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Potsdam High School Artistic Congress raises $2,000 for Greer scholarship

Posted 7/1/11

POTSDAM -- The Potsdam High School Artistic Congress recently presented a check for $2,000 to SUNY Potsdam Distinguished Teaching Professor of Art Caroline Downing to benefit the Katya Czerepak Greer …

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Potsdam High School Artistic Congress raises $2,000 for Greer scholarship

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POTSDAM -- The Potsdam High School Artistic Congress recently presented a check for $2,000 to SUNY Potsdam Distinguished Teaching Professor of Art Caroline Downing to benefit the Katya Czerepak Greer Memorial Scholarship.

The scholarship fund will assist art education students at SUNY Potsdam.

The group raised the funds from a number of activities, including an art auction held at the Creative Spirit Art Gallery in Potsdam in May.

The check was presented at the dedication of a mural at the high school created by art students in memory of their teacher, Mrs. Greer.

In attendance to view the mural and receive the check were Katya's husband, Chad Greer; Caroline Downing; Leslie Sutter, Potsdam High School art teacher and adviser to the Artistic Congress; PHS senior Ellie Hawley, president of the student group; Katya's father, Otto Czerepak, and Superintendent Patrick Brady.

Katya Czerepak Greer was a 2002 graduate of the SUNY Potsdam art history program and an art teacher at Potsdam High School. She passed away in 2009.

Mark Huff, chair of SUNY Potsdam's art department, along with Downing, are spearheading the effort to endow the fund in her honor to provide an annual scholarship to a SUNY Potsdam student pursuing a degree in art education.

For information about the scholarship fund, contact Nancy Griffin at 267-2112 or griffine@potsdam.edu.