Hal Launders

Alice died at age 68 on May 15, 1978, and on December 29, 1979, just one and a half years after her death, her brother Hal donated the first $10,000 to what was then known as the Hal Launders Alice Launders Webb Student Loan Fund.

Yearbook Photo of Alice Launders Webb

In his letter to Peter Ticconi Jr– then Director of Capital Support Programs at St Lawrence -Hal made this promise,” This is the initial contribution. More will be forthcoming but not on any prearranged schedule. Just when circumstances permit, either from me or from my estate.”

In May 1982, W. Lawrence Gullick, acting from the Office of the President, sent Mr. Launders a letter to inform him that the Scholarship had been wrapped into a newly formed million-dollar financial aid endowment fund.

Hal died in 1996 with the promise of more donations still on the table.

In 2007 Emily Webb -Alice’s granddaughter and Hal’s great niece – decided mid-year that she wanted to transfer from a college in Boston to St Lawrence. David Webb (Emily’s father and my brother, Hal’s nephew and Alice’s son) and I, drove Emily up to St Lawrence University in Canton, NY. There we first met with the Development Office and asked about the already established Hal Launders and Alice Launders Webb Loan Fund for Emily and found out that this fund was now part of a much larger endowed fund with the Launders amount worth $100,000.

Emily Webb graduated in 2012 and by 2013 the Trustees of the Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust were getting ready to make their first round of Board Level Grants. Eugenie Webb Maine (daughter of Alice and niece of Hal) reached out to Tom Pynchon, Director of Principal Gifts at St Lawrence, to inquire about extracting the $100,000 Launders grant from the endowment fund therefore making it possible for the Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust family Trustees to sponsor a grant of a $100,000 to add to the existing $100,000 for a total of $200,000. Tom responded to this query in a letter to the Family Trustees on August 30, 2013, and explained that in the changing field of philanthropy most named grants had disappeared.  He indicated that a great way to keep this named fund was to endow a Pay it Forward Scholarship. To quote Tom Pynchon, “I would like to make the following proposal for the family Trustees to consider: The Pay it Forward Scholarship. I think you will find this scholarship proposal unique and a difference maker for supporting scholarships. Not only does it help deserving students, but it also provides a mechanism to help teach the student recipients about philanthropy and giving back, just as Hal and Ruth Launders did with philanthropy.”

The $100,000 grant was delivered to St Lawrence University by the Launders Trust family Trustees in 2014 and since then five scholarships have been awarded. The recipients include the following: Matt Craighead ’16 – Fairfield, CT, Dillon Fitzpatrick ’18 – Darien, CT, Molly Wood ’18 – Salisbury, CT, Kylie Clancy ’20 – Glastonbury, CT, and Caitlyn Hone ’24 – Greenwich, CT.

The Market value of the Fund according to the latest activity report running from July 2022-June 30, 2023 is $232,437.

Here in Hal’s own words is “information about the only Launders left in our family.” “I was born March 18, 1908, in Greenwich Connecticut to Michael J and Alice Johnston Launders. My father came from Thurles in Tipperary and my mother from Prince Edward Island, Canada. I was the first child of that union (sister Alice was born two years later on 3/13/1910 ) but the 10th in the union of 2 families; my mother was a widow with 7 living children and my father a widower with 2 children when they merged.

My father was a building contractor who built residences and office buildings in the area, the most prominent perhaps is the Greenwich Town Hall which still stands today. My mother died when I was 11 years old and my sister Alice was 9. We were brought up by my oldest sister Mary, a school teacher who taught in Greenwich for 44 years. Mary broke her engagement to be married when her mother died to take care of Alice and myself and never married.”

Hal and Alice as children in the summer of 1920 after their mother died.

Both Hal and Alice graduated St Mary’s Catholic High School in Greenwich and then went on to St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. Hal was the class Valedictorian of his High School Class and went on to St Lawrence with merit scholarship support and then stayed on in the “north country” after graduation doing a variety of jobs, including wresting promoter, working for the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid and stringer for the New York Times to name a few in order to raise funds for his younger sister Alice to attend St Lawrence ; which she did living off campus and working on some of her brother’s projects while matriculating in three years.

