Beacon High School opened the fall 2006 semester in the beautifully renovated school building on the Walker Watertown Campus on Belmont Street, in a facility purchased in the spring of 2006. The new school building features large classrooms, state-of-the-art science labs, a photography lab, music rehearsal space, a library, a computer lab, and private offices for therapy sessions. Carefully designed with Beacon students in mind, the new school building retains many of the characteristics that made the former Green Street facility so successful. Along with hosting the Beacon alternative high school program, the new campus offers exciting potential for a range of new programs to serve troubled adolescents.
Walker has developed a two-phase campaign with two key objectives: Fulfilling the Promise of an excellent high school education to current Beacon High School students; and Building the Future of programs and services that will serve future Beacon High School students and their families.
While the Phase 1 campus enhancements have had a spectacularly positive impact on the Beacon High School, our work to improve the facilities at the new Walker Watertown Campus is not complete. Two program areas at Beacon are particularly underserved by the current physical space: arts education and physical education.
Phase 2 of the Campaign For Beacon High School and the Walker Watertown Campus will underwrite a new art studio that can accommodate the teaching, making and display of a range of visual arts, as well as pottery and sculpture. And a new, flexibly-designed multi-purpose center will dramatically improve Beacon’s capacity to offer a wide range of daily physical activity for all students.
The Campaign progress made to date has shown how philanthropic resources invested at Beacon High School are leveraged into serious academic and social rewards for adolescents. The completion of the Watertown Campus will not only help Beacon High School continue to make remarkable strides in terms of excellence and stature, but the new facilities will also create a future platform for Walker to expand its services to more adolescents struggling with emotional and learning difficulties.
For more information about the Campaign For Beacon High School and the Walker Watertown Campus, please contact Charlene Pontbriand, director of institutional advancement, by email or by telephone 781-292-2146.
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Beacon High School
Dinner and Auction
On October 18th, more than 200 guests gathered at Veronique in Brookline, Mass. for the Beacon High School dinner and auction. The event raised nearly $390,000 and marked the launch of the public phase of " Fulfilling the Promise, Building the Future: The Campaign For Beacon High School and the Walker Watertown Campus ", the $3 million capital campaign that will complete the construction and renovation of the new Beacon facility in Watertown.
Throughout the evening, many toasts were offered to Nancy Lincoln, director of Beacon High School since 1978 and a steadfast educational advocate for struggling adolescents and their families. She was presented with a beautiful stained glass panel, created by Beacon students, of a lighthouse representing the many "beacons of hope" she has shone into students' lives.