Robert Brown, a talented 6'5" guard scoring more then 21 points a game for Clermont East Ridge High School basketball team in Florida, decided to play his senior year at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, VA to become "a more complete player and more well-rounded person."
Brown, a Virginia Tech recruit as a junior, didn't want to just breeze through his last year at East Ridge High, "I didn't want to get complacent and just be OK with coasting through East Ridge. Being here made me correct bad habits, and work hard. I tell people I'll pretty much put up with whatever I have to do to get better, to be ready to play next year."
At the Academy, Brown spent two hours in mandatory study-hall sessions, went to bed at 10 p.m., and awoke very early so that he could be in formation at 6:05 a.m. to march to breakfast in full uniform. Not exactly the schedule most highly recruited high school basketball stars keep.
Here's to you Robert for not taking the easy way out and committing yourself to being a more complete player and person-stay positive, stay generous, and STAY COOL!
What do you think of Robert Brown's decision to leave Clermont East Ridge High School to play basketball at Hargrave Military Academy?
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
a COOL saint
St. Baldrick's foundation is "a volunteer driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives."
St. Baldrick's recently held an event in Reno, NV to honor a girl, Tracey Zamora, who lost her battle with brain cancer last year when she was only 12. Tracey was from Sparks, NV and the local firefighters went bald to help raise money for research for childhood cancer.
Sparks firefighter, Kevin Jakubos, who met Tracey through a community outreach program states, "I was with her through her journey of cancer. I never heard her complain. It was amazing to see that in a fifth-grader."
St. Baldricks, since it was founded on March 17, 2000, has funded more for children cancer research grants than every organization except the U.S. government. John Bender, Tim Kenny, and Enda McDonnell planned on raising "$17,000 on the 17th" when they decided to turn their company's St. Patrick's Day party into an event of head-shaving to raise money for kids with cancer. That day they ended up raising more than $104,000.
St. Baldrick's Day head shaving events have since expanded into every state and have surpassed the $90 million mark for cancer research. The events are held annually on St. Patrick's Day.
Here's to the the St. Baldrick's Foundation for raising so much money for a serious cause through such a fun event-stay positive, stay generous, and STAY COOL!
Please visit www.stbaldricks.org for more information, to donate, or to hold your own event.
What do you think of the St. Baldrick's Foundation and their efforts to raise money for children cancer research? Would you shave your head for charity?
St. Baldrick's recently held an event in Reno, NV to honor a girl, Tracey Zamora, who lost her battle with brain cancer last year when she was only 12. Tracey was from Sparks, NV and the local firefighters went bald to help raise money for research for childhood cancer.
Sparks firefighter, Kevin Jakubos, who met Tracey through a community outreach program states, "I was with her through her journey of cancer. I never heard her complain. It was amazing to see that in a fifth-grader."
St. Baldricks, since it was founded on March 17, 2000, has funded more for children cancer research grants than every organization except the U.S. government. John Bender, Tim Kenny, and Enda McDonnell planned on raising "$17,000 on the 17th" when they decided to turn their company's St. Patrick's Day party into an event of head-shaving to raise money for kids with cancer. That day they ended up raising more than $104,000.
St. Baldrick's Day head shaving events have since expanded into every state and have surpassed the $90 million mark for cancer research. The events are held annually on St. Patrick's Day.
Here's to the the St. Baldrick's Foundation for raising so much money for a serious cause through such a fun event-stay positive, stay generous, and STAY COOL!
Please visit www.stbaldricks.org for more information, to donate, or to hold your own event.
What do you think of the St. Baldrick's Foundation and their efforts to raise money for children cancer research? Would you shave your head for charity?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
a COOL ex-con
Mr. Earl Baldwin burst through a door and caught up to the man he was chasing and slammed him up against a chalkboard. The 25 people sitting quietly in the room, eight of them teenagers, looked on at the reality happening before them. The eight teenagers sat back in their chairs and knew all too well what it's like to be apprehended and handcuffed.
Earl Baldwin, an ex-con, was playing the role of a cop and attempting to make the play look as real as he could for the teenagers, adjudicated youth in CISP, Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Juvenile Court's Community Intensive Supervision Program.
Mr. Baldwin was released from prison a year ago, at the age of 41, after serving more than 18 years for burglary charges. He partnered with Cynthia Hopson-Smith and purchased the former Pittsburgh Headliners on East Ohio Street and changed the name to Hallelujah Anyhow!! Gospel Talk Barber Shop. He hired several men he met in barber training in prison and started mixing haircuts with social and spiritual outreach in the streets.
Mr. Baldwin's plays are geared to show young men that they have options available to them besides violence. The plays incorporate angry, frustrated, vulnerable characters in real life scenes that often play out before abuse and shootings happen. He expresses that unchecked anger is the nemesis of many dysfunctional families.
Today Mr. Baldwin is married and owns a business with the intention of opening another one, "I had a pop who didn't care about me. I was going to get in a bus in a space where they put luggage to get away," he hopes to provide hope to those in the same situation, "Nobody said, 'C'mon, Earl, this is the way.'"
Here's to you Mr. Earl Baldwin for not only turning your life around but for showing the youth of today that there are options besides violence-stay positive, stay generous, and STAY COOL!
What do you think of Mr. Baldwin and what he is doing with his life now?
Earl Baldwin, an ex-con, was playing the role of a cop and attempting to make the play look as real as he could for the teenagers, adjudicated youth in CISP, Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Juvenile Court's Community Intensive Supervision Program.
Mr. Baldwin was released from prison a year ago, at the age of 41, after serving more than 18 years for burglary charges. He partnered with Cynthia Hopson-Smith and purchased the former Pittsburgh Headliners on East Ohio Street and changed the name to Hallelujah Anyhow!! Gospel Talk Barber Shop. He hired several men he met in barber training in prison and started mixing haircuts with social and spiritual outreach in the streets.
Mr. Baldwin's plays are geared to show young men that they have options available to them besides violence. The plays incorporate angry, frustrated, vulnerable characters in real life scenes that often play out before abuse and shootings happen. He expresses that unchecked anger is the nemesis of many dysfunctional families.
Today Mr. Baldwin is married and owns a business with the intention of opening another one, "I had a pop who didn't care about me. I was going to get in a bus in a space where they put luggage to get away," he hopes to provide hope to those in the same situation, "Nobody said, 'C'mon, Earl, this is the way.'"
Here's to you Mr. Earl Baldwin for not only turning your life around but for showing the youth of today that there are options besides violence-stay positive, stay generous, and STAY COOL!
What do you think of Mr. Baldwin and what he is doing with his life now?
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