Upward Bound Wraps for the school year

Today was the last Upward Bound for Elementary Awards for the 2021-2022 school year. Today’s ceremony marks over 30 years of the Citrus County Rotary Ray Darling Upward Bound Awards and Ceremonies. Nearly 20,000 students have been recognized as Upward Bound recipients for individual successes.

Today’s inspirational guest speaker for our students was James “Boe” Anderson a personal friend of the late Ray Darling founder of the Upward Bound’s Award Ceremonies and who the Award is now named for. Mr. Anderson is a fourth-generation Floridian who at age 15 attended Tampa Bay Tech High School where he learned the printing trade. He later began his commercial experience in printing and in 1980 Gemini Graphics Printing, Inc., which remains in operations today. In 1995 the company moved from Tampa to Homosassa where Mr. Anderson started the Olde Mill House Gallery and Printing Museum. Mr. Anderson inspired the students to continue to persevere.

Ray Darlings’s vision that every student is worthy and can be successful and should be acknowledged for that continues because of the support from each of the Citrus County Rotary Clubs in Citrus County. Upward Bound students have gone on to become successful and our community continues to benefit because of the work of the Citrus County Rotary Ray Darling Upward Bound Awards and Ceremony.

While this school year’s Upward Bound ceremonies are over, the work of our students, their families, our schools, our educators, our community, our Rotaries, and Rotarians continue.

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