Although the siblings experience at St. Lawrence was very different; Hal belonged to a Fraternity and was very active in student life while Alice kept her nose to the grindstone in order to finish in three years not really participating much in campus life; they both had very fond memories of St. Lawrence and maintained lifelong friendships from their time there.

In 1994 two years before he died Hal Launders donated $4,000,000 to establish the J Harold Launders Science Library and Computing Center.

 Science Library and Computing Center at St Lawrence University

In the years following his death The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust has made several more donations to fund projects at St. Lawrence in Ruth and Hal Launders’ name.

 

 

 

 

 

Blog content provided by Eugenie Webb Maine

Eugenie Webb Maine

Eugenie is the niece of Harold Launders who set up the Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust before his death in 1996. She has been a Launders Trustee since that time.  Hal Launders is the brother of her mother Alice Launders Webb. 

 

Beautiful Day Youth Program Works!

Beautiful Day is a non-profit with a mission to work  together with refugees  supporting , orienting and educating  them as they  integrate into  American life. As part of the Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust Discretionary grants program, one of our Trustees has begun to award some $20,000 multi year (two year grants). To make the process as streamlined as possible this grantee was asked to resubmit the same application as the first year and instead  to spend that time and write a Blog post about the program to post it  on our grants site.

Trainees showcase some products.

Beautiful Day is a Providence-based nonprofit that provides paid, transitional job training for refugee adult and youth recently resettled in Rhode Island. Our trainees produce and package gourmet granolas, coffees and hummus and sell them at farmers markets, developing the skills, confidence and contacts they need to succeed in permanent jobs. This year, the Launders Family Charitable Trust provided a generous grant that we used to help support our youth program. We are grateful.

Our Refugee Youth Job Training Program serves 20 high-school-aged youth each year and consists of a 3-hour/week job readiness class and an 8-hour/week work experience component – an impressive time commitment. Classes and work take place after school and each youth receives a stipend of $4,680 for attending. The program is led by a gifted ESL teacher with the help of mentors, a case manager and a group of dedicated volunteers. Our most recent cohort began meeting last October and just ended with a celebratory graduation ceremony.

This program has proven life-changing for the youth who participate. Our graduates are now enrolled in colleges such as URI, Holy Cross, and Johnson & Wales. They are majoring in subjects like mathematics, computer science, and (believe it or not) neuroscience! We interview graduates one year after completing the program and the following quote is typical of what they tell us: “I’m at Rhode Island College studying graphic design. And I’m working part-time at Burlington Coat Factory in customer service. I would not have this job without Beautiful Day. I was a shy kid. I stuttered and my hands got sweaty and anxious. But when I went to the farmers markets I got to talk and I improved my communication skills and I’m not shy anymore. Now I’m talking to customers, like “How’s your day?”

Our graduates talk about the many ways our youth program helped them grow in confidence and become more aware of what’s possible for them. Young people who couldn’t make eye contact are studying to be police officers. Teens who were afraid to speak up are waiting tables at busy restaurants. Most of our trainees grew up in refugee camps and found the transition to life in America to be difficult. Refugee youth typically struggle to fit in academically and socially. Often subject to bullying, they are vulnerable to gang involvement. Most have little knowledge of American work culture and are not prepared to succeed at a job. Like all refugees, these young people will be eligible for citizenship 5 years after arrival. They will have opportunities to go to college, pursue careers, buy homes, and contribute to their communities as fully-integrated American citizens. They are eager to work and learn, but they need extra support, which our program provides.

Word has spread that our program works and we have a waiting list of youth who want to participate. We plan to expand to accommodate more refugee teens. Many thanks to the Launders Family Charitable Trust for supporting a program that is truly changing lives.

Blog content provided by Rebecca Garland, Associate Director at Beautiful Day

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Rebecca Garland

Rebecca is responsible for fund development and community education at Beautiful Day. Before joining Beautiful Day’s team in 2018, she taught literacy and ESOL to undereducated adults for over 20 years. She possesses a Doctorate in Human Development & Psychology from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and has taken an active role in helping to develop the educational programs for refugee youth and adults at Beautiful Day. As the daughter of a refugee herself, she knows how hard it is to rebuild after losing one’s home.

