Word: ekperi
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...business manager of Kuumba. This year, Kuumba collaborated with the Brattleboro Area Hospice in Vermont, raised over $15 thousand for charity, and established a pen pal program with children in South Africa. At the conclusion of the student program, the BSA presented The Cecilia Ekperi Scholarship Award, an honor commemorating Cecilia C. Ekperi ’09, a leader of Harvard’s black community who died in 2006. This year’s recipient was Tineisha A. Lozanne, a junior at New Mission High School in Roxbury. Lozanne, who excels both academically and athletically, has her sights...
...Ekperi was playing basketball at the National Cathedral School in Washington D.C. with three other friends when—after taking a shot and landing on her feet—she sat down on the ground, and then proceeded to lay prone on the court. An ambulance arrived, but could not rescue her. A friend of Ekperi who was present at the scene, Patrick Jean Baptiste ’09, said he later spoke to a doctor who said she likely died of an undiagnosed heart problem that was not detected during physical examinations...
...Ekperi was an athlete who played basketball all of her life, Jean Baptiste said. He and Ekperi had become close friends over the course of last summer...
Freshman year, Macey recalled, Ekperi sent a group of friends a text message that simply read: “Just a reminder, you are beautiful. Have a great...
...Ekperi, who was of Nigerian descent, is survived by her parents and an older sister, Macey said...