According to an article in the Peabody Times in
February 1967, the original deposit of $15,000 was placed in trust and
scholarship assistance comes from interest on the bequest.
In a Peabody Times article that appeared in 1947, Ed
Meaney reported, "The Brown School at the present time is one of the few schools
in the city with a female principal. She is Miss Annie McCarthy, a veteran,
experienced member of the local system whose service to the education of Peabody
children hits somewhere around the 40-year mark. That's 40 years of real,
honest, accomplishment….As far as this writer is able to determine, Miss
McCarthy is the first and only principal at the 10-room schoolhouse."
McCarthy made quite an impression on the school department of
the City of Peabody. When she retired in 1952, the Samuel Brown School P.T.A.
paid tribute to McCarthy and an article appeared in the Peabody Times
about a surprise reception held in her honor.
In 1963, after McCarthy died, the Peabody School Committee
issued the following resolution in her honor.
Whereas: The generous gift of a Scholarship Fund
established by Miss Annie I. McCarthy, former principal of the Samuel Brown
School, has made a profound impression upon the School Department of the City of
Peabody, and
Whereas: Through the benefaction of Miss McCarthy,
many graduates of the Samuel Brown School will be assisted in receiving their
higher education, and
Whereas: Miss McCarthy made this unselfish scholarship
fund known after her demise, and in the City of Peabody no such gift to
education has been recorded since the time of our eminent philanthropist George
Peabody,
Be It Therefore Resolved: That the School Committee of
the City of Peabody hereby expresses its deep gratification and its
acknowledgement of the generous scholarship fund founded by the late principal
of the Samuel Brown School.
Be It Further Resolved: That these resolutions be
spread upon the official records of the School Department and a copy be
forwarded to her brother and to the Samuel Brown School as a sincere tribute of
appreciation of a public servant who always cherished the ideals of excellence
in education. So voted by the School Committee of the City of Peabody this day
of April, nineteen hundred and sixty three.
Annie McCarthy Scholarship Fund Recipients
- Priscilla Boyle, Janet VanBoba
- Janet McCarter
- James Hinchion
- Denise Hosker, Paul Dunleavy, Speros Lakos
- Barbara McKay, Susan Smith, Karen Miller
- Janice Doyle
- Karen Heil, Judith Egan, Charles Egan
- Phil Marchetti, Edwin Spoffard, Donna Brown
- Joseph Doyle
- Domenic Mogavero, Robert Rougier, David Ruddock, Robert
Carpenter
- Robert Rougier, Paul Dudzisz, Joanne Halleron, Linda
Craig, Charlene Churchill
- Debra Hughes, Linda Broply, John Carpenter, Linda Halleron
- Maryellen Wilson, Peggy Smith
- Thomas Kuklinski, Richard Heil
- James Holleran
- John Cahill, Cynthia Thompson, Cindy Scribnet, Thomas
Holleran
- N/A
- Peter Thompson, Stephen Barrett, Randall Drobezwk
- Cheryl Zipper
- Stephen Doyle, William Studzinski, Meredith Ruddock
- Edward Maitland
- Beverly Zipper
- Brian Barrett, Jack Lomasney
- John Zipper
- Brenda Thompson
- Laura Savage, Kevin Lomsney
- Tim Rollins
- Chris Graczyk
- Mike Zipper
- Alison D'Ambrosio
- N/A
- N/A
- Christopher Pierce, Joseph Kelly
- Matthew Dowling
from the Peabody School History Project
