ABS Bridge Builder Recipients
1977-78 Cliff Buchanan
1978-79 A. J. Rollings
Beulah Sparks
Lucy Glass
1979-80 Vernon and Marinel Castleberry
1980-81 Irven Lee
Mabel Romine
Bennie Lee Fudge (posthumous)
1981-82 John Huber
1982-83 Tom and Margaret Bullington
1983-84 Jimmy Crafts
1984-85 Joe Olson
1985-86 Vernon Reece
1986-87 Bobby Ray Hudson
1987-88 William and Flossie Smith
1988-89 Billy and Pauline Lovell
1989-90 Lois Brooks
Joe and Donna Kaye Brooks
1990-91 Doyle Banta
Don and June Osborne
1991-92 Burl Grubb
Sidney and Jewell Hardison
1992-93 Bennie and Jerri Lovell
1993-94 Bruce and Ruby Hall
1994-95 Jake and Georgia Williams
1995-96 Wayne and Shirley Holt
1996-97 Toney and Joan Vining
1997-98 Dwight Thompson
Frances Gray
1998-99 Ralph and Nola Moore
Ann Sasser
1999-00 Bill and Burnetta Murrell
2000-01 Joan Stanford
2001-02 Melvin Miller
2002-03 Dianne Robinson
2003-04 Billy and Denise Hall
2004-05 Landy and Marsha Raley
2005-06 Tony and Camille Andrews
2006-07 Lynn and Vickie Persell
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“THE BRIDGE BUILDER”
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide -
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."
Will Allen Dromgoole
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