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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Growing up in an academic household offered Matt the opportunity to learn both in school and out. "As a parent you try to provide the right environment of learning and communication in the home," his mother says, "but a strong school is important. Parents can't do everything...
...daughter's independence, including her willingness to attend college on the other side of the country. "I guess I just didn't have the mindset for it at Antoinette's age. When I was her age, I had all the ideas she did, but I was afraid to leave home. She's just gone out and ventured out of the nest. I'm just so proud of her for that. She is different in that she wanted the adventure more than...
...that she is away from home, Stacy says that "Antoinette has the challenge of not letting her Christian standards go down," and she adds that "that's a big challenge when you're away from everyone and your home church...
...Antoinette was raised a Baptist and at home, the family attends church together. Her mother considers faith to be the most important gift she has given her daughter. Although Antoinette has not yet settled on a local church to attend, she still considers her religion important to her lifestyle. Community service has also been a part of her religious upbringing--she was a community service worker through her Los Angeles church and now co-directs a Phillips Brooks House Association program...
...Ryan G. Schaffer '00 traveled with his mother, Jan, from their home in Cleveland to Philadelphia to see a specialist who might be able to treat his mom's rare form of cancer. Jan Schaffer had first been diagnosed in 1982, and after a brief period of radiation treatment, a doctor declared her cured. She returned to normal life for a while--if you can call being the single mother of three energetic sons normal. But eight years later the cancer returned. When Ryan and his mother spoke with the Philadelphia doctor, he told her she had six months...