On the 12th of November the Grove Avenue Elementary School hosted the Grove Tournament. There were 119 registered players who competed and along with their families helped the chess program raise $375 for charity through food sales. We are grateful for this opportunity as it advances the mission of the program in many ways. We are able to teach our students the value of service, to raise funds for humanitarian causes, advance knowledge of chess and introduce volunteerism to students as young as six. Our students continue to win awards and scholarships for their work with Chess Without Borders. Sujit Johnston has recently won a Kohl’s scholarship honoring his work with Chess Without Borders.
A special salute goes out to 10-year-old Toby and his family who represented the many children born with cleft lip, our volunteer from India Ms Sudha Dang and our volunteer leaders Isabella Anzulde and Jane Bradley. Many adult volunteers who help serve food are shinning examples of service for our students. They bring dedication, enthusiasm, diversity and spirit to the tournament. We are specially honored to welcome our volunteer assistant tournament directors, Madison Rossi and Scott Mc Millen who did a great job learning with Shulman. Another thank you goes out to Nature’s Farm for their donation of milk to this and every tournament. Ron Swanson our musician turned chess volunteer donated coffee and his time along with Ms Dang who donated cookiesfor the tournament. Lastly, we want to thank Juan Garcia, the Janitor from Grove who was outstanding in his service at the tournament and provided for all our needs.
A $25 donation was made to Chess Without Borders by Serge Minin to be used towards an entry fee for a needy student. Matthew Friedman, a 3rd grade Elementary School teacher in the Bronx NY donated $10 for Project Meher. We are grateful for their generosity and interest in helping our program.
Deep gratitude to our professional photographer Joseph Ridgway generously spent his time and talent to photograph all our students in action.
We are donating $275 to Smile Train and $100 to Dub Studios as this studio had produced the documentary for our program. This brings the total donations made by the chess program to $67,413 +$375=$67,788
Including $25,961 for Meher.
The program started by Dr Kalogeropoulos and her student Rishi Sethi has prospered as a creative, educational and humanitarian award-winning program thanks to all of you.
Please join us at our next tournament at Barbara Rose Elementary School on Dec 10th 2011 and continue to sharpen your skills by doing our chess puzzles available at the web site www.shulmanchess.com
Rich Ni and Dr Kiran Frey
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