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...Years later, after spurning Duke for Kerr and the Crimson, Andre’ matriculated in Cambridge—“a dream come true for me, personally,” Rockey says...
...long before Andre’ was born, business brought Rockey to Harvard for a short trip. He remembers seeing students doing the dishes at a local restaurant, hardly the work of the Ivy League trust fund babies portrayed in the media. Then, he says, “I said a little prayer that one of my kids would go to Harvard...
...Like so many young African students, part of a movement initiated by President Kennedy to encourage immigration from the continent, Rockey arrived in the United States in the early ’70s, looking for opportunity in the post-Civil Rights era. He found it at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he received his degree in 1975, and in Minnesota, where he earned his master’s at Mankato State and went to work for the Burlington Railroad...
...tickled to have kids who really liked sports and got into it,” Rockey says...
...Early on, Rockey put his sons in a position to succeed. Andre’ remembers being dragged out of bed on Saturday mornings as a child to practice with a team full of boys who were four years older. It was Adrian’s U-12 team, and Rockey was the coach...