I was delighted and deeply honored to present Brendan Krueger our very first Richard J. Hammond Principal of the Year award on Sunday, June 9, at the school’s graduation ceremony. Brendan is the principal at Pine Tree Academy in Freeport, Maine and has continued in that specific ministry now for twenty-two years!

In recent years it has been the desire of leadership to begin a teacher and principal of the year awards. Finally, such was made possible just a few months ago when a financial gift was set aside to honor a teacher for outstanding contributions to Christian education. (The Principal award is slated to begin at the conclusion of this academic year.)

Throughout the Ken and Mabel Brace Foundation’s few years of existence the executive committee has had a deep interest in the promotion of agriculture in the Seventh-Day Adventist school system.

The students at North Star Christian School in Hermon, Maine are proudly displaying their ukuleles which the Foundation donated three years ago.

Bayberry Christian School on Cape Cod, Massachusetts has been the most recent recipient of the Foundation’s donation in the field of classroom hydroponics.