FWCD Morehead-Cain Semifinalist

The Morehead-Cain Foundation announced in December that Lily Hyde ’24 was a Semifinalist for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Only 20 percent of Morehead-Cain nominees advance to the Semifinalist level. The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is a four-year, fully funded educational experience for students of the highest caliber at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her application, Hyde identified her junior year AP English Literature Teacher, Leigh Block, as the educator who has had the most profound impact on her.

Throughout her junior year, Hyde experienced Block’s passion for teaching firsthand. “I don’t think there was one day of class where he didn’t light up as he was teaching, and this is just such a special thing to experience as a student. Whenever I emailed him asking for his opinion on my ideas for approaches to an essay, he would email me back with a long list of the pros and cons of those ideas, adding on other detailed explanations of other avenues I could explore and signing off with an all-caps ‘YOU’VE GOT THIS! YOU’RE GOING TO CRUSH IT! YOU’RE A ROCKSTAR!’” she shared. “It was tremendously reassuring, and the care and attention he dedicated to helping me improve my writing and make it the best it could be made me want to put the same care and attention to it, too. Whatever I do in life, I aspire to be as passionate about it as Mr. Block is about teaching.”

The Morehead-Cain Foundation announced in December that Lily Hyde ’24 was a Semifinalist for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In her application, Hyde identified her junior year AP English Literature Teacher, Leigh Block, as the educator who has had the most profound impact on her.