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"HOPE"
Dr. Joyce T. Henderson
P.O. Box 19432
Los Angeles, CA. 90019
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From Parade magazine comes the story of self-made millionaire Eugene Land, who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in East Harlem. Mr. Lang had been asked to speak to a class of 59 sixth-graders. What could he say to inspire these students? He wondered how
he could get these predominantly African American and Puerto Rican students even to look at him. Scrapping his notes, he decided to speak to them from his heart.
"Stay in school," he admonished, "and I'll help pay the college
tuition for everyone of you." At that moment the lives of these students were changed. For the first time they had hope. Said one student, "I had something to look forward to, something waiting for me. It was a golden feeling."
Nearly 90 percent of that class went on to graduate from high school.
Young people remember:
"Abraham Lincoln was great, not because he once lived in a cabin, but because he got out of it."
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