Generosity Overflows for Sarah Gager
Sarah Gager’s decades-long philanthropic journey started with dirty water. As she globetrotted through countries including Jamaica and Denmark, Germany and Bermuda and small villages in Mexico, Gager [...]
A Mentor’s Enduring Legacy: Hector Riollano Fund for Education
Hector Riollano retired after 30 years as director of community schools and assistant principal in Waterbury schools. Yet, every morning post-retirement he still headed to Carrington Elementary School to meet [...]
Chris Brooks Leaves a Legacy for a Better Waterbury
Christopher Brooks As a young accountant in the 1970s, I could see that Waterbury, my hometown, was experiencing seismic changes and that philanthropy would be [...]
Thryza Whittemore Continues a Family Legacy
Thyrza Whittemore J.H. Whittemore was a successful businessman in the iron industry who partnered with fellow industrialist, B.B. Tuttle to form The Tuttle & [...]