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Town and school leaders in Brookline are preparing to head to court to deal with an unusual problem: too much money on their hands.
A scholarship fund for female Brookline High School students, created by a resident’s 1920s will, was so limited in its use that it has grown faster than it can be dispersed, ballooning to more than $3 million. The town is planning to file a petition with the state to let it expand the scholarship’s eligibility and start awarding money to more students.
The Abbie Deane Fund, named after an early 19th century BHS teacher, was established in 1923 upon the death of longtime Brookline resident Charlotte Hedge. Any BHS graduate attending Simmons or Radcliffe colleges — both women’s colleges — was eligible to receive scholarship. The first award from the fund was made in 1941.
Radcliffe College became part of Harvard in 1999, and because Harvard meets the demonstrated financial need of all of its students, the Abbie Deane Fund is only applied to female students from Brookline attending Simmons.
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Because of its narrow eligibility, the fund has gone largely unused since its establishment more than a century ago, growing from $3,000 to $3.2 million through reinvestment of its funds. In the past six years, 15 students have used a total of $113,000 in scholarship money from the fund.
The town wants to put it to better use. At a School Committee meeting last week, Susan Harris, Brookline’s associate Town Counsel, said female students have far more options to attend colleges now than when the Abbie Deane Fund was established, and the scholarship should reflect that shift.
“At the time the will was written in 1914, Simmons and Radcliffe were female-only colleges, but women could really only go to female-only colleges at that point,” Harris said.
So Brookline’s Town Counsel and the Brookline Community Foundation Scholarship Committee have begun a push to expand the scholarship’s eligibility.
After receiving a recommendation from the School Committee, the Select Board voted on Nov. 21 to authorize the Town Counsel to submit a cy pres petition to the state attorney general’s office. Cy pres is a legal doctrine that allows changes to be made to charitable bequest terms to avoid waste, as long as the donor’s original intention is honored.
The petition will aim to expand eligible scholarship recipients to all female graduates of BHS attending college. If the attorney general’s office accepts the petition, it will then go to the state Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in Massachusetts.
Harris said the town will likely ask to leave in place a preference for female students attending Harvard and Simmons, to respect the wishes of the original will, even if the overall eligibility is expanded.
John Hodgman, who chairs the Scholarship Committee for the Brookline BCF Scholarship Fund, said BCF and Town Counsel began pursuing this expansion now because a federal ARPA grant that provides Brookline with $90,000 annually in scholarships will run out in 2026.
“We’re confident that if the court allows broader eligibility there will be more than $100,000 of income from the Abbie Deane Fund to fill that gap,” Hodgman said.
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