Published 11:01 am Tuesday, March 4, 2025
By Mike Barnhardt
By Bridgett Dillard
Davie Commuunity Foundation
It was a chance for a free college ride to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
All Davie County High School seniors had to do was be accepted on the first round to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 14 of those seniors and their families gathered at Cognition’s Makerspace for the highly-anticipated drawing of the Diana Springer Scholarship, administered by the Davie Community Foundation.
The foundation’s senior program officer, Melissa O’Connor, welcomed everyone and shared the history of the scholarship that brought everyone together for the evening.
The scholarship is a gift from David and Diana Springer to students who attend UNC-Chapel Hill with covered tuition and fees for four years. Though Diana never had the opportunity for a formal education herself, she and David were passionate advocates for learning.
David left the scholarship in his will as a tribute to his wife.
Initially, the scholarship was to be awarded to the first student accepted to UNC-Chapel Hill from Davie County; however, in today’s digital age of electronic notifications, the scholarship must be awarded through the luck of the draw. Participants in the drawing are seniors from Davie accepted in the first round to UNC-Chapel Hill.
The night of the drawing was filled with anticipation as students arrived and sat around a table with notepads and pens laid in front of them. Two foundation board members, Brian Nicolay, chair, and Mike Morton, vice chair, sat in place of two students unable to attend.
Each participant was instructed to write their name on a sheet of paper, fold it three times and place it into a bowl for the drawing.
Dee Matthews, finance officer of the foundation, pulled the names out of the bowl and handed them to O’Connor to be read aloud.
The first name selected was Sadie Link, followed by Raelyn Lankford and the final draw, Sean Lane. Two alternates were selected, should any of the first three choose not to attend UNC-Chapel Hill, Vidhi Sharma and John Holcomb.
“Although only three students were drawn to receive the Diana Springer Scholarship, all 14 should be very proud of their accomplishment in early acceptance into UNC-Chapel Hill,” said Jane Simpson, foundation president.
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