{"id":158078,"date":"2022-09-19T03:37:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=158078"},"modified":"2022-09-20T03:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:53:23","slug":"the-marsh-foundation-celebrates-a-historic-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/09\/19\/the-marsh-foundation-celebrates-a-historic-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh Foundation celebrates big milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 years \u2013 it\u2019s a special milestone and it was celebrated in fine fashion at the Marsh Foundation Friday night and Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The celebration of a century of service to children began with a private social hour and Alumni dinner Friday evening, which was attended by well over 200 people and was deemed a big success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday night’s Alumni dinner at the Marsh Foundation was a big hit. Photo courtesy of Lindsay Bailey<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had a great meal and a lot of fellowship and old stories being told,\u201d Executive Secretary\/Treasurer Jeff Grothouse said. \u201cWe had students come back along with former employees and it was a great night. It couldn\u2019t have been any better and we were able to show off the new building with the new cafeteria and new gymnasium \u2013 people really loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday\u2019s campus-wide celebration was open to the public and a steady stream of people flowed in throughout the day to enjoy various offerings, including school and administration building open houses, tours of the group homes and the Homestead, a farmer\u2019s market and mum sale and inflatables. Other parts of the celebration included food trailers, cooking and horse demonstrations by current Marsh students, open pond fishing, and a book signing and speech by former Marsh Foundation student Tori Hope Peterson, who was named Mrs. Universe in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day\u2019s festivities closed with a high energy concert by Denver and the Mile High Orchestra in the Ron Bagley Auditorium, followed by a fireworks show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201c100 years is very special for us,\u201d Grothouse said of the Marsh Foundation\u2019s history and the celebration. \u201cIt\u2019s been a great weekend and the weather couldn\u2019t have been any better for the celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marsh Foundation, which was founded by George and Hilinda Vance Marsh, is a not-for-profit children\u2019s services agency that provides services for youth and families in a variety of settings. Services include residential care, family foster care (ages 0-17), adoption and independent living services. The organization is licensed to provide on-campus services for up to 30 children, offers an on-campus school for grades 2-12, and provides a variety of clinical services to campus residents, foster care children and community members throughout western Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, go to marshfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor 100 years \u2013 it\u2019s a special milestone and it was celebrated in fine fashion at the Marsh Foundation Friday night and Saturday. The celebration of a century of service to children began with a private social hour and Alumni dinner Friday evening, which was attended by well over 200 people and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 02:41:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158153,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158078\/revisions\/158153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}