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...association away from merely assessing athletic issues as they related to Harvard blacks and undertake a community oriented program," Jackson said during a brief pit-stop for dinner at Lowell House. Add those hopes to Jackson's personal desire (as a former high school boxer at Fordham Prep in New York City) to "bring boxing back to Harvard," and you have the ingredients that produced tonight's fundraiser for the Boston chapter of the Leukemia Society. (Three dollar tickets are available at the door or at 60 Boylston...
...also had to turn around and sell the Boston Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) on the idea. Although initially unenthusiastic, the local boxing officials were impressed that Jackson had already lined up several New York Golden Glovers through Dick Mc Guire, his football trainer and boxing instructor at Fordham Prep. A 40-year veteran of the fight game, McGuire helped Jackson convince the Boston AAU of the project's feasibility...
...specimens known as "neat small-town kids." "Amy" is near the top of her class, with mid-500 verbals, high-600 math and science. She is also poor, white and "geo"-she would add to the geographic and economic diversity that saves Brown from becoming a postgraduate New England prep school. While just over 20% of the New York State applicants will get in, almost 40% will be admitted from Region 7-Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Amy's high school loves her, and she wants to study engineering. Brown badly wants engineering students; unfortunately, Amy spells engineering wrong...
Funding for summer programs at prep schools is very restricted and government programs do not provide grants. "A charitable, tax-exempt institution can reach many students on a permanent basis," he said...
...graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy, Cephas taught history at the Choate-Rosemary Hall School in 1975. "Prep schools can turn a bright, energetic kid around and send him flying in the direction of further education and achievement," he said...