From staff reports
Five Beaufort area high school seniors each received a $1,000 scholarship grant through the Lieutenant General George I. Forsythe Rotary Scholarship Program at the Rotary Club of Beaufort’s May 22, 2024 luncheon meeting.
The five recipients, each nominated by their respective high schools, were selected from a pool of 40 applicants. They are: Destiny Delaney, Whale Branch Early College High School; Reese Myers, Beaufort High School; Brooke Crosby, Battery Creek High School; Langston Simmons, Beaufort High School; and Katherine Bronsan, Beaufort Academy.
The Lieutenant General George I. Forsythe Scholarship is presented annually to graduating seniors from Beaufort County high schools north of the Broad River in memory of Forsythe, a member of the Beaufort Rotary from 1972, when he completed a distinguished 33-year military career, until his passing in 1986. The Beaufort Rotary received 40 applications this year, in what would become a very competitive competition.
Delaney will attend Benedict College; Myers is undecided; Crosby will attend Newberry College; Simmons will attend Morehouse College; and Bronsan will attend Clemson University.
The keynote speaker at the scholarship ceremony was Rotarian John McCardell, a renown historian and former President of Middlebury College and later Sewanee, the University of the South. His simple message to the five high school seniors: Don’t conform, transform!
Joining McCardell as evaluators of the applicants were Rotarians Brenda Litchfield, the Reverend Roy Tripp, Larry Rowland, and retired Brig. Gen. Barney Forsythe, son of Lt. Gen. George I. Forsythe, for whom the scholarship program is named.
