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Read the Program Guide for Hopkinton's Tercentennial Celebration.

 

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On Friday, December 11, 2015, we will present our Closing Ceremony, the grand finale to a tremendous celebratory year at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.

 

On the agenda for the evening are:

  • Closing remarks/highlights from the year

  • Letters for time capsule

  • Sealing time capsule

  • Dear Hopkinton photo project last session

  • Aerial photos of the fireworks by photographer Craig Capello

  • Presentation of gifts including the Commemorative quilt and the the Handcrafted bench for time capsule.

 

Refreshments, including an java bar, decorate your own cookies and desserts will be served and 300th merchandise and limited edition marathon prints will be available for sale.

 

The 300th Anniversary Celebration Committee would be honored if you would join us for our final event!

 

Please RSVP here.

 

 

The Hopkinton High School Top of the Hill Program honors alumni for their exceptional achievements and contributions to society. This program is brought to you by The Hopkinton Parent Teacher Association, The Hopkinton Education Foundation, and the Hopkinton High School.

 

Class of 2015 Inductees:

Paul Phipps - 1939 

Paul was a three-sport athlete at Hopkinton High School and was inducted into the Hopkinton High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996 after earning 15 varsity letters. Paul went to Holy Cross on a football scholarship. But due to a knee injury, he could not play football in college. He kept his grades up and was given a merit scholarship. To show his appreciation for that, he donated time and money to Holy Cross. He fought at Iwo Jima. Paul was a Marine Special Service officer at Montford Point camp in NC, a segregated camp. He served as coach and caught for the base's all-black baseball team. Paul insisted on eating and sleeping with his teammates when they were denied equal accommodations on road trips. Paul gave generously of his time and expertise, particularly in Hopkinton. In 1954 he was an original organizer of Hopkinton Little League and coached the Tigers in that league for 14 years. In 1975 he served as the president of the Independent Insurance Agents of NE and was President of South Middlesex Agents Association for several years. He also served as corporate trustee of the the Holliston/Hopkinton Saving Bank for 32 years and founded the Hopkinton Chamber of Commerce. Paul was also a member and founder of multiple clubs and organizations including: The Hopkinton Boosters club, The Hopkinton Scholarship committee, The Hopkinton Education Foundation, and The Hopkinton Kiwanis Club.

 

Mary Harrington - 1954 

Mary is a 5th generation Hopkintonian. She graduated from Hopkinton High School in 1954. She has raised four children, is a grandmother to eight, and great grandmother to two. She was one of the founders of the Hopkinton Youth Commission and served as a local Girl Scout leader and ran the Hopkinton chapter for several years. She faithfully served over 35 years in Hopkinton Town Government as a volunteer on the Planning Board, Zoning Board, Board of Selectman and Affordable Housing Committee. She worked with local agencies to offer rides and meals to assist neighbors in need. She loved the friends of her children and was a great role model for them. If kids were experiencing problems at home, she would open up her house for them to come and stay. She worked full time throughout her life and yet still found time to volunteer for several groups in town. As a great-grandmother now, she is readily available to help and assist anyone. She is still involved in many aspects of volunteer and mentoring.

 

Thomas McIntyre - 1972

Hopkinton has always been an important part of Tom’s life, and he has dedicated much of his time to giving back to the town that gives so much to him. Tom graduated from Hopkinton High School in 1972, and quickly began his journey as an entrepreneur. After graduation, he bought a truck and a piece of land on Wood Street—land that used to be the town dump—and started what is today known as McIntyre Loam. This business has been successful for over 40 years. This may not have been the typical route for Hopkinton High School graduates, but he has shown that you are most successful when you follow your dream.

Through his business, Tom has had the opportunity to give back to the town he loves, donating material to the Hopkinton Public Schools, the Little League, the Senior Center, and various Eagle Scout projects. The only way he feels that he can truly thank the town for all it has given to him is by volunteering his time and efforts. Tom has served as a volunteer firefighter on the Hopkinton Fire Department since 1974. He currently serves on the Hopkinton Chamber of Commerce and The Hopkinton Community Endowment. Tom has taken on multiple projects around town over the years. These projects include restoring the planter in front of Colella’s and two former fire department bells—one anchors the Fireman Memorial on Mt. Auburn Street; the other sits at the Woodville Fire Station. He also created and placed the granite street marker at the Pond and Winter Street intersection. The sign in front of the fire station, created from the foundation of the original gazebo, is also one of his projects, as is the “Hopkinton Stonehenge” in front of the high school. Hopkinton, his home, is the place where his story began, the place where his story unfolded, and the place where his story will continue.

