Students at the College of New Caledonia are in for a treat thanks to some new tools provided for them by the Adey Memorial Fund.
This year, the college received a donation of almost $12,000 dollars worth of equipment from the Adeys.
The donations include three camcorders, a natural bone demonstration skull, two maxima curing lights, a female reproduction model, four magnetic osteological teaching skulls, two brain anatomy models, a bottle top dispenser, a planetary mixer and thermoalloy frying pans to the library, dental, biology, and professional cooking programs.
“We put a call out to the different classes, for anyone needing equipment and they gave us a wishlist. Four classrooms got ahold of us and gave us one.” says Perry Adey, Dillion’s father
The trust was created in 2009, after the death of its namesake Dillon Adey, as a way to honor his legacy.
The Adey family says it’s annual year-end donation to the college has become a tradition they look forward to. The family says it is a meaningful way to celebrate his birthday and help out students in the process.
The idea started with a golf trophy, presented to Dillon’s family by his friends at his celebration of life.
“His friends came up with the total idea. For the last ten years, I’ve been running a golf tournament to help raise money for kids to go to school. It originally started out to have one business student a year, but the golf tournament has done so well we have raised $214,000” Adey explains.
The Adey family offers a total of seven scholarships and bursaries annually to CNC, in addition to two nursing student awards.
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