Posted on August 11, 2012

Samuel G. and Margaret A. Gorn Foundation Awards $1 Million to Jemicy School

The Jemicy School in Owings Mills, Maryland, has announced a gift of $1 million from the Samuel G. and Margaret A. Gorn Foundation to fully endow a fund in support of teacher development and various student programs.

The Gorns were longtime supporters of Valley Academy and continued their commitment to Jemicy after the schools merged in 2003. The Samuel G. and Margaret A. Gorn Angel Fund, which Margaret Gorn established before her death in May, honors the commitment she and her husband, who died in 2007, had made to education in the Baltimore area. Established in 1973, the school enrolls three hundred elementary and secondary school students with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences. Jemicy's Professional Outreach Program provides training programs to public, independent, and parochial school teachers, as well as tutoring services to children and adults.

"The Angel Fund recognizes the commitment of Jemicy teachers and the difference they make in the lives of their students," said Susan Grant, a founding board member of Valley Academy and honorary trustee and member of Jemicy's advisory council. "This gift is to be used for lower, middle, and upper school divisions as well as the Jemicy Outreach program, for special projects, educational activities, continuing education, speakers, research, curriculum development, or other needs that are not funded by the operating budget and are designed to improve and enhance Jemicy's programs."