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About one-third of the 10,383 students at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va., another Ford recipient, are black students seeking a four-year degree are getting help in filling out college applications and financial-aid forms and in selecting courses from members of the school's newly formed alumni association. Reynolds' alumni are also visiting every public high school in the city, where the enrollment is 90% black, seeking to recruit students of promise. Says Richard Starling, president of the alumni association: "We're like a funnel. We want to move minority students...
...recognition as tears streamed down their faces. It was the first time since the day of liberation in May 1945 that Wygodska had seen Zosia Piekorska, 55, one of her closest friends during the two years they spent to gether in concentration camps in Poland. Recalled Piekorska, now from Richmond, Va.: "We suffered together, we were hungry together. We were hoping together." Said Wygodska, now from New York City: "We came out barely alive. And now look at us. They say a cat has nine lives, but a human being has more than one life...
William Pinknoras Richmond...
...some call an "age time bomb"; the average age of a science teacher in Minnesota was 34 a decade ago and is 40 now. "In most school districts when math teachers retire, there is no money to hire another one," explains Elois Irvin, a high school math teacher in Richmond, Calif. "So they just send in the physical education teacher...
SENTENCED. Frederick Richmond, 59, former Democratic Congressman from New York who resigned his seat in August and on the same day pleaded guilty to numerous charges, including income tax evasion and possession of marijuana; to a year and a day in federal prison and $20,000 in fines...