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Philip Axelrod

Philip Alexrod

Platt instilled in Philip a lifelong love of learning, and the understanding that one should never stop learning new things. Platt helped inspire his belief that someone is only truly successful when giving one's all to the community and the world.

Two female students smiling in a hallway during the Summer Bridge program. A boy reads a book while sitting on a bean bag chair, while another boy reads on a nearby bench in a colorful elementary school classroom. A boy plays saxophone while students play other instruments in the background at Edison Middle School. Meriden elementary school students smile while jump-roping in their gym class. Meriden Public Schools superintendent Mark Benigni smiles with a student on the first day of school 2018.