WE REMEMBER SIDNEY
Born in Sykesville, Maryland.
Attended Carroll County Public School System.
Part of Robert Moton High School & Alumni.
Attended Maryland State Teachers College(now part of Bowie State University).
Served as Executive Director and a key figure in the establishing of The Dorsey Educational Fund,Inc.
The Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Droomgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
Too 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 fear 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 your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head;
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followed after me to-day
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 this bridge for him!
Source: Father: An Anthology of Verse
(EP Dutton & Company, 1931)