Oct. 29, 2024 9p; Updated 11-5 to reflect the establishing amount of the new fund
(WGTD)---The Kenosha Community Foundation’s newest family legacy giving fund is the “Marvin S. Martin Fund for the Dramatic and Forensic Arts at Bradford High School.”
Interest from the endowed fund will be used to finance an annual guest artist position at the school. The fund's establishing gift was over $200,000, resulting in an annual grant to the program of at least $10,000, according to Amy Greil, Executive Director of the Kenosha Community Foundation.
Bradford’s theater program, open to students from other high schools in Kenosha, has been recognized nationally.
The 87-year-old Martin died last year.
He was a graduate of the ‘old’ Bradford High School which is now Reuther. Martin went on to teach theater in Glencoe, Illinois for many years before returning to Kenosha.
Martin was so grateful for his experience at Bradford that he included the program in his will. "How amazing is it that the teachers he had and the program that he went through 60 years ago had such a profound impact that he wanted that to be a part of his legacy?" asked Bradford theater teacher Jody Williams on a recent edition of WGTD's Morning Show. "He wanted to ensure that other students he never met and would never meet would have the opportunities that he did," Williams said.
The Martin fund is the foundation’s 60th fund.
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