The NFA Foundation advances opportunities at Norwich Free Academy by soliciting, accepting, and prudently managing donated and endowed funds. The Foundation actively builds awareness, engages alumni, nurtures relationships, and develops partnerships to benefit the Academy’s students, faculty, and staff.
NEWS & STORIES
The Cadden-Williams Prize Reading Competition is a tradition that is almost as old as Norwich Free Academy. It is a combination of several awards: Newton Perkins Speaking Prize, Williams Prize for Reading, and Cadden Reading Prize.
At some point, every student is asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" It’s a challenging question—whether you're 14 or 44. At NFA, we take a different approach. Instead of asking students to define their entire future in one answer, we ask: "What's Next For Me?"
There are some Norwich Free Academy alumni who went on to achieve greater fame and fortune after graduation than Raymond V. "Pop" Congdon, Jr., Class of 1937, but it would be hard to find any one of them who had a closer bond with NFA and loved it more ... except maybe his father, "Pop, Sr.," Class of 1904.
What is NFA? Ask some random person at your local grocery store and you’ll probably hear something like, “Great high school. My kids go there.” Which is all most people may need to know. But what makes NFA different ― and what if you want to know more?
It all began in 1984. Norwich Free Academy’s Slater Memorial Museum received what would be the first major acquisition of a work of art by Norwich artist Ellis Ruley. The tranquil scene, bequeathed from a private collection was referred to as Lions, but also took on a new title, Daydreaming.
The NFA Foundation is excited to announce the establishment of a new scholarship fund made possible by a gift of $100,000 from NFA alumnus Jared Dillian ‘92.