The Fitzie Foundation

Who is The Fitzie Foundation

The Fitzie Foundation is a non-profit foundation* established by friends and family in memory of Margaret Fitzgerald Grogan Petersmeyer. The Founda tion's purpose is to recognize and reward outstanding girls and young women from the institutions that featured most prominently in Fitzie's life, including Tenacre Country Day School, Dana Hall School, Harvard/Radcliffe College, the Harvard Business School, and others. Every spring the Foundation's Trustees select several young women in whom the Trustees recognize many of Fitzie's most outstanding qualities. The award presented to each is twofold. First, the selectee receives a monetary grant whose purpose is to assist in the further development of her character, interests and talents. Under the guidance of the Trustees, each recipient then determines how the award could be most valuable to her. In the past, Foundation grants have been used for such diverse purposes as tuition, travel or living abroad, and lessons in a master class or other instruction in a field where the recipient has shown extraordinary promise. Second, the recipients will be given a commitment of ongoing support of a nonfinancial nature through "Friends of the Fitzie Foundation," an ever-growing network of past winners and Foundation supporters. The Trustees award fellowships to young women who possess a combination of the characteristics which Fitzie reflected in her life: pursuit of excellence, exceptional skill and dedication in a special area of interest or expertise, leadership, commitment to the community, academic excellence, a sense of exuberance, adventure and new horizons, compassion and understanding. In short, the Trustees look for individuals who are both outstanding in a specific respect and demonstrate balance, humanness and a strong system of personal values. Fitzie's friends came from a remarkably broad range of backgrounds and represented an incredibly wide variety of interests. All those who contribute to the Foundation's endowment become "Friends of the Fitzie Foundation. ...Read more

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