Martin McLaughlin, President and Trustee of the John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation, standing with Novelette Peterkin, Carver’s CEO
For the fifth year in a row, the John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation is supporting our work at the Classical Studies Magnet Academy in Bridgeport. This year, the foundation awarded Carver a tremendous grant of $25,000!
The mission of the John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation is to improve people’s lives through the funding of programs whose mission and projects align with its three unified goals of enhancing Educational, Children’s and Cultural opportunities.
Ethel Orco Kashulon was a lifelong Bridgeport resident until her passing in 2017. She graduated from Saints Cyril and Methodius Commercial High School and immediately began working at the Bridgeport Housing Authority, where she was recognized as being their longest serving employee, retiring at age seventy after fifty-three years of employment.
For many years, Mrs. Kashulon also worked at the family business, Kashulon’s Market, on Sheridan Street in Bridgeport. Devout Catholics, she and her husband, John Kashulon, had been active members of Saint Cyril and Methodius Parish, Bridgeport for over fifty years. John Kashulon and Ethel were married on Halloween, October 31, 1960, and enjoyed 36 years of marriage until the passing of Mr. Kashulon.
The foundation was created in their memory and the Carver community is deeply grateful for being one of the earliest recipients of the foundation's thoughtful giving.
Carver is very enthusiastic about and proud of our partnership with the Classical Studies Magnet Academy in Bridgeport.
This is a "themed" Pre-K to 8th-grade public school in Bridgeport’s West Side neighborhood for more than 400 students. Its curriculum of classical literature, art, and music utilizes the Paideia instructional methodology (traditional lecturing, coaching, and the Socratic method of extended discussion). Instruction is project-based, involving frequent assemblies, presentations, and field trips.
CSMA occupies a 123-year-old structure, the oldest school still in use by the district.