This spring, in conjunction with Greg Mortenson’s visit to Emma Willard, students have been collecting “Pennies for Peace,” a fundraising effort started by schoolchildren in the Midwest to help Mortenson build schools for girls in Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia.  In the 1820s, many of Madame Willard’s pupils who hailed from Waterford belonged to a Presbyterian organization called “The Female Cent Society,” a fundraising organization that helped needy boys attend Princeton Theological Seminary.  Same principle, same pennies (albeit much more valuable then)–very different causes!