BROOKLAND-CAYCE HIGH
SCHOOL
EDUCATION
FOUNDATION
MISSION
The Brookland-Cayce High School Education Foundation (BCHS Foundation) was established as a non-profit, tax exempt organization to raise funds and promote educational programs for Brookland-Cayce High School through donations of goods, services, and money from corporations, business groups, foundations, and individuals.
The BCHS Foundation is governed by a volunteer board of directors, composed of educational, corporate, civic, alumni, and parent leaders. The board's responsibilities are to coordinate the collection of donor funds from multiple sources, to insure the safekeeping and accurate accounting for these funds, and to approve the fair and proper disbursement of the funds.
Further, the mission of the BCHS Foundation shall be to continue to build on Brookland-Cayce High School's rich heritage of academic excellence. This community-based effort will provide supplemental funding for educational programs, equipment, and/or projects which may be otherwise unbudgeted.
HISTORY
On June 17, 1990 a fire destroyed much of the original Brookland-Cayce High School building, currently known as the South Wing. There was a strong outpouring of sentiment from B-C graduates and community members that the school should be rebuilt. This led to a year long restoration of the building. The strong support that was received for this project from generations of B-C graduates led to discussions concerning the creation of a foundation for future generations, but the foundation remained a dream until 1996.
In that year, B-C graduate Rev. Dr. Wade Franklin Hook (Class of 1938), a Lutheran pastor and educator, contacted Principal Barry Bolen concerning his desire to endow a memorial scholarship for a graduating B-C senior in honor of his mother and long-time Brookland Grammar School teacher, Mrs. Mary Ann Dreher Hook. That donation of $10,000 provided the stimulus for the organization of a foundation to provide a way to administer the Hook Scholarship and similar future donations. On May 7, 1997, Ed Kirkland submitted a letter to the Lexington County School District Two Board of Trustees officially chartering the Brookland-Cayce High School Education Foundation. The Foundation's Board of Directors held their first meeting in August of 1997, and Ed Kirkland was elected as its first President.
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