A Legacy of Leadership 
Our vision of the Jesse Lee Home 

Wards of the Jesse Lee Home pose in front of a map of Alaska, ca. 1950. Photo courtesy of the Seward Community Library Association.

Why the Jesse Lee Home?

Housing our students at the Jesse Lee Home is an intuitive fit. The Jesse Lee Home, located in Seward, is an ideal place for this leadership school because it is on the road system only 120 miles from Anchorage, the transportation hub of the State, on the rail system and has a small airport. Seward is small enough to provide a quiet, serious educational environment.

It is anticipated that this leadership school will partner with Seward's existing educational facilities including Seward High School, Alaska Vocational Technical Center, National Forest Service, National Park Service, Alaska Science Learning Laboratories, City of Seward's Teen Youth Center, Boys and Girls Club, University of Alaska Marine Science Center, Kenai Peninsula College, the Chugach Museum and Institute of History and Art, the proposed Seward Library/Museum and the Alaska SeaLife Center. Taking advantage of the wide variety of educational facilities in Seward will strengthen and diversify this leadership program.

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