20 Years on Fleischmann Road

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the initial groundbreaking ceremony for Holy Comforter Episcopal School's Fleischmann Road campus. The board members, administrators, faculty and staff, parents and alumni who were part of that special day were true visionaries, giving us such a gift in this campus we now call our school home. It's amazing how our campus has changed and grown in such a short amount of time. 
 
The follow poem, The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole, was used repeatedly in 1996 as a call to support the move to Fleischmann Road. As we are in the beginning stages of raising funds to complete their vision of a PK3-8 school, we thought that you might enjoy reading what inspired them.
 
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 fear 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 will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?"

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 this bridge for him."
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