tonight here representing the alumni and friends of the belmont high school scholarship committee we have with us tonight foster wright the tired principal belmont high school and the two sisters elizabeth thousand and five very good so foster welcome ladies welcome here to tell us a little bit about your experience as a belmont high school why don't we start with you was sure i would say it was wonderful belmont high school i was one of the class that actually got to spend six years at belmont high school because the middle school and the fall because the middle school had burned down around the so i actually got a lot of time in the building right was very interesting but yes i'd say my th time four years within the high school were great i mean there was such a variety of different different classes that you could take pursue different interests both within the classroom and then all the different extracurriculars i was involved in theater and the marching band and mock trial so i got a chance to experience a lot of different things and what you were you were pretty good at math so i recall yes well i mean that she was quite a good and i could so remember the math teachers talking we used to discuss students behind their ba and so you were did you do anything with your math and when you went to her did you just you know just really you know i was always more interested in english and history and things like that actually i remember mr powell who was one of my teachers would sometimes write little notes on my exams please really good yeah tara what do you remember about your days in high school was an interesting you being the nd of four children so i was sandwiched between overlapping the whole way through so we were involved in i mean not just classes separately but then certainly seen family involved in sports and band and that and everything else was interesting experience yeah she also she's not going to brag but i will for her you're her there seen here the cross country team i think you know and won actually championship yes i wrote about that i want to three years three years and you know my gosh how do you remember this the th i just well like that's a pretty big achievement and so i can remember i do remember that and that's how i actually could remember what year she aspect of the issue that we're looking at might also involve the public safety secretary or talk about trafficking of opioids and sentinel and we you know they put together proposals a plan and again that can cross the lines from being administrative actions that we can take on our own or whether it's m legislation which we've done twice related to opioids file pieces of legislation then working with the legislature to try to get those passed and then of course once they're passed and signed into law then you have to actually follow through for grew older and and that's them which which can be challenging know the thing that strikes me about what you've both chosen to do and i i think i might have been able to predict this when you're in school is that you're doing things that actually impact other people and you know it's a service related thing it's you doing things that i mean the policy of opiate that's such a critical thing for us to solve and to be involved in that is i think very valuable and of course you are you're right at the pointy end of the spear yes i say that thinking you know this is a hard job it's a lot of hours and i can remember yes it was like him but it's a worthwhile thing to do when you are you know kind of at the spend some time in the u k so a lot of interesting jobs there and then i switched over to cyber electronic warfare which is what i do now and how long ago did you do that it was just a couple years well few years ago now years ago being an m p in a combat  what she's clearly smarter than i am i'm not going there but i think you're both good in math that's what i think she could run faster than you absolutely yes that's been proven outside of time yeah yeah yeah so  we as i mentioned early a few of the friends of the eleven friends of the film high school a scholarship to me we've raised about three hundred and eighty thousand dollars we're trying to get the number up to over a one billion dollars a lot of the community surrounding us or have have problems over a million dollars we give out this past year we gave out for scholarships of three thousand five hundred dollars each we want to we have actually thinking about trying to do that over extended period it was just getting a scholarship for the st year maybe try to give it over two years or three years or even four years so so i mean with tuition is being what they are you know three thousand five hundred dollars is not a lot of money it's what books and it is you know it's it's helpful yeah and  so we're you know working very hard we started this distinguished series distinguished guest series to just let the people in belmont know that the kids graduated from belmont high school are doing quite well and a had been through the alumni and and done a good job raising money what we're thinking and what we're trying to do with this is to make a public appeal making a public appeal to folks out there know that we would like to see contributions come in from the town which is a model that used in a lot of the towns around us and it's a vehicle for raising i think larger sums of money and we're hoping that we can do that and it's all for really good cause i mean we would love to increase the number of scholarships we give and would love to increase the amount we give but we we need to get that basic amount of money so that's the whole purpose you know i'd be interested in actual he was perhaps one of the most energy i mean i would observe him teaching it was an amazing amount of energy that he put out and it would be from one substantial idea to the next substantial idea it was a gift for the school  in a whole multitude of fields it's related to mathematics and science and there's all kinds of research about brains and what music does to develop your brain so that's a good choice but if mr truly i played the clarinet lot so many things that you could do there i always thought there should be a place for every kid and the more opportunities that you had the better the school was for kids and you want kids to want to go there and they want to go for academics but they also want to be part of something and you know a band or orchestra or a theater group that tremendous binding happen so much kids i mean we are the senior class play that actually brings that class together and you know and you have all these groups that have existed over the three years and suddenly they realize this we're all in this together it's kind of a neat thing you had some coaches that might like to talk about you to well you certainly i said oh yeah they were nice cute oh they were there and you guys could be them that's right i used to watch and sometimes they would the girls would be out there in front of guys would be good they was so they it's an organisation they do statewide and yeah you have some some lawyers will come and help you out they say they give you sort of the case notes and you have to put together either for the defense or the prosecution you know you play the witnesses and then you c know it it's a strong program you know it's just again another thing that you kids get to really do things that are real given the example of one of the cases that you did i remember one was about before besides before real judges and real district attorneys are there that kind of look at what you've done to pretty phenomenal show you had mentioned before we started the true dixie's but six years at the high school know elementary schools wellington was you know it was when brooks that came over well they were refurbishing it and i had to make room for him and then when the school burned down we had to make room for us we had those modulars and all that sort of thing  would work i don't know what i would have done if i had to do it by hand because you would have had to know and you know work some kind of a spreadsheet i suppose yeah yeah anything else about but when i that you'd like to share many jobs and also because i was working for the most part for political campaigns you know kept losing so i mean it's a very different experience than a regular college it is so your body can do that it's not it's not for everybody and that's fine you know everybody has different paths that they you know that are it's the best path for them to go yes so it's very regimented in terms of your schedule with me but there was never a moment that you didn't have almost killed that's right there is no no if you have to deal with that yes and that's really you know some people can't do that yes and i think that's one of the ways that they decide whether you should be  selective schools right up there with harvard in terms of applications versus who is selected and then from my class we started i want to say around one thousand one hundred a look one thousand two hundred and we graduated just under nine hundred on graduation day then we had a tell you a funny story i write this is a robert story robert is their brother he's also a west point graduate and robert and i had a bet that between west that was the army navy game and that i would wear a shirt that he gave me that said i believe i remember yeah i beat navy and a lot of my friends up and new hampshire know that i'm a retired naval officer and i lost and i wear that shirt that whole summer when peter had a classmate of his that ended up at harvard one of his closest friends and you know peter was at the academy just busting his help continuously at this point was i ever doing nothing but party  yeah dad and i think you do i said it before i think you doing both doing things that are really important to the world and you know the world needs a lot of help right now