Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to his on-the-field success, Patterson has followed Skelton's example by serving as a mentor for the younger receivers on this season's squad. The confident and charismatic Patterson, the lone senior in the receiving corps, has worked hard...
...Because I'm the only upperclassman who's playing at wide receiver right now, I have to take that leadership role," Patterson said. "But I enjoy the mentor role because I have two younger brothers, and I like playing that older brother role and helping other players...
...waited for that, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing," he says. "It's more important to have access to a mentor or role model...I don't think that the mentoring relationship would necessarily be fostered by more minority administrators...
That would be, for instance, Kevin Clarke, a mild-mannered carpet salesman from Mentor, Ohio, and a loyal Wal-Mart customer, who went ballistic after his son bought a CD by a band named Godsmack that he thought God-awful, particularly a ditty called Voodoo, which seemed to be about suicide. Wal-Mart has long had a policy of banning so-called stickered CDs, those carrying a warning label that the content might not be suitable for children. But Godsmack was stickerless, so Wal-Mart stocked it, until Clarke hollered...
...Michael McCullough became a mentor for me," Anderson said. "He gave me guidance and advised me to come to Harvard. He talked to me about leaving home and exploring the world myself...