 

Denise Millard - 1992 

Denise graduated from Hopkinton High School in 1992. She holds a B.S. in business from Bryant University and an M.B.A. in information technology from Clark University. Denise is chief of staff, global sales and customer operations at EMC. With revenues of $23.2 billion in 2013 and 62,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Denise has been with EMC for 16 years, holding roles in sales operations, professional services, channel sales and sales strategy, as well as go to market. In her most recent role, Denise has responsibility for strategic go to market initiatives, sales programs, sales enablement activities and owns establishing and communicating business objectives, strategy and priorities to EMC sales to support EMC’s revenue growth. She is also responsible for rapid growth market board where she oversees the board activities and strategic initiatives aimed at rapid growth markets. Denise is actively involved in EMC’s Women’s Leadership field activities, and actively mentors emerging talent within EMC.

 

Meghan Fennelly Altidor - 1995 

Meghan graduated from Hopkinton High School in 1995. Meghan continued her education at Georgetown University earning both her undergraduate degree and a Law Degree. Today Meghan is an affordable housing attorney in Washington, DC. She represents non-profit and for-profit developers in acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, and operating affordable housing developments around the country. She deals will complex financings of these developments including tax-exempt bonds, low-income housing credits and other federal, state, and local government subsidies. She works extensively with the FHA multifamily mortgage insurance programs which are used to purchase, refi, or construct new affordable multifamily rental housing, i.e.. a large co-op with more than 57,000 residents in the Bronx, one of the largest FHA loans ever made. She is interested in how the NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio's housing plan will create new opportunities for developers, with mixed income housing developments. She will be following how the city intends to expand Mitchell-Lama preservation strategies, increase homeless and veteran housing ops, and revamp various tax incentive programs that affect NYC new construction and rehab deals.

 

Sean Terry - 2005 

Sean graduated from Hopkinton High School in 2005 and went on to study at Fordham University. While at Fordham, during his spring breaks his junior and senior year he went with Global Outreach (GO program) to Ecuador and worked in a village with the youth community. After graduation, he did two years of volunteer service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corp (JVC). His first year was in Spokane Washington, where he worked at a men’s homeless shelter. His second year he worked in Portland Oregon When he returned to Massachusetts, Sean went to the New England Center for Homeless Veterans (NECHV). He started out as a housing advocate, was promoted to an Outreach Specialist with Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF), and was recently promoted to Operations Manager for Supportive Services for Veteran Families. He has also run the Boston Marathon in 2013 and 2014, raising $5000 for the Pine St. Inn and $3000 for the 26.2 Foundation.

Hopkinton is celebrating its 300th Birthday this year!  As part of the celebration, we would like to create a Time Capsule which will be opened in 50 years.  We hope you will participate in this exciting project by writing a letter to your future self.  You can bring your letter to the 300th Anniversary Closing Ceremony on December 11 at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.

 

You may write anything you wish to your future self.  Please remember to sign and date your letter!  You may include a photo if you wish.

 

If you need ideas, please use our Anniversary theme, “Celebrating our Past, Embracing our Present, and Inspiring our Future” as inspiration.  

 

For detailed instructions about how to write your letter for the time capsule, see below:

 

Click Here for instructions for students in Grades K-1

 

Click Here for instructions for students in Grades 2-5

 

Click Here for students in grades 6-12.

 

Good luck!  We hope to hear from you!

 

Any questions about the project should be emailed to 300@hopkintonma.gov.

The 26.2 Foundation in conjunction with the Hopkinton 300th Anniversary Celebration Committee announces the sale of 300 signed, 12"x 12" limited edition prints featuring iconic symbols of Hopkinton’s “Marathon Footprint” including the Team Hoyt sculpture, the “Spirit of the Marathon” sculpture, the “Starter” sculpture and the gazebo on the Town Common.

 

“These prints capture and express the respect, love and admiration the town of Hopkinton has for the Boston Marathon,” said 26.2 Foundation president Michael Neece.

 

The prints are being produced to benefit the Hopkinton 300th Anniversary Celebration Committee and all proceeds will go to fund anniversary events. The prints will be sold in sets of four for a total price of $50.00 and all donations via the 26.2 Foundation are tax deductible.

 

“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase these prints,” said 300th Anniversary Committee Chair Jean Bertschmann. “Three hundred years in Hopkinton’s history only comes around once.  We haven’t had fireworks in Hopkinton in over 30 years and we are very appreciative of the 26.2 Foundation’s support to help make this special event a reality.”

 

The prints were designed and created by Hopkinton resident Maddie Bertschmann, a Markets, Innovation & Design major in the School of Management at Bucknell University.  Learning that some of the funding for the 300th celebration had been eliminated due to state budget cuts, Bertschmann donated her time to create the prints in an effort to boost fundraising efforts.

