The first scholarship recipient, a retired factory worker named Bernard Castellano, wrote me a heartfelt letter following his completion of a woodworking certification program the scholarship had funded.
Mr. Doyle,
I never knew your wife personally, though I understand now exactly what she protected all those years ago. I want you to know this scholarship gave me something considerably more valuable than simply new woodworking skills. It gave me purpose again, during a period of my life when I’d genuinely started wondering whether I still had anything meaningful left to contribute.
Thank you, and thank her, wherever she is now, for making this possible.
