Center to
Sponsors
Programs
Art Blevins, the director of
Hanes Hosiery Recreation Center,
and Vincent Brown, his assistant,
are staying busy this summer with
structured athletic programs in
baseball and basketball.
According to Blevins, there are
173 kids involved in both summer .
programs.
Hanes Hosiery Recreation
Center will hold its seventh annual
"Hang The Net" and "Slam Dunk
Contest" and the "Celebrity
Shootout" and the "Former College
Stars" men's and women's shoot-out
July 22 at 2:30 p.m.
For more information, call Ah
Blevins at 727-2428.
- Art Blevins (left) and Vincent Brown
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center baseball league team (I to r.): (front row) Rod McKey, Coach
Tim McCollum , Donald Brooks , Tim DiUard and Leardo Davis; (back row) Coach James Irby , Brandon Cain ,
Anthony Johnson , Andre Chinn, Jmeil Hairston , Seneca Allen and Coach Doug Williams
Scholarship Dream Meets Inner-City Reality
Chicago businessmen Harrison
Steans and Burt Kaplan say they've
learned you can't always beat gangs
and drugs with the possibility of a
college degree.
Six years ago, the men told 83
students at the Byrd Academy and
Schneider Elementary School on
the city's North Side that they
would receive college scholarships
upon graduