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Honoring the end of slavery programs commemorating the nation’s semiquincentennial. Clark said that the museum Raynham Hall Museum has plans to use the new funding for received $30,000 in state funding to programming focused on the hissupport educational programming tory of slavery and abolition in New York, including lectures, ahead of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in New exhibits and the museum’s annual art show. “We’re working with the York state in 2027. The grant was presented to Oyster Bay Historical Society,” Friends of Raynham Hall Muse- Clark added. “We’re working with um trustees on Monday by Assem- the Huntington African American blyman Charles Lavine, and will Museum. We’re reaching out to all kinds of people who be administered by know things.” the nonprofit organiThe anniversary zation, which operis particularly signifates the facility. icant to Raynham “These are feaHall because of its tures that are right connections to both in our community slavery and the abolithat we need to protion movement. Samtect,” Lavine said, uel Townsend, of the “and I’m happy to try prominent Oyster to do that.” Bay family, who purThe funding is chased the property intended specifically in 1738, also owned for educational pro- HarrIEt CLark more than 20 grams, including lec- Executive director, e n s l av e d p e o p l e tures, exhibits and Raynham Hall Museum throughout his life. other events that will But his son Robert, a delve into the history of slavery and emancipation in spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War, was a New York and the nation. The museum’s director, Harriet founding member of the New York Clark, said it had sought support Manumission Society, according to from elected officials earlier this Clark. The organization was creatyear, sending them information ed by John Jay and Alexander about its mission and programs. Hamilton, and its original memLavine was the first to offer finan- bers included other prominent figures of the era. cial assistance, she said. The abolition of slavery in New The grant follows a separate $30,000 grant secured through York was a long-term process. The Lavine’s office for Raynham Hall COntinued On pAGe 7
By WILL SHEELINE
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Friends Academy student Olivia Lichota, right, raised $20,000 for a nonprofit clinic at the Boys & Girls Club of Glen Cove.
Friends student raises $20,000 By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
At age 16, Friends Academy student Olivia Lichota has already discovered how a passion for tennis can become a way to give back to her community. Lichota, an Old Brookville resident, an incoming junior at Friends Academy, in Locust Valley, and a member of the school’s tennis team, founded a nonprofit tennis clinic this summer for children involved with the Boys & Girls Club in Glen Cove. The program brings about a dozen children, mostly ages 10 to 12, to the Robbie Wagner Tournament Training Center, in Glen Cove, for weekly sessions that introduce them to the sport. The clinic grew out of Lichota’s participation in Friends’ Entrepreneurship and Social Innovators programs, in which students are
encouraged to work with entrepreneurial businesses and identify problems in their communities and develop solutions. “I think about how Quakerism plays a role with integrity and simplicity, which are some of the Quakers’ SPICES,” she said, referring to the anagram for simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship (or sustainability), the core values of the denomination, “and it kind of helps just to know that that’s always there and to think about that in the back of my mind.” Lichota began developing the idea this winter, after taking part in the school’s innovators program. What initially seemed like a small project eventually became a larger effort, including a fundraising campaign that brought in $15,000 in three weeks. Donations have since increased the total to nearly $20,000, COntinued On pAGe 6
think [emancipation is] part of our history, and it’s a good part of our history.