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From left, CHIP Inc. board member Rosalee Landry and the Rev. Kim Hoare, director of The Carpenter’s Boat Shop, present the Ruth Ives Humanitarian Award to Abbie Healey at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle May 23. (Tim Badgley photo) |
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By Tim Badgley
Lincoln Academy junior Abbie Healey received the 2014 Ruth Ives Humanitarian Award for her commitment to social justice and equality at the Lincoln Academy all-school assembly May 23.
Healey has been the leader of the gay-straight alliance for two years, volunteered at a men’s homeless shelter, and traveled to Taos, N. M. to work on the construction of a home for Habitat for Humanity.
Ruth Ives founded the nonprofit Community Housing Improvement Project in 1984 to provide heating assistance and housing repairs and improvements to area residents. Along with her husband, the Rev. Bobby Ives, she co-founded the Carpenter’s Boat Shop, an apprenticeship school in wooden boat construction. She died in 2006 following a battle with cancer.
The Rev. Kim Hoare, executive director of The Carpenter’s Boat Shop, and CHIP board member Rosalee Landry presented Healey with the award along with the book, “Americans Who Tell the Truth.” Healey is the seventh recipient of the award.
