Scholarship Recipient Meets One of His Benefactors

Left:  Brent Strickland and Mr. Robert Dew

Dr. Buddy Dew, Jo Ann Dew Reichen, Gingy Dew Cuthbertson, and Robert Dew grew up in Warren and received educations in the Warren Public Schools.  Several years ago, they created and began awarding the Dew Scholarship in honor of their parents Dr. Hogan Allen "Jack"  and Mrs. Freddie Dew.  The scholarship is given each year to a graduating Warren High School senior.  Dr. Dew lives in St. Louis.  His sister Jo Ann lives in Plano, Texas; and his sister Gingy lives in Warren.  Robert, a graduate of Harvard School of Business, lives in Boston.  They seldom get to meet the young people who are awarded the Dew Scholarship.  This week, however, Robert, who played for the Arkansas Razorbacks, returned home to deliver the eulogy for his high school football coach Jamie Raper. While in Warren, he attended the Warren basketball games against Monticello, and during those games a young man slipped onto the bleacher beside him and introduced himself.  That young man was Brent Strickland, a recipient of the Dew Scholarship.  The two discussed where Brent is on his education plan and what his plans are for the future.  Later Robert Dew told a salineriverchronicle.com reporter than Brent writes to them every year with an update on his education.  Brent told the same reporter that it meant a lot to him to get to meet Mr. Robert Dew who is helping him achieve his higher education.