Firm Gives Promise and Effort Awards to Students at Lord Stirling School

The firm proudly presented Hoagland Longo Promise Awards and Hoagland Longo Effort Awards to six fortunate students at Lord Stirling Community School in New Brunswick on Wednesday, June 20th.

The firm proudly presented Hoagland Longo Promise Awards and Hoagland Longo Effort Awards to six fortunate students at Lord Stirling Community School in New Brunswick on Wednesday, June 20th.

The Hoagland Longo Promise Awards went to two 8th graders, Marbel Rodriguez and Jasmine Montes who will each receive $500 from the firm when they graduate from high school. Fifth graders Jose Torres and Gibana Sabio received Hoagland Longo Effort Awards in the amount of $100 each for their great efforts toward achievement in the fifth grade. Ella Hill, a graduating senior at New Brunswick High School and Jose David, formerly of New Brunswick, and now a graduating senior at North Brunswick High School, received $500 each from the firm which they were promised as 8th graders upon graduation from high school. Ella Hill will attend Bloomfield College and Jose David will attend Montclair State College this fall.

Hoagland Longo has a close and continuing relationship with New Brunswick schools and, in particular, with Lord Stirling Community School. Since 2000, many students from Lord Stirling and New Brunswick Middle School have attended tutoring sessions on Tuesday afternoons at the law firm. Attorneys, paralegals and administrative assistants share pizza and discussions about the news and then go about the business of offering help with homework. "This is a very rewarding experience for the tutors as well as the students," said Ms. Weisblatt, Counsel to the law firm and founding member of the program known as the New Brunswick Outreach Tutoring Program. "It means so much to see students whom we tutored as young children become successful young adults. This is true particularly when we give out the Promise Awards to eighth graders and, four years later, present them with a check for $500 as they graduate from high school. What could be better than that?"