$1 million gift

Northfield Mount Hermon receives $1 million from alumna

Mount Hermon, MA—A Northfield Mount Hermon alumna from the class of 1973 has contributed an unrestricted gift of $1 million to her alma mater. The school will use the gift to help support students, faculty, and academic programs. Head of School Thomas K. Sturtevant announced the news during the school’s recent convocation weekend. "An anonymous gift of this magnitude signals how deeply graduates love Northfield Mount Hermon," said Sturtevant. "Not wishing to draw attention to herself, this alumna was motivated solely by a desire to make a difference through a leadership gift that will allow us to invest in key strategic priorities. Support from alumni sustains and strengthens NMH, and this donor's gift is just the latest example of graduates wanting to give back to a school they believe gave them so much."

In January 2004 the Northfield Mount Hermon Board of Trustees voted to consolidate the two-campus school to one and to adjust the size of the student body in order to strengthen its distinctive academic offerings and create a closer community. Since then the school's highly successful fundraising efforts have helped build the endowment, school programs, student scholarship funds, faculty chair appointments, and facilities. In the last three years the school’s endowment has grown 36 percent to $167.5 million. NMH also constructed two new dormitories and broke ground for a new $29 million arts center, due to open in the fall of 2008.

The donor said she is pleased with the progress the school has made since the trustees’ decision nearly four years ago. “I’m incredibly proud of Northfield Mount Hermon—both the school I attended in the ‘70s and the NMH of today—and I’m excited about its future. The strong leadership in place has demonstrated its commitment to the school’s continued growth, while not straying from its founding principles and mission. NMH was a happy and balanced place for me, and I want to contribute towards maintaining the wonderful NMH spirit.”

Contact: Deb Holman, 413-498-3376 or dholman@nmhschool.org, or Kate Snyder, 413-498-3357 or ksnyder@nmhschool.org.

Top of Page