The Elizabeth Crawford Connelly Scholarship

The Caedmon School is very pleased to announce a new Caedmon scholarship in memory of Elizabeth Crawford Connelly, founding parent of Caedmon and member of the Board of Trustees for nearly three decades. The scholarship is to be offered each year to one or more Caedmon families who otherwise would not be able to enroll or remain at Caedmon.

Resources donated to this scholarship will not accumulate, but will be spent in their entirety each year, in keeping with the spirit of Mrs. Connelly herself, who throughout her life was an advocate for those in immediate need.

Elizabeth Connelly’s work at Caedmon reflected a lifetime of social concern and public activism. She spent more than a decade as an attorney at Manhattan Legal Services where she tended to the needs of her indigent clients with creative, lawyerly skill and a witty disrespect for the wishes of the powerful.

With a mind toward continuing Elizabeth Connelly’s revolutionary idealism at The Caedmon School, we dedicate this scholarship to her memory and invite you to contribute.