Planned Giving

The Copper Beech Society

Planned Giving provides donors with the opportunity to include Hackley in their estate plans. Planned gifts include bequests, IRA distributions, pension plan or life insurance designations, and charitable remainder trusts and lead trusts. The Copper Beech Society recognizes members of the Hackley community who have included the School in their estate plans.

To learn more about including Hackley in your estate plan, please contact John Gannon P '21 at 914-366-2654 or jgannon@hackleyschool.org.

1995 Roark and 2018 Roark and Hui at the Old Oak.

Roark Redwood ’95 on joining the Copper Beech Society and why he chose to include Hackley in his estate plans: “I left Hackley a smart, strong, educated, empathetic, and happy person because I was treated as the individual I am. For this my gratitude is undying.”

Jacques Wertheimer ’60 reflects on his and his wife Lynne’s decision to include Hackley in their estate plans: “We have a debt to the past and a responsibility to the future and to our children and their children, which is why my wife and I have included Hackley in our annual giving and charitable trust programs. For as a great man said, “The future depends on what we do today.”

Eduardo Cue ’69 on planning ahead for Hackley: “In the fifty years since graduating, Hackley has never been far from my mind. Over the decades the two basic principles the School taught me – to strive for excellence and show empathy for others, as the inscription, “Enter Here To Be And Find A Friend”, so marvelously illustrates – have taken on added meaning. And as I travel in an increasingly violent and unjust world, I think frequently of the peace and hope symbolized by The Hilltop.”

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