 

“I'm so excited to be able to contribute to the 300th anniversary celebration,” said Maddie Bertschmann. “It's really a professional and personal honor for me to design these prints, especially considering I've been afforded this opportunity without even having graduated college yet. Aside from my time at Bucknell, I have lived in Hopkinton my entire life, so the town is very much integral to who I am. Having the opportunity to pay homage to the town in my own way is really incredible. Ultimately, I just hope that the prints provide a little reminder to the families whose homes they hang in of the beauty of Hopkinton's history and community, which is what really makes this town so special.”

 

The prints will be available for purhcase at the 300th Annivesary Closing Ceremony on Friday, December 11 at 7PM at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.   

 

For questions, please email 300@hopkintonma.gov.
 

 

 

 

Due to the overwhelming response and participation of the community in the "Dear Hopkinton" project, we will be offering one final photo session at the 300th Anniversary Closing Ceremony.  additional opportunities for residents to 

 

Friday, Decenber 11 from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.

 

Please stop by!   Photos will be made available free of charge once processed.

 

 

 

During the Hopkinton 300th Anniversary “Light up the Night” Community Celebration on Saturday, September 12th, we will be offering an interactive photo project called “Dear Hopkinton” for open participation by all members of our community. This project concept was “loaned” to us by Robert Fogarty, the creator of the original project, “Dear World” dearworld.me.  Fogarty developed “Dear World” in 2009 following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. He hoped to create an opportunity for the citizens of New Orleans to become a visual and active part of their city’s recovery through “personal love notes” to their city. He asked the people of New Orleans to share stories of strength, their struggle and hopes for a brighter day through personal messages written on their body in the photographs.

 

Dear World-New Orleans was an incredible success which prompted to Fogarty to take his unique project all over the world in the past six years to give a special voice to survivors of other disasters and personal conflicts.  Dear World has photographed the personal messages from New York after Hurricane Sandy, and Joplin, MO after the tornado.  One year after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Dear World: Boston Marathon project asked survivors and responders to return to the finish line to share their thoughts.  To see photos from Dear World: Boston Marathon, click here.

 

Fogarty has now shared Dear World with corporate America in many of their employee events, local communities and social causes throughout the world. Dear World is part business/art project/social experiment. Everyone has a special meaningful message to share with family, friends and even strangers.

 

Fogarty kindly loaned us his concept which we have entitled “Dear Hopkinton” as a salute from our citizens in Hopkinton in honor of our 300th Anniversary year. We will have volunteer photographers at our “Light up the Night” Event from 4-8pm on Sept. 12th. There will be 4 photo stations set up at the Doyle gym.  Residents will be asked to participate in the photos individually or as a group and write short, personal “love notes” to Hopkinton. These messages can be a personal statement, messages for our future generations, or something you love about our great town.

 

All the photos will then be compiled into a large mosaic mural with a 300 image and be donated to the town for display at a designated location for all community members to enjoy.

 

 

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For Hopkinton resident Brenna Creswell, the opportunity to become involved in Hopkinton’s Tercentennial Commemorative Quilt project began during her junior year at the Joseph P. Keefe Regional Technical School.  In an advisory board meeting attended by her parents, Bruce (Chip) Creswell Jr. and Kerry Creswell, Brenna was considering ideas for her senior project when her mother suggested she build the box that would house Hopkinton’s 300th anniversary quilt.  Her carpentry teachers, Mr. Newell and Mr. Fairfield, thought it was a great idea and Brenna’s senior project was decided.

 

The Tercentennial Commemorative Quilt is being created by Colleen Barnes, Jean Bertschmann, Russ Greve, Yvonne Powell, Kris Waldman, Laure Warren, Laima Whitty, Merylyn Mezitt, Kate Gasser, Maddy Boyce, Tina Berlad, Christine Meyers, Kelsey Ullman and Kerry Creswell with the support of many other quilters in Hopkinton. Featuring a map of the town and history of the town’s growth, the quilt, when finished, will be permanently installed in the Hopkinton Historical Society.  And making the hanging of the quilt possible will be the frame built by Brenna.

 

“Brenna has always loved working with wood since she was very little,” said her mother Kerry Creswell. “As a child, she attended every Saturday workshop at Home Depot, helping all the other kids with their projects.”

 

In choosing to attend Keefe Tech, Brenna followed in the footsteps of her father, Chip Creswell, and many other family members who attended Keefe Tech.

 

“It was the best choice for her,” said Creswell. “The hands-on learning and the teachers were great.  We saw a very positive growth in her learning and wanting to learn.”

