The Amherst Tigers Booster Club is pleased to recognize Bea Massman’s incredible accomplishments and dedication to the Central Amherst High School Tennis program.
IN MEMORY OF BEA MASSMAN 1912 – 1992
First Woman to Coach Boys High School Varsity Tennis Team
Coached Amherst High School to 16 Consecutive Undefeated ECIC Seasons
Named New York State High School Coach of the Year – 1973
Won 26 Buffalo City Open MUNY Tennis Titles
Buffalo Tennis Hall of Fame – 2008
Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame – 1991
Amherst High School Athletic Hall of Fame (inaugural class) – 1990
The Amherst Central Alumni Foundation, Inc. Grant Committee awarded $23,557 for requests submitted by faculty and staff for the 2023-24 school year. Grants were awarded in all four schools for academics, technology, sports, arts, and special education. Among the grants awarded were: Books for the Amherst Central School District Family Support Center; High School – Italian Exchange Program, Pit Orchestra Stand Lights, Student Council Leadership Conference, Black History Month Activities; Middle School – 8th grade field trips, Adult-Student Mentoring Program, Life Skills Supplies for Developmental Disability Class, Lumber for the Annual Musical, Woodwind Instrument Repairs; Windermere Elementary – Pickleball Equipment, Storyteller Speaker; Smallwood Elementary – Supplies for Kindergarten Integrated Classroom, 2nd Grade Field Trip.
Grants are fully funded by generous alumni donations and other fundraising activities. Grants are awarded for programs that are not funded by the school district budget and are selected based on the most students that will be positively affected.
The Amherst Central Alumni Foundation, Inc. has awarded over $189,000 in grants over the past 20+ years. For more information, please visit our website www.amherstalumni.org.
The Amherst Central Alumni Foundation, Inc. is looking to grow our alumni Board of Directors for the 2024-2025 school year. The Directors manage the Foundation and all of its activities and events. Our board committees help perform a variety of tasks and support functions for the Foundation and our Grant Program.
If you have a special talent you would like to share or would like to give back to the Amherst Central School District by volunteering for the Foundation, please fill out our brief questionnaire by clicking here.
Please respond by Friday, May 3, 2024.
The Foundation Board meets monthly throughout the school year, generally the third Thursday of every month.
One of the foundation’s spring grant requests was by Amherst Central School Distict’s Family Support Center.
Marlana Howard, LCSW, School Social Worker sent us a nice thank you note for helping fund the center’s lending library.
“Thank you again for choosing the Amherst CSD Family Support Center as a recipient of one of your generous Alumni grants. This grant helped get our SEL Lending Library off the ground. As a result of the Alumni Association grant we were able to purchase 204 books and have received several other donations from Amherst families.
As a grant recipient, we wanted to report back some of the measures taken towards the establishment of the SEL Lending Library, aside from the purchase of books. Those include:
Maintaining our Amazon Wish List for families to peruse and donate if they are interested in contributing.
Acquiring some new bookshelves to accommodate new books.
Purchasing a stamp to mark the cover of each book to identify it as property of Amherst FSC’s
Creating a comprehensive database that lists all of the books that we have and breaks it down so that we are more easily able to recommend and lend books to families based on specific issues they or their children may be struggling with and based on their age ranges.
Developing a lending library agreement that will be utilized for every family who wants to borrow a book.
Below we have included some photos and a screen shot of the database. Unfortunately, the photos are not with the new bookshelves yet.“
Grants like this are made possible because of the generosity of Amherst Alumni and their donations. If you are interested in donating to the Amherst Central Alumni Foundation to help fund grants like these, visit https://www.amherstalumni.org/Donate.htm.
(By Michael Chardack ’77) In early March of 2024 a group of ACHS Class of ’77 graduates assembled in Park City, Utah for the 3rd annual ski trip class reunion hosted by alumni Rick Porter. A good time was had by all, despite the respiratory illness (Covid negative) that swept through several of the attendees. The snow was good and the smiles, laughter and camaraderie was in abundance during the 4 day event. Tower 77 and Polaris 74 year books were present at the reunion and were reviewed in depth as each member chimed in on information about our fellow classmates, past and present.
On that note, we all discussed and remembered Yuri Hreshchyshyn and wondered where he was and what he was doing? His recent passing shed light upon his life and accomplishments and answered most of our questions. Our hats are off to Yuri, and we are all proud that a person who came from our High School could have such a positive impact on so many lives.
Although the dates for the 2025 reunion have not been selected as of this email, all who wish to participate are welcome to join.
Viewing from front left: Ned Falk, Atlanta, GA; Tony D’Angelo, Columbus, OH (Eggert Road Alumni), Kevin Patrick Maloney, Miami, FL; Steve Nisberg, New Jersey, NYC suburbs; Peter Gordon, Sandy, UT; John Kim, Stowe, VT; Bruce Kohrn, Amherst, NY; Peter Mercer, Boulder, CO; Mark Hichar, Boston, MA; Rick Porter, Vero Beach, FL and Park City, UT; Michael Chardack, Salt Lake City, UT; Alex K. Local friend of the gathering.
