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Article: Underwriting the future: two women will send 146 kids to college. (Mrs. Oral Brown, Dr. Ruth Wright Hayre)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- April 1, 1989
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UNDERWRITING THE FUTURE: Two Women Will Send 146 Kids To College
TWO women -- an educator and a real estate broker--hail from different backgrounds, live on opposite coasts of the country and have never met; yet they are linked by a single, exemplary goal. Mrs. Oral Brown and Dr. Ruth Wright Hayre plan to put 146 children through college.
During graduation ceremonies at two Philadelphia public schools last June, Dr. Hayre, a retired educator, made a surprise announcement that instilled hope in the hearts and minds of 119 sixth-graders and their parents. She told them she had made provisions to send them all to college, provided they made good grades and ...