Today marked the sixth time that our family has given out the Sam cohn awards at mount Mansfield high school. Every year at this time we make two of the awards as part of the MMU end of year awards . Today we announced the winner of the Sam cohn Bolton mountain scholarships and the Sam cohn musical soul award.. ( we also give scholarships to burlingotn rock camp and camp abenaki .. But those come later in the summer) these are all things that sam really loved doing.. And we love passing on in his honor. The Bolton scholarship is a year pass, gear rental and a helmet for a skier or rider at Bolton.. That was won this year by a kid Nick who was not there this morning. The musical soul award is the recipients choice of acoustic or electric guitar or bass.. at Advanced music. Anyone can nominate someone for the ward.. But the winner is selected at random from a bowl (so Sam can help chose) This year it went to a guy named John who’s evidently a monster guitarist. Gabe did the intro to the music award.., then Diane chose for all the nominations. It was fun and sad at the same time… We love passing Ono the experiences that Sam loved so much..

One other cool and unexpected thing happened at the awards ceremony this morning. As I was messing with my camera, I heard them call out gabes name.. Our math and science kid won one of the schools history awards . He was surprised too.. We’re proud of that kid !

Ok.. It’s 12:30 pm and I still have homework.. More tomorrow..
Nite all, nite Sam
-me