If life were a 1955 black and white movie, Todd Scroggy would be one of the good guys, a Jimmy Stewart perhaps, who quietly and somewhat reluctantly becomes a leader.
Todd is a 17-year-old senior at Metcalfe County High. It’s a small rural school with about 500 students where everyone knows everyone else.
A star quarterback on the Hornets’ football team, Todd is also ranked fifth in his class. He maintains a 4.0 grade-point average and plans to attend college, perhaps to become an engineer
Becoming a class leader wasn’t part of Todd’s original game plan. “It just kind of worked out that way “he said In fact he didn’t even choose to be a quarterback. “They just picked me out
for it,” he said. “d rather be a receiver but there wasn’t anybody to play quarterback.”
When he is not at school or on the football field, Todd helps with chores on his family’s 180-acre farm near Edmonton and cares for his sister’s Doberman Pincer pups while she is
away at college. He spends his summers working at his father’s saw mill.
The slow simple life in a small Kentucky town suits Todd for now.
“I like the peace and quiet,” he said while sitting on his family’s porch soaking up the warm autumn sun. And, he said, the people of Metcalfe County are a close and caring lot.
