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Medical school with no tuition? No student loans to pay for decades?
Great news here:
$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School.
Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward.
I work at Einstein in the office of medical education. Dr Gottesman and her husband have always been generous benefactors but this? Blown away.
As an aside, I must have answered 50 calls today by 10am of folks wanting to “speak with Ms. Gottesman”. I work in space at the College she previously funded and is named after her I finally let all calls go right to voicemail and changed the voicemail greeting to basically say- she’s not here, never comes here and no I cannot transfer your call. Everyone else please leave a message.
In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family in Coronado, California, found themselves unable to rent a house amid racially restrictive housing laws that favored white buyers and renters.
Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple in town, allowed the family to rent and eventually buy their Coronado property when nobody else would. Now, to thank the Thompsons for helping them get a toehold in American society, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students using proceeds from the sale of the house.
“It may enable some kids to go and flourish in college that might not have been able to otherwise,” Janice Dong, 86, said about the plan to sell the family home they later purchased, as well as an adjacent property.
The Dong family will also work to have San Diego State University’s Black Resource Center named after Emma and Gus, who was born into slavery in Kentucky.
Lloyd Dong Jr., 81, said the Thompsons gave their family a start with the land, and it is time for them to do the same for others.
There are Good Samaritans and then there are Great Samaritans!
Watch the 2 videos down the article!!
A group of people were caught on camera jumping into action to free Sam Orbovich, 71, from his Honda SUV that was engulfed in flames on Interstate 94 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
It is incredibly heroic when people driving down the highway choose to put themselves at risk by running toward the flames to extract a stranger from a burning car that could explode at any moment.
So lucky that he fit through the window.
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Teacher promised his ninth-grade students they would reunite