 

Launders Charitable Trust Continues Its Support of the Community Hospice House of Richmond VA

Jeff Fairfield and Jerry Lonnes  present a check to Kyle Clark of the Community Hospice House of Richmond

RHLCT Co-Trustee Jerry Lonnes and RHLCT Executive Director Jeff Fairfield present a check for $10,000 to Kyle Clark, MSN, RN, Head Nurse at the Community Hospice House of Richmond.  This grant was approved and funded by the RHLCT Board of Trustees this summer to support the on-going capital campaign to expand the capacity of the Richmond Community Hospice House.  A facility operated by Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation, the 16-bed facility in suburban Richmond provides compassionate, end-of-life care to terminally ill residents and their families.  Since 2015, The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust has awarded grants totaling $162,500 to the Community Hospice House of Richmond.

Potholes on the Road to Development

Health Access Sumbawa (HAS) does malaria control and community development work on a shoestring budget in a roadless area of Sumbawa, a relatively poor Island in Eastern Indonesia.  In 2015 we set out to control malaria in three remote villages for the price of a car. Remarkably, we succeeded. Our systematic program involves prevention measures such as hanging insecticide treated bed-nets in every home, then screening the population for malaria with a microscope and providing effective treatment. * 

Five years ago the coastal farming village of Sili (where HAS is based) had every development challenge you could think of: No reliable road, not much electricity, no public water, no toilets, no employers, no health clinic, no shops, no schooling past the 6th grade. 

Everyone wants the benefits of technology. We take our comforts for granted and sometimes forget that there are millions of people still living without such luxuries as running water or a toilet. Poverty is a major hurdle to overcome, but lack of money is not the whole story.  Large well-funded development projects can fail just as spectacularly as small grassroots efforts. There are many potholes on the road to development. 

What follows is a series of personal stories and lessons gleaned from working in Sumbawa at the grass-roots level over the past five years. 

The significance of roads 

Everything we do is made so much harder because Sili village in central Sumbawa has no reliable road connecting it to the outside world. Some might say the area is not exactly roadless. there is a dirt track that’s passable by a 4 x 4 truck or a strong motorbike on a dry day. But after a rain, not even a dirt bike can make it up the steep greasy mountain track to Tolo’oi. Walking out is your only safe option in any weather.

rutted roads in sumbawa

The lack of reliable roads in Sili Village is a real issue for its inhabitants.

A road connects a community to hospitals, schools, government services, buyers and sellers.  Minor equipment failures such as a broken pull cord on a chain saw can delay projects for days or weeks in a roadless area. No reliable transport means the sick stay home in bed instead of going to hospital, students quit school after the 6th grade rather than go out for junior high, farmers sell their crop at lower prices to the only broker who comes to their village, people go hungry when they run out of food in their kitchen, and government planners fail to fund development projects because so few people have ever visited the community to see the problems. 

Road construction is beyond the scope of Health access Sumbawa activities. Nevertheless, we needed a transportation strategy. 

  1. We lobby elected officials for a road. I’ve found it’s most effective to emphasis the economic potential of the roadless area rather than complain about the hardship of living off the grid. I’m sure the Bupati (the area regent-an elected position) had never heard of Sili and it’s “best beach in Sumbawa” before I told him about it. The next year there was a plan (but no funding yet) to build a road.
  2. We develop relationships with strong skillful motorbike drivers to “taxi” HAS nurses and administrators around.
  3. We found a reliable fishing boat captain for water taxi. HAS supplies passengers with U.S. Coastguard approved life jackets.
  4. We bought two 29-inch mountain bikes for the clinic. Human-powered. Large wheels to handle rough terrain. Faster than walking. 

Electricity- What went wrong with the ambitious solar grid? 

A reliable source of electricity is another cornerstone of development. Even people in off-the-grid communities depend on cell phones and rechargeable battery powered lights these days. 

