The Scott and Kori Calvert Endowed Scholarship Will Keep Voices Soaring at NMH

Kori Calvert ’67 has taken what started as a planned gift and transformed it into a scholarship honoring her late husband Scott ’62 to benefit students with a passion for singing.

“We wanted our bequest to support the music program,” Kori explains. “NMH was where Scott discovered singing — a focal point of the rest of his life.”

At Northfield, Kori was exposed to the wider world — and to the joys of singing. “What was so wonderful about Northfield was that almost everybody sang,” she says. “I really loved singing, even though I sang with a monotone. But with all that practice, I did get better!”

Kori and Scott didn’t meet as students — they graduated five years apart — but rather during a ski lesson in Vermont. What started one morning on the slopes blossomed into 44 years of marriage. 

Before Scott’s passing in 2018, he and Kori named NMH as a beneficiary of their IRA and included the school in their will. After his death, Kori designated this gift to establish the Scott and Kori Calvert Endowed Scholarship. Recently, she activated the scholarship through a multiyear pledge matched by This Place, This Moment: The Campaign for Northfield Mount Hermon. The planned gifts remain in place and will eventually boost the scholarship’s impact.

Kori and Scott’s generosity will ensure that the music never stops at NMH. Kori hopes other alumni will join her in making a planned gift. “I think NMH is a better place now that it is on one campus,” she says. “It has elevated the excellence of the place. I want to support those students. Take a look at how impressive the current student body is. How could you not want to reach out and help at least one of those students going forward?”