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  • Giving 101 – Draelos Scholars: STEM plus life skills Giving 101 – Draelos Scholars: STEM plus life skills
    In July of this year, I and a couple of my staff members had the pleasure of watching the presentations of the 2019 Draelos Scholars Summer Research Interns. This program ...



  • Giving 101 – Peace like a River Giving 101 – Peace like a River
    n a very hot Saturday morning this past June, out in the parking lot of High Point University’s Community Center, I witnessed an inspiring effort to stop the senseless gun ...



  • Giving 101 – The key to successful economic development in High Point Giving 101 – The key to successful economic development in High Point
    I don’t believe there has ever been a time in High Point’s history in which so many positive developments are converging at one time.



  • Giving 101 – Angels on our Shoulders Giving 101 – Angels on our Shoulders
    There is nothing I have encountered thus far in my life as heart wrenching as losing a cherished loved one. Two summers ago my family and I were saying goodbye to my father ...



  • On Dr. Otis Tillman On Dr. Otis Tillman
    Moral courage is perhaps one of the most significant gifts we can give to our community. It is, in many respects, a sharing of one’s heart which has the capacity ...



  • MISSION MISSION
    Ema Mae Bowman, center, visits with Paul Lessard’s family after Paul and Jack rescued her from drowning in her car in raging floodwater. The older I get the more I believe ...



  • The Gift of our “Greatest Generation” The Gift of our “Greatest Generation”
    Those of us who have known and loved members of what Tom Brokaw so aptly described as our Greatest Generation have seen what I believe is the very best in ...



  • How to give the gift of running How to give the gift of running
    Next Tuesday a milestone will be realized when GO FAR celebrates its 15th year of impacting our local kids with the gift of running. I can still remember the day Robin ...



  • Angels in our Midst: our capacity for good Angels in our Midst: our capacity for good
    I’m sitting on a bench in the Hartley YMCA Fitness Center and I’m covered in sweat having just finished working out. I’m wallowing in both oxygen and energy debt and should ...



  • Defeating the Violence Defeating the Violence
    This past summer has been an unusually violent season for our city with multiple shootings and murders that have not only occupied our newspaper’s headlines, but also our thoughts, conversations ...



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