In 2013 the government built a small community-based solar powered grid for Sili village. It was state-of-the art. Every home was connected by cable. The solar panels, inverters and batteries at the power company headquarters provided every home with enough power for a few lights, cell phone charging, and maybe a TV set for an hour each evening. the system even included street lights for the village. 

The grid worked well for a year or two but by 2016 there were frequent periods of no service. One problem was cheating. Many people wanted to run a water pump or a TV. Homeowners soon figured out that they could bypass the metered connection to their house and take unlimited power directly from the pole. This caused the system to crash. Half the rate-payers stopped paying their modest $2 a month utility bill so the service technician stopped responding to calls. 

There has been no electricity in the village for the past two years except at the power house. The three-room utility building has become a central charging station for phones and flashlights from all over the village. The room is a maze of power cords. People have decided that a central charging station is their greatest need for electricity. They’ve abandoned hope for a power grid that delivers electricity to their homes. 

What went wrong? Perhaps the whole concept was too complex and, in the end, delivered too little power. The goal was to provide 300 watts per household, which is not enough to run water pumps, refrigerators, or power tools. People would still need a gasoline or propane generator for that. The grid never addressed that need. 

With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that there were more appropriate solutions to meet the modest power generation goals of the project. Two alternatives are: 

  1. Solar charging stations distributed around the village.
  2. A decentralized program that places mini solar panels on each home. This decentralized concept solves several of the fatal flaws of the centralized grid.  It eliminates the problem of cheating, and pushes responsibility for maintenance down to the individual household level. When a system fails, only one house is affected.
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    Solar powered lights are a reliable source in Sumbawa.

 

Some of the personal solar power technology available today is astonishingly good. One of my favorites is Waka Waka Power +, a solar powered power bank and LED light the size of a hand phone. The light is bright enough for my old eyes to read the smallest type, and the battery lasts many hours. We also use cheap solar-powered security lights for general lighting. They activate by a motion detector, so you have to wave at the unit from time to time to keep it on, which is amusing at first but eventually becomes second nature. You can also hang the light from a string and spin it, creating a disco effect. Yes, we actually do that. 

Toilets-  The dangers of doing it badly. 

Promoting Toilets is another goal everyone can agree on. What could possibly go wrong? A few years ago the village government gave three bags of cement to every house as a way to encourage people to build toilet houses. Unfortunately, there was no design guidance, no supervision, no follow-up. Most people sold their bags of cement. A few toilets were built, mostly too close to their water well. The septic tank design was faulty, and within a year raw sewage was visible on the surface of the ground. 

A bad toilet is much worse than no toilet at all.  It becomes a hazardous waste site. The traditional “jungle floor toileting” used by people in rural communities disburses the waste over a large area where it breaks down quickly. It is nature’s system. As we promote widespread use of toilets, we really must teach about the risks of bad waste water system design. 

Health Access Sumbawa has built four toilets in Sili village in the past three years. One is a public bathhouse/toilet in front of our clinic. We consciously designed the building site so the septic tank/field could be at least thirty meters from any well.  Our toilets are the only ones in Sili village to have running water. By the way, the primary school in Sili village has neither a toilet nor water.

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A squat toilet is available in the public bath house in Sili Village.

Few people used the public bath house the first year, perhaps thinking it could not possibly be for them.  By the second year it became so popular we had a problem supplying enough water. People started to complain that the water tank was often empty when they wanted to shower. We have since added a second tower and another 1,100-liter tank. 

Pumping water while off the grid 

It is challenging to provide running water to a community with no electricity or public water system. You need electricity to run a water pump, unless you are lucky enough to have an elevated water source such as a mountain spring which flows by gravity. 

We dig or bore a well by hand, then pump water into a 1,100-liter water tank which sits on top of a tower. The tower is not expensive to build. We construct it from local timber which has been milled into columns and planks using a chain saw. Once the tank is filled, gravity provides the water pressure. This works fine as long as your taps are lower than the bottom of the tank. 

There are three ways we could pump water without a power grid. 

  1. Use a generator to power an electric water pump.
  2. use a gasoline-powered portable water pump.
  3. Use a solar or wind powered water pump. 

