Town of Highlands Scholarship Golf Tournament

Today marked the 41st anniversary of the Town of Highlands Scholarship Golf Tournament.  The event, which started in 1975 is designed to raise funds for graduating seniors from the Highlands School who are pursuing college degrees.  Each year, the Town gives out in the neighborhood of $35,000 to graduates of the Highlands School.  This is a pretty unique program- the only one in the State of NC.  State statutes prevent municipalities from operating any kind of investment fund for obvious reasons (loosing taxpayer money in the stock market).  However, in 1975, through the hard work of several Highlands folks like Jack Taylor and Jack Brockman, this was passed and has been going strong since.  The principal alone has grown to $800,000.  For the last 6 years, I've served as the Chairman of the Scholarship Fundraising Committee which in that time, has generated over $100,000.  Many of the participants who will play are people who directly benefited from the funds themselves or, have children who benefitted or are benefitting from it.  None of it would be possible without the help of Wildcat Cliffs CC!  The membership and staff have gone above and beyond to make the tournament a great success.  Today's event generated around $23,000.  The scholarship fund is also partially funded by the ABC store (state statutes regarding ABC store profits are interesting to say the least) and other contributions. 

Paul Dalton, Chad Stockton, Matthew Green and Brian at WCCC