Endowed Funds

Wilbraham & Monson is deeply appreciative of those alumni, parents, faculty and friends who have chosen to support the Academy in perpetuity through the creation of an endowed fund. Endowed funds provide WMA with long term financial support critical to our success in making transformational experiences for students. These funds provide unrestricted support for the Academy’s areas of greatest need, or for a specific purpose within the Academy’s mission which may include scholarship, academics, or faculty support. Those interested in adding to the future stability of the Academy by creating an endowed fund should contact the Office of Advancement. If you wish to make a contribution to an existing fund you may do so by clicking here. Please be sure to name the fund in the comments area of your gift.
Scholarship Funds
The Phil and Cecelie Cardone Scholarship
Established by Mr. Cardone - after a career spanning more than 50 years as an educator and coach, and honoring his first wife who was a Monson Academy librarian - to provide assistance to students with demonstrated financial need, academic success, and successfully competing in the Academy’s interscholastic programs in football, wrestling or lacrosse.
Robert T. Hale ’55W Scholarship
Established by his family in 2018, the Robert T. Hale ’55W Scholarship Fund supports a student or students whose financial stability has dramatically altered during their years at the Academy. If no such situation exists, the scholarship may be awarded to a student or students from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with financial need.
The Ratcliffe Hicks Memorial Fund
Created by Miss Elizabeth Hicks of West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1958 in honor of her father Ratcliffe Hicks, who attended Monson Academy in 1857 and 1858 and whose mother, Mariah Sterns, attended Monson Academy in 1837. The Ratcliffe Hicks Memorial Fund provides needed scholarship to an outstanding student with a preference for students from Connecticut.
The Parker Hodgman '55M Memorial Scholarship
Mr. Hodgman loved Monson Academy and strove to build bonds between alumni from Monson Academy and Wilbraham Academy. Recipients embody the spirit of Parker Hodgman: strong character, a love for the Academy, seeing themselves as a global citizen and the helping to make our world a better place for all people.
Carl O. Lindberg Scholarship
The Carl O. Lindberg Scholarship was established in 1978 through a bequest from the estate of his wife, Mrs. Dorothea Lindberg. Mr. Lindberg was aided in his education by the generosity of others, and wished to make similar opportunities available. His son, Carl M. Lindberg '57, attended Wilbraham Academy. The scholarship is to assist a talented student who deserves recognition.
Academic Funds
Faculty Funds
The Leverett Marsden Hubbard Sr. Family Teaching Faculty Sabbatical Travel Fund
This fund was established in 2001 and provides travel grants to faculty members (and their family) who have completed more than five years of classroom teaching in the Upper School to become more aware of the interdependent world in which we live and to develop an understanding of different countries, especially those of our international students