Our first choice would be solar powered, because the fuel is delivered for free. Re-supplying propane canisters or gasoline cans is difficult and time consuming in a roadless area. It’s pretty common to run out of fuel, and resupply requires a full day of hazardous travel by motorbike.  Solar water pumps move low volumes of water continuously whenever the sun shines. They don’t pump when the sun doesn’t shine. The pumps we found seem to work best when residential use can be paired with a trickle irrigation system for a farm. This is fine if you have the right situation. We’re excited about trying this pairing idea at our Beach Farm after we get the beach cottage built. 

Solar pumps need a lot of storage capacity to perform satisfactorily in situations where demand for water peaks several times a day, such as a public bath house.  For this application, a gasoline powered water pump is our most practical solution. 

Advantages of portable water pumps- 

  • Move more water faster and with less fuel than a pump powered by a generator.
  • Are affordable, rugged and easy to service.
  • Can be transported on a motorbike. We plan to use one machine to fill tanks in multiple locations. 

Regarding safe drinking water, we have found that the Sawyer 0.10 microns hollow membranes water filter is reliable and easy/cheap to maintain. (Back-wash by hand. No replacement filters required). We have been using these for four years now. One unit can filter enough drinking water for several households and costs under $100. We have not tried to filter muddy water. Fortunately, our water doesn’t have sediment. 

Malaria control in three years- but no quick fix to sustain the gains. 

As with all HAS initiatives, sustaining progress is the hardest part of our malaria elimination work. There is no inoculation, no immunity for malaria. People suffer repeated bouts in endemic areas. The only way to sustain a low infection rate is to fund an ongoing health service. You need to provide primary health care with a malaria component. This is a much bigger mission than we originally signed up for. But there is no other choice. 

It turned out that HAS could step into this added role quickly and cheaply by partnering with the government health service. HAS already had one of the best health facilities in the region, the only clinic with running water. We hired the government nurses working in adjacent villages to come to Sili two days a week on a staggered schedule so our clinic is staffed and open 6 days a week. Primary health care at our clinic is free to the public, including medicines.

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A woman in Sili Village bathes an infant in fresh water.

Travel by motorbike over dirt trails is tough for the nurses, but the added income provides powerful motivation. Government salaries are so low, the nurses are able to double their monthly income by working two days a week for HAS. 

Small is beautiful 

HAS is a volunteer organization with no paid staff at headquarters. We have a strategic reason to stay small.  As social entrepreneurs, we want the enterprise to become self-sustaining one day. The goal of sustainability is more realistic if we keep our program in scale with the local economy. HAS is working toward a budget of $100,000/ year, which is significantly more than the government currently spends on health care in our expanded service area, which covers 50 kilometers x 15 kilometers and  about 7,000 people. 

Our operating budget for the clinic is just $20,000 a year. A $15,000 challenge grant provided by The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust (RHLCT.org) was the catalyst HAS needed to increase its total annual budget to $55,000 last year. These new resources allowed us to significantly expand our service area for malaria, and pursue a range of initiatives designed to improve access to clean water, sanitation, and adequate nutrition. 

A lesson in humility -The limits of technology 

One morning we were leaving Sili for a meeting in the city of Macassar. When I tried to fill the kettle to boil water for coffee, no water flowed from the tap. The 1,100-liter water tank had been drained dry by early bathers at the community bathhouse. I went to start the water pump but we were out of gasoline. To top it off, when I tried to light the two-burner stove in the kitchen, there was no flame. the propane canister was empty. Someone joked that we had timed our departure from Sili almost perfectly. 

For a few minutes we were baffled. Then the solution became obvious: We needed to revert back to the traditional way of doing things. Someone got a bucket and a piece of rope to take water from the well. Others built a cooking fire in the garden. Soon we were enjoying our campfire coffee and delicious grilled fish, fresh-caught during the night by our neighbor, a rare treat.  We had been humbled by the limitations of our hard-to-sustain technology, and were reminded that sometimes the old ways are most reliable. 

