Significant gift is worth preserving
By Strother Bullins
Winston-Salem Journal
In those rare cases in life when you find yourself on the receiving end of a significant philanthropic gesture, what should you do? I, among the many hundreds of others who have attended Nancy Reynolds Elementary School in northwest Stokes County, think that it is time to say “thank you” - by asking the Stokes County Board of Education to commit the necessary resources to preserving this incredible, valuable and unique gift to its community from the R.J. Reynolds family.
Nancy Reynolds School is the direct result of the very best kind of philanthropy. In 1923, the Reynolds Foundation fully financed the construction of a memorial school built at the birthplace of R.J. and Will Reynolds’ mother, Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds.
Since the opening day of the school in 1923, when my grandmother walked in as a first-grader, I and many other members of my family have attended Nancy Reynolds. I played basketball in the best gymnasium in the county (cooler than the high schools’), had the best field in Little League baseball (which lessened the personal blow of playing left field), and was in class plays in the auditorium (the school’s centerpiece).
Winston-Salem Journal
In those rare cases in life when you find yourself on the receiving end of a significant philanthropic gesture, what should you do? I, among the many hundreds of others who have attended Nancy Reynolds Elementary School in northwest Stokes County, think that it is time to say “thank you” - by asking the Stokes County Board of Education to commit the necessary resources to preserving this incredible, valuable and unique gift to its community from the R.J. Reynolds family.
Nancy Reynolds School is the direct result of the very best kind of philanthropy. In 1923, the Reynolds Foundation fully financed the construction of a memorial school built at the birthplace of R.J. and Will Reynolds’ mother, Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds.
Since the opening day of the school in 1923, when my grandmother walked in as a first-grader, I and many other members of my family have attended Nancy Reynolds. I played basketball in the best gymnasium in the county (cooler than the high schools’), had the best field in Little League baseball (which lessened the personal blow of playing left field), and was in class plays in the auditorium (the school’s centerpiece).
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Good article, Strother.
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