School before games (#90; Topic E)

While signing on to the computer and planning to do an entry, I tuned to CNN (as it turned out, one of my wife's cousins, Carol Lin, was at the anchor). What I heard was so heart-warming that I decided to do this as today's entry. Carol, after an introduction to this segment, was interviewing a youngster by phone. It seemed that, over a two-year period, Jonathan saved some $1,000 for the explicit purpose of visiting New York to see Yankess play. However, he decided to donate all his savings -- all his $1,000+ saved over a 2-year period -- to his school, as it was on the verge of bankruptcy. This was done over his mother's advice. (Altogether, the school raised over $400,000; it was saved.) Somehow, George S, Yankees' owner, heard it and sent Jonathan a letter, inviting him to visit Yankees this coming summer -- complete with VIP treatment, including a visit to the dugout and, perhaps, getting autographs from all these world-class major leaguers. What a story! Jonathan, thanks for doing this. George, thanks for your truly major-league response. And, Carol, thanks for bringing this beautiful story to the viewing public. It is truly beautiful; it certainly makes my day. To me, nothing is more important than giving top priority to learning, to education. Now, a youngster (judging from the school he attended, perhaps a pre-teen) is leading the way, showing us how to do it, even at the expense of forsaking a two-year-long dream of visiting the Yankess! What a young man!
Posted at 5:51 pm, Saturday, February 18, 2006