 

For Brenna, making the quilt box was an opportunity to build something special; something with meaning for her and her mom.

 

“I think it is cool that I was able to make the quilt box and that it will hang in the Historical Society building for all to see,” said Brenna. “It is special that I could build something that will hold a very special quilt that my mom had a part in making; something that we can pass on to the town that we both made together.  I have now made the next generation of our family continue on in Hopkinton and maybe one day another family member of ours can add to our family and town history.”

 

Her family’s history includes her grandparents, Mark Lumbra, Master Electrician, and Barbara Rossi, retired, and the late Bruce Creswell Sr., Shop Supervisor at Liberty Mutual Research Center in Hopkinton for more than 40 years and the late Shirley Creswell who was an avid seamstress, artist and knitter/crocheter.  She is also the great-granddaughter of the late Joseph and Doris Irvine, owners of J.C. Parmenter, Inc.

 

The quilt frame built by Brenna was installed in the Historical Society in June of this year, the same month that she graduated from Keefe Tech where she was a Carpentry and Honor student and was awarded an Outstanding Performance Award for Carpentry on June 3, 2015. Brenna also excelled in many sports, playing varsity Volleyball, and serving as team captain in her senior year and was awarded the MVP. In both her junior and senior year she was chosen to play at the CAL Volleyball All Star Games. She was a varsity Softball player freshman and sophomore year, as well as a JV Basketball player. She was also a member of the track team and threw discus, shot put and javelin, medal placing in both her junior and senior years at the MVADA meet.

 

“I am proud that I chose to attend Keefe Tech,” said Brenna. “I applied all my learning from Keefe to make many things throughout my hoe and now to have made a historical piece of woodworking art to hang forever in Hopkinton.”

 

Brenna is currently attending Wentworth Institute of Technology, majoring in Construction Management.   The Tercentennial Commemorative Quilt will be hung on the frame built by Brenna in December.

To celebrate Hopkinton’s 300th Anniversary, the Association of the United States Army together with the Friends of Hopkinton Veterans is presenting an essay contest for middle and high school students residing in Hopkinton. Students will have the opportunity to win a scholarship by demonstrating their writing and research skills, while also learning about Hopkinton’s rich military history. Interviewing veterans or their immediate family is expected to be part of the project. Actual amount and number of prizes are subject to change based on sponsorships, but are anticipated to be as follows:

FIRST PLACE: up to $2,500 Scholarship

SECOND PLACE:  up to $1,000 Scholarship

THIRD PLACE: $500 Scholarship

 

Topics currently under consideration by our panel of judges include:

1.       The Battle of Okinawa (2 dozen Hopkinton veterans involved)

2.       Women in the Military

3.       Merrill’s Marauders (Merrill’s former house is on Wood Street)

4.       Rescue Helicopters (4 Hopkinton veterans)

5.       Tank Crews (3 Hopkinton veterans)

 

Submission date is expected to be September 30, 2015, and results are expected to be announced by October 30, 2015.   For more information, please contact Henry Allessio at henry.allessio@gmail.com or James Hoyt at jhoyt@hoytlegalllc.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fireworks!  A parade!  Entertainment and fun for residents of all ages!   It's almost here! The big community celebration weekend  - September 11 through September 13.   Please come out and join us as we celebrate Hopkinton's 300th anniversary.

 

Friday, September 11, 2015

The 300th Anniversary celebration weekend kicks off on Friday, September 11 with the restoration of the Claflin Fountain and a ribbon cutting and presentation of the town seal on the Town Common at 6pm.  Birthday cake and music by Barbara Kessler.

 

For more details and to RSVP check out our Facebook Event - Claflin Fountain Restoration.

 

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Light up the Night event - September 12 from 4pm to 8:30pm at the fields behind the High School and Middle School which will feature music, entertainment and FIREWORKS! 

 

For more details and to RSVP, check out the Facebook Event - "Light up the Night"

 

For details on parking for Light up the Night, click here.

 

Sunday, September 13, 2015

It's time for the 300th Anniversary parade on Sunday, September 13, starting at 1pm at Hopkinton High School.   Just prior to the parade, a fire truck procession will start at 12:15pm.

 

Road Closings from 12 to 4:30pm
1.  Main st. (from pleasant st. to Hayden Rowe Street)
2   Hayden Rowe Street (from Main to Grove)
3.  pleasant st. ( from Hayden Rowe to Main Street)
4.  Grove Street (from Main to Hayden Rowe Street)
5.  Any roads inside above boundaries.

 

For more details and to RSVP, please check out the Facebook Event -- 300th Anniversary Parade. 

 

THe 300th birthday weekend is an event packed extravaganza for all!   We can't wait to see you all there!

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