The Charles Evans Scholarship Fund

The Charles Evans Memorial Scholarship was established in honor of one of the founders of the Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund. Mr. Evans, a Carlisle resident, joined three Concord residents and school committee members who worked together to establish the the Regional School District and to oversee the construction of the Concord-Carlisle Regional High School that opened in September 1960. Aware of the escalating costs associated with post-secondary educational programs following high school graduation, they wanted to make it possible for all students to be able to pursue studies at a university, college, technical, or vocational school as appropriate to the individual. They decided to call together a group of fellow citizens whose wisdom and advice they valued in order to learn from them what they thought about the idea of creating a scholarship fund that would provide assistance based on financial need. Encouraged by the positive response they received, the four former School Committee members had drawn up a permanent charitable trust to be known as the Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund. On June 25, 1966, Charles Evans, Anna Manion, Bruce Old and Eleanor Spinney signed the trust document and became the Fund’s first trustees.