LCS bus driver Constance Davis has recently received recognition from Virginia Tech for her role the past 16 years in helping low-income and potential first-generation students receive a college education.
One Saturday a month during the entire school year, Davis, or "Ms. Connie" as she’s known to the kids, drives a busload of seventh through 12th-grade students from Lynchburg to the campus of Virginia Tech for the Talent Search and Upward Bound program. This is a wonderful opportunity for students who may not go to college without the help of this program.
Thomas G. Wilson, the director of the program, recently sent Davis a plaque and thank you letter saying, “While we connect with the students during the visits to the school each month, it is in no small part due to your efforts that students attend our Saturday sessions and are able to get more of the full effect the programs can offer.”
The visits are considered a field trip, and they are paid for by the program at Virginia Tech. Davis said she’s had as many as 21 students on the bus with her, and while she usually has a chaperone, she has never canceled a trip because a chaperone was unable to attend. She’d simply drive the kids herself. Davis even drove her own daughter in the past when she first took part in this program.
This Saturday is last trip of the school year. Davis will leave from the bus shop at around 7:00 a.m., pick up the participating students at E. C. Glass High School, and arrive back in Lynchburg around 5:00 p.m.