Welcome to the Andrea Harvey Memorial Fund Website

Dear Friends,

The Department of Human service Program presents the 25th annual City Run/Walk which will be on Sunday April 3rd. A portion of the event's proceeds will benefit the Andrea Harvey Memorial Fund, which gives scholarships to needy high school seniors entering college (This year we will provide 2 $1,000 scholarships to seniors from Cambridge Rindge and Latin and 2 $1,000 scholarships to seniors at East Boston High School). We also support domestic violence prevention programs.

We will meet for the Run/Walk at Russell Youth Center, 680 Huron Ave at 8:45 – 10 AM Race begins at 10:30 AM.


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You can support the fund by registering using this form for the race or register online.

You can support the fund directly by using the pledge sheet to raise donations. If you are unable to attend, but would like to send a contribution to the fund, please make a donation online.

Andrea Harvey loved teaching, walking, food, music and people.  This fund was established in 2005 to continue Andrea's life work to provide educational opportunities and to help raise awareness about domestic violence.

Learn more about Andrea ...

Over the past six years, we have been able to honor Andrea Harvey's memory by awarding more than $12,000 in scholarship to needy and deserving students from East Boston High School (EBHS) and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS). This year, we are proud to announce we will be doubling the number of scholarship awards to 4 students per year... Read more about it in our 2010 Holiday Appeal.

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The Dynamics of Domestic Violence

The sudden loss of Andrea from our lives forced us to seek reasons for the loss, and to ask questions about domestic violence, how and why it happens, and how to prevent it from happening. One of the dynamics that we encountered had to do with question of why battered women stay with, or return to their batterers. The term "blaming the victim" was coined by Ann Jones in her book, Next Time She'll Be Dead.

Blaming the victim - "... Surviors of severe trauma--combat soldiers, prisoners of war, rape victims, disastger victims, hotages, battered women---universally attribute their survival largely to good luck. But who wants to believe that our well-being hinges upon chance? Instead we trace the root of trouble from where it flowers. ... we search the victim for those peculiarities of psyche and circumstance that made the life give way, or, worse, impelled the victim to step across the line herself, deliberate and heedless .... we try 'to account for the victim's behavior by seeking flaws in her personality or moral character' because, having no knowledege of terror or coercision, we presume that in similar circumstances we 'would show greater courage and resistance than the victim.'"

From Next Time She'll Be Dead, pg. 174

"...[T]he battered woman whom we think of as 'staying' with a batterer, or returning to him, is usally a woman held captive by the force of separation assault. And as we have seen time and time again, when a woman perseveres in her struggle to get free, the grand finale of separation assault is often her own death."

From Next Time She'll Be Dead, pg 150.
 
Obituary
Andrea Harvey, 28; teacher had passion, drive
Boston Globe