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Encourage
Promising French Students
Give a Donation to the Robert
McFarland Memorial Book Awards Fund
The
Alliance Française of Hartford has for many years recognized the most
promising
students of French with a book and a certificate given at a ceremony
held in
their honor each spring. In the fall of 2006, the Board of Directors of
the
Alliance Française of Hartford established an Annual Giving Society to
recognize charitable contributions for the purpose of supporting the
Robert
McFarland Memorial Book Awards.
After
the death of past AFH President Robert McFarland after a long battle
with
cancer in May, 2002, memorial contributions from Bob’s family and
friends
poured into the Alliance
as per Bob’s expressed wishes. It was felt fitting to dedicate these
funds to
the purchase of books for the Book Awards Ceremony and the Awards
officially
became known as the Robert
McFarland
Book Award Ceremony.
This
fund has continued to support the purchase of books for the past five
years,
but it needs new benefactors to sustain it. Please consider becoming
one of our
“bienfaiteurs” and choose to give at one of the following levels:
- $25 - $99
Ami(e) de St. Exupéry
- $100 - $199
Ami(e) de Molière
- $200 - $299
Ami(e) de Balzac
- $300+ Ami(e) de
Hugo
All
donors will be recognized on our website and donors at the highest
level will
be invited to attend the Book Awards reception to be recognized there
as well.
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AFH Awards
The
Harpin-Rohinsky scholarship administered by
the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving is available to students of
French in
the Greater Hartford area. It provides
$3,000 which can be renewed for 3 more years of higher education, as
long as
the recipient studies French every year.
The Robert McFarland Memorial
Book Award
organized by the AFH each year is presented to deserving middle and
high school
students from the Greater Hartford area.
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