It’s not easy to design sustainable infrastructure which is as reliable as traditional methods. Poor people will not choose to cook with gas when firewood is free and readily available. A solar cooker is fine when the sun shines, but it’s useless on a rainy day, after dark or inside the house. A good gravel road is better than a thin asphalt one. Potholes in gravel can be patched with local materials.  Potholes in bad asphalt become money pits. 

We have learned that people often revert back to their traditional ways rather than fix technology when it stops working. People want technology, but it must be reliable, durable and affordable. Keep it simple and easy to maintain. Avoid products with “consumable” parts to buy, such as replacement water filters or disposable batteries. 

A squat toilet with a properly designed and located septic system is an example of old technology that works great. The squatting position is already used by villagers and is anatomically preferable to sitting, the toilet flushes with just a dipper of water, there are no moving parts to break, and no consumables to buy such as toilet paper. Users wash their bum with water using the dipper. Hundreds of millions of squat toilets are in use throughout Asia. 

Another old technology that has been updated is the mosquito net. Today’s nets, woven from polyester yarn, are less likely to get moldy than the old cotton ones. They can be impregnated with a safe long-lasting insecticide that immobilizes insects. We use WHO tested nets, Permanet 2.0 size 190 x 180 x150 cm. We can place three of these large nets in a home for about $30 to protect the entire family. Any tears or holes can be repaired with a needle and thread. 

There have been many potholes in the road to development in Sili. We fill them in as we go along as best we can. The journey continues to be the adventure of a lifetime.

*For more information about the HAS project in Sumbawa, see RHLCT.ORG under Grants (Discretionary).

Contributed by Jack Kennedy. Jack is the son of a public health doctor who specialized in tropical medicine. He grew up in the South Pacific and South East Asia. Jack went on to pursue a successful career in international business, including activities in Indonesia. A lot of his time since 2014 has been devoted to Health Access Sumbawa in his roles as founder, president, and chairman.

 

The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust Expands Its Support of Parks in Fairfax County

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Arrowbrook Centre Dog Park was dedicated in August 2018

The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust continues to enlarge upon its tradition of supporting parks in Fairfax County, Virginia. Drawing upon its past contributions of Arrowbrook Centre Park and the Arrowbrook Wetland Nature Preserve to the Fairfax County Park Authority in 2010 and 2011, in August 2018 the Trust dedicated the Arrowbrook Centre Dog Park. While not an asset of the Park Authority, the dog park is open to the public and serves residents of Arrowbrook Centre and its environs. The Dog Park is named in memory of the late L. Farnum Johnson, Jr., one of the Trust’s original 7 co-trustees and the first Chairman of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Johnson owned 2 Black Labrador Retrievers, Blackjack and Lucky, who always enjoyed their regular visits to local dog parks. Farnum’s long-held dream of a dog park at Arrowbrook Centre has not been fulfilled.

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Residents of Fairfax County enjoy a concert at Arrowbrook Park.

The Trust also continues as a sponsor and chief benefactor of an annual summer concert series held in Arrowbrook Centre Park on Saturday evenings in July and August. The series commemorates the life of Ruth Launders and her beloved Arrowhead Farm, now the site of the Arrowbrook Centre Park. This series will mark its 8th consecutive year in 2019.

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Margaret Thaxton, Director of Development, Fairfax Co Park Foundation, Jeff Fairfield, Trustee of the RHLCT and Paul Nicholson, Farm Manager, Frying Pan Historical Farm Park stand next to the “No Till” planter.

In addition, the Trust continues to expand on its support of Frying Pan Historical Farm Park, a popular Fairfax County park in Herndon. For many years, through a special agreement between the Trust and the Fairfax County Park Authority, the staff of Frying Pan has harvested hay at Arrowbrook Centre for use in feeding its livestock at Frying Pan Park. Last year, using a grant from the Trust to the Fairfax County Park Foundation, Frying Pan Park purchased a specialized “no-till” planter for its use in planting grass seed at various locations including Arrowbrook Centre.

 

 

Contributed by Jeffrey J. Fairfield. Jeff is a Virginia attorney who has practiced in Herndon, Virginia since 1978. He is also on the Board of Trustees of The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust.