Har-Ber Run Honors Former Teacher
Posted: November 4, 2009 at 7:29 a.m.
SPRINGDALE — Organizers raised $2,163 Saturday for the Thomas Culp Memorial Scholarship Fund during Har-Ber High School’s Run to Remember.
The first memorial scholarship established at Har-Ber High School is in honor of a former teacher, Principal Danny Brackett said.
The idea for the event came from Chase Stepp, a Har-Ber junior in the Environmental and Spatial Technologies lab. He organized the Run to Remember as a service project for the lab and because he enjoys running.
Culp was not one of Stepp’s teachers, but Culp taught Stepp’s friends.
“We’re hoping it’s going to be an annual thing,” Stepp said.
“It worked out well,” Debra Lamb, lab facilitator, said.
The event included a one-mile run around Har-Ber campus and two longer runs through the Tuscany subdivision near the school, Stepp said.
The money raised will be added to a scholarship award established by Culp’s parents following his death.
His parents pledged to provide $6,000 over three years with two $1,000 scholarships awarded each year.
Culp, 29, died in a car accident Jan. 5 while driving from his home in Fayetteville to a teacher inservice in Springdale.
His vehicle overturned after hitting a patch of ice in south Fayetteville.
Culp taught Advanced Placement biology at the school and a science class for students who speak English as a second language.
Har-Ber Principal Danny Brackett said Culp startedteaching at the school in the 2006-07 school year, which was the second year the school was open.
His father, Dr. William Culp, said Culp had four siblings who became medical doctors, but Culp wanted to be a teacher.
“They all said he was the brightest of the bunch, but he chose to be a teacher,” his father said.
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