Remembering The Smith and Gill families of Highlands, Atlantic Highlands and Middletown issued reams of thanks and gratitude along with great wishes for a happy and successful 2025 to all those who have helped make their Memorial programs that will help others successful projects in this year in memory of the late Amy Lynn Smith Gill.
“As EXTREMELY rare of a cancer that took our Amy, it is NO MATCH to what an EXTREMELY rare and caring soul that she was,” said Brian Gill, widower of the former Hazlet school teacher who died last year. “Although mother nature threw us a “cold curve ball”, everyone showing up is a testament of your love for Amy and how JERSEY STRONG you are all,” Gill continued, referring to the Navesink 5 K that helped raise more funds for the Amy Gill Scholarship Fund.
Since his wife was a teacher in her professional career at Hazlet, in addition to starting the swim team there in 2006, Gil started the Scholarship fund to enable donors help the non-profit group he had formed to offer scholarships to Raritan High School graduates as well as Monmouth and Ocean County Special Olympics. Amy was well known and highly regarded for all her work with children in a variety of phases of their lives throughout her lifetime.
Gill said in the first year of the Run, the program set a record for its 156 members, the most teams ever. That inspired him to set a goal for 200 next year, along with the hope and wishful guarantee the weather will be more seasonable than this year’s event.
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For photos of the Navesink event, as well as https://photoboothpics.fotoshare.co/e/lst4ieN4lPSCbi_fX6S_E for photos of the Appreciation event at The Proving Grund which followed.
Donations from all sources will be distributed at the Hazlet Board of Education Scholarship night in June.
Scholarships will be awarded to a male and female senior on the Hazlet swim team heading to college
For more information on the Amy Lynn Gill Memorial, visit https://www.theamylynngillmemorial.org/
