Fourth Presbyterian School Receives $3.3 Million Scholarship Endowment
New Gift Brings the School's Endowments to over $8.5 Million
Potomac, MD (December 5, 2006)—The Fourth Presbyterian School has received an endowment of $3.3 million to support its student financial aid program. The gift is a trust from the estate of Linda Hamblen and is known as the Linder and Linda Hamblen Scholarship Endowment.
“We’re very excited about the gift,” said Douglas L. Crow, Executive Director. “The endowment will allow us to enhance our ability to provide need-based financial assistance. It’s also an affirmation of our unique mission, and signals the confidence that donors have placed in our ability to deliver an education of the highest quality standards for the children of Christian parents here in Montgomery County.”
“The endowment is also a gift to the community,” said Cynthia S. Mutryn, Principal. “By allowing us to prepare a new generation of outstanding young scholars of distinction and integrity, the endowment is also a gift to the larger Montgomery County community we are pleased to call home.”
The Hamblen Scholarship Endowment brings the school’s total endowments to over $8.5 million.
The Fourth Presbyterian School (www.fourthschool.org) is a
Christian school for children from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5. Founded in 1999, the school is located on a 30-acre wooded campus in Potomac, Maryland. The Fourth School’s mission is to pass on the best of our cultural inheritance in the light of a biblical worldview so that all students may know and pursue what is good, true and beautiful.
For Immediate Release
Ted Mueller
The Fourth Presbyterian School
tmueller@fourthschool.org
301.765.8136
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