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A gift An inspiring educator, an environmentalist and a tireless community leader, Kevin Sheehy was president of the Greenbelt Conservancy. He founded The Greenbelt Naturally photo contest - designed to encourage young photographers. Preservation of the Greenbelt, which is as much a concept as it is a place, depends on public education and awareness. People will preserve the things they love. They love the things they know and they know the things they are taught. Kevin Sheehy was keenly aware of this. And so he he set about making Staten Island a better place, one youngster at a time. Teaching through example and encouragement, Kevin Sheehy, who died in 2001 at the all-too-young age of 58, introduced untold numbers of people, many of them youngsters, to the wonders and delights of the Greenbelt, guiding them to experiences and memories they will treasure all their lives. This contest is but one more of Kevin Sheehy's gifts to a future he envisioned and helped to build, but did not live to see. When he died, Kevin Sheehy was eulogized in a Staten Island Advance editorial with these words: "By far his greatest accomplishment, he would tell you, is the army of children whose lives he affected. And he did so as only a great teacher who is also a great man can." |
In doing so they experienced the
incomparable pleasure of discovery and the enjoyment of our natural
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Since 1992, New York City
students, inspired by the Conservancy's “Greenbelt Naturally” photo
contest, have interpreted their impressions of Staten Island’s
beautiful 2,800-acre Greenbelt through the lens of a camera.