Bridge Builder Scholarship

The Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide. “
Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,“
You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;“
Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,“
There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”

Beginning with the Class of 2024, the Bridge Builder Scholarship will be presented to the recipients of the H.M. Stewart Award of Excellence (Valedictorian) and the William S. Loyd Award of Excellence (Salutatorian).

Donations to support the scholarship have been made in honor or memory of:

Thomas and Winifred Arrendale
Claus Boelter
Demetrius Dwozan
Dr. Judy Forbes
Richard and Dianne Gallagher
Dr. Ruth Nichols
Dr. Floyd and Tissy Sanders
Eva Marie Seidel