Lillian Tillman-DeWitt is 92 years young. And I count her as one of the seven angels who watched over me through trying times. I met Mrs. Tillman, as I knew her then, in December 1979, when I walked through the doors of 165 Clinton Avenue, the building known as the Albany Street Academy high school.…
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Now more than ever, we need to #StandUp4StudentAid
Even in the 1980’s, college was not cheap. I relied on TAP and Pell Grants, as well as a partial scholarship from Hamilton College, just to make it through four and a half years of college life. I say “and a half years” because I spent a summer as a pre-freshman in Hamilton’s Higher Education…
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Chuck The Writer 