The Margaret Hall School for Girls in Versailles, Kentucky, founded in 1891, was given to the Episcopal Order of Saint Helena by the Diocese of Lexington in 1931. Despite heavy debt and the need for extensive repairs, the sisters managed to build it into an excellent small college preparatory school. Unfortunately, circumstances forced the closure of the school in 1979, but the school's Board of Directors resolved to perpetuateMargaret Hall's eighty-year legacy of educational service.

Fulfilling this resolve, the Board established the Margaret Hall Foundation in June 1980 creating an endowment fund derived from income generated by selling the school's furnishings and facilities. Financed by this endowment, the Foundation awards annual grants to secondary independent schools.

The Foundation maintains its affiliation with the Episcopal Church. Four of the seven Directors are sisters in the Order of St. Helena, a community of lay and ordained women. They operate three convents, two in New York and one in Augusta, GA. For information on the Order of St. Helena, click here.

The Margaret Hall Foundation Board of Directors

John R. Mink, D.D.S., Chair
Sister Ruth Juchter, O.S.H., V. Chair
Sister Linda Julian Dowler, O.S.H
Sister Ellen Stephen, O.S.H.
Sister Cornelia Ransom, O.S.H.
Mrs. Olive Long
Mr. G. Edward Henry, II