No brag, just fact, I was instrumental in the process of determining the awarding of the NCWW scholarship. I originally recommended the Haywood Community College Professional Crafts--Wood program to the scholarship committee as a candidate. I did this because I am a graduate of the program and know its value. I politely prodded both the committee and the school to work together and complete the whole process of getting both sides' applications submitted and accepted. I was thrilled when the program was accepted by NCWW as the recipient.
I am just as thrilled to learn a worthy, deserving student has been selected and has received the scholarship funds. I have intended all along to meet the scholarship recipient, take them to lunch, get to know them, find out what I might do to help and encourage them in their woodworking, tell them about NCWW, encourage them to join us, tell them the benefits of regularly posting on their woodworking progress and communicating with us as an ongoing part of their woodworking career. To me this is both common sense and common courtesy. I would be doing all of this with the full support of the lead instructor of the program.
To be forced to go to the instructor to find out who the student is seems unnecessary to me. To be thwarted in helping and encouraging both a worthy program and a worthy student is irritating. Someone please inject some common sense into this final stage of a win-win-win relationship.
