Jim Tutterow Memorial Scholarship
Davie High School was ready to initiate a tennis program but had no coach. Principal Jack Ward approached one of his youngest faculty members and asked him to be the Tennis Coach. The young man was not even a tennis player but he was one to accept a challenge! He researched and read everything he could find about the game and its fundamentals. With patience he shared the knowledge he had acquired from study to youth wanting to be tennis players. He launched an almost unbelievable tennis program. In the spring of 1976, the Davie High boys won the North Piedmont Conference tennis championship. Jim Tutterow was named the “Conference Tennis Coach of the Year.”
No one ever lived that had any more heart or greater will than Jim Tutterow. Knowing that he was the victim of cancer, an illness from which few escape, he devoted his full resources and energy to teaching, coaching, and helping others. The popularity of the game of tennis in Davie County and the expanded number of courts is a tribute to the heart and will of Jim Tutterow.
He was not only a History teacher, he was a historian. He taught his students far more than one could ever find in a history book He researched and wrote a complete history of his church and community. He was also assistant historian for the county. He was active in community activities, always working and striving to make life better for others. His contagious smile always made a sad day brighter.
Life is not measured, or should not be, merely in years of existence. Instead life should be valued on what it accomplished…of the contributions to the betterment of mankind…of the inspiration it offers for others in the future. Thus was the life of Jim Tutterow. He continues to help and inspire others through the scholarship in his memory.
The Jim Tutterow Memorial Scholarship is available to students with general educational pursuits who have played on the Davie High School Tennis Team .