The Hopewell Valley Education Foundation is a not-for-profit organization serving the needs of the public schools that make up the Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Our mission is to enhance the educational experience in Hopewell Valley schools through the identification and development of community partnerships and resources.

The Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Dromgoole

This poem speaks of each generation's responsibilities to its successors.

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."

PO Box 553
Pennington, NJ 08534
info@hvef.org

The goals of the HVEF are:

• To develop a viable network of businesses and residents to support and promote the efforts of the Foundation through financial contributions or other resources.
• To identify “people resources” (employees, business leaders, educators, mentors, etc.) who are willing to share their expertise with the Hopewell Valley Regional School District.
• To conduct and support community events and activities that promote the Foundation's efforts.
• To offer grants to further the mission of the Foundation.
• To achieve the mission in collaboration with the Hopewell Valley Regional School District.