Christmas (on Campus) in February
The spirit of giving isn’t just for December. At Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game, Stafford Jewelers presented one of those jumbo checks to the Dayton alumni chapter at center court. The big check was fun, but the real check will do some real good for struggling families in the Dayton area this coming Christmas.
This gift will be combined with other donations to help make Christmas a little merrier for students at the Dayton Early College Academy and their families. The school, housed in UD’s College Park Center and operated by Dayton Public Schools, is a nontraditional charter school focused on preparing first-generation urban students for college. Since the school’s launch 2003, all of its graduates have gone on to college (with help from the more than $7.6 million in scholarships and grants they’ve earned).
Accepting the check are, from left to right, Gloria Marano ’88, Aimee Kroll Forsythe ’99, Emily Griffin Bowman ’01 and Chris Bottomley ’99, with Stafford on the right. It’s fitting that it takes so many to hold the check, a sign that whether we can give $100, $2,500 or much more, all of us working together make an impact on our UD community and beyond.
