To the Editor:

I am writing to you today in my capacity as the chairwoman of the J. Wyatt Spencer Memorial Scholarship Fund and to invite your readership to join us for our annual golf tournament. This is yet another exciting year for us!

We have thus far been able to award a total of $16,500 to six deserving Berne-Knox-Westerlo graduates who have gone on to higher education and we are thrilled to be announcing our Sixth Annual Golf Tournament to raise funds for that scholarship account.

This year, our tournament will be held on Sept. 24 at the Colonie Golf & Country Club in Voorheesville. This spectacular venue has more amenities for golfers than one can imagine, not to mention a bucolic setting with a fabulous restaurant and ballroom for our banquet!

All levels of golfers are welcome. Our golfers range from beginner to scratch. If you don’t have the time or inclination to golf, we’d love folks to join us for our not-your-average sports banquet and incredible raffles after golf. The cost is just $125 per golfer (four-person scramble and includes 18 holes, cart, lunch, specialty hole admission, and dinner) and $40 for dinner-only guests.

Our have-to-be-seen-to-be-believed raffles this year include a signed Masters’ Tournament Pin Flag and a vacation for four for one week in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Not to mention some of the most incredible themed baskets you’ll ever bid on, great foursomes of golf to many area courses, a 50/50 raffle, and the list goes on. You name it, we are probably raffling it off!

Also, we are looking for sponsors (great advertising!), and donors.  For $100, we will make a placard of business or organization logos and place them at one of the 18 holes on the course. We also will gratefully accept any items, gift certificates, and services donated for our basket raffle and monetary donations from interested individuals, businesses, and organizations.

We have always been amazed at, humbled by, and grateful for the outpouring of support that the communities The Enterprise reaches have shown us. Help us to carry on again this year and consider partnering with us in whatever capacity you can.

Numbers have to be turned into Colonie Country Club by Sept. 19, so don’t delay if you’d like to join us!  Please call me at (518) 872-9020 or email to find out more information and to register to play, pledge, or donate.

We promise you’ll have a great time and a special day to come together as a community to remember, honor, and support Wyatt Spencer’s legacy and pay tribute to his classmates who so diligently carry their friend’s memory forward.  This scholarship was established to make some sense from a tragedy and to make a great loss serve some purpose.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo is not a wealthy school district, but it does have a wealth of talented and deserving students.  Please join us for a fun-filled day you won’t soon forget and an event you’ll want to attend year-after-year — we guarantee it!

Kelley R. Hess

J. Wyatt Spencer Memorial

Scholarship Fund Committee