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Retired teacher helps students become future philanthropists
WWNY Retired teacher helps students become future philanthropists By Brendan Straub | December 16, 2020 at 4:54 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 10:07 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - We meet a retired Watertown teacher who is helping students become philanthropists of the future.
Emily Sprague spent 30 years teaching English at Watertown High School, but that isn’t where her teaching days stopped.
Sprague is an advisor of the Youth Philanthropy Council, a group of North Country high school students.
The program was created by the Northern New York Community Foundation.
“We are trying to teach them to become the not-for-profit board members of the future, community servants and philanthropists of the future,” said Sprague.
LEAD â Vivian Wittmayer and her family are battling childhood cancer.
The Lead-Deadwood School District is pitching in to help them fight their fight with a $10,000 fundraising goal as part of Clippers for a Cause.
Vivian, of Lead, is a 13-year-old Lead-Deadwood Middle School student was diagnosed with Ewingâs sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, after finding a lump in her foot.
Wednesday, her mother, Emily Sprague, said Vivian had just finished with round nine of 14 chemotherapy treatments and has four more radiation treatments to go.
âWeâve been in Sioux Falls for the last four weeks. After the radiation is done, we will be headed home and only have to come back to Sioux Falls about every two weeks for chemo until the middle of February,â Sprague said. âSome time after her chemo is all done we will have to travel to Mayo again for two more weeks of radiation on her lung.â