Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goal is to get the business community and educators together using athletes as a nice tie-in," says Ruth, winner of the 1985 Outland Trophy as the nation's best collegiate lineman...
...Ruth is in the process of creating a nationwide non-profit group in which professional athletes find business executives and pair them with local high schools...
Because professional athletes have business connections and are admired by most children, Ruth says, they can jump-start any program...
...Although Ruth has received little support around Harvard, he says The Boston Globe, NYNEX and BayBank of Boston are interested in his proposal...
...Ruth says student-teaching in Dorchester, which has one of the city's highest poverty rates and lowest education rates, has reminded him of his own uphill struggle...