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Brett
Renfrew was a man who followed his dreams. As
a high school freshman, he followed them to
Washington, D.C. and then on to Russia with the
People to People program. Before he graduated
Morgan, his dreams had taken him to Harvard, to
their summer school program, and with AFS to the top
of the Sandia mountains in New Mexico and to
Chicago's inner city. After Tufts and Harvard,
and a teaching stint on an island in the Atlantic
Ocean, his dreams led him across the Pacific Ocean
to Thailand. There he found a culture
commensurate with his capacity to dream, a culture
startling in its beauty and completely engrossing in
its very uniqueness. There also he found a
woman to share his dreams.
But he
didn't stay there. He came home, home to
teach, here at The Morgan School. He came home
bringing all that vast experience with him, to share
it with his students. All that he'd seen, all
that he'd done, he brought to school with him each
day - often on a bicycle.
The lesson
we can take from Brett's biography has become the
principle behind the awarding of the Brett Renfrew
"Follow Your Dreams" scholarship. Each year,
the Renfrew family and the Clinton Education
Foundation will provide a student who has a dream,
with the opportunity to follow that dream. The
scholarship is available to both seniors and
underclassmen. Perhaps, like Mr. Renfrew, you
would like to enroll in some college's summer
program, or perhaps you would like to spend a
semester in Thailand or France: play soccer in
Argentina; attend the National Leadership conference
in Washington; take guitar lessons at the Center for
Creative Youth; do volunteer work at a National
Landmark site. Or maybe you'd simply like to
use the money for college. Whatever your dream
is, we want you to follow it. And then,
hopefully, bring some of what you've learned back
home to share with us.
The
application process is simple. Complete the
application form
and return it to your guidance counselor before the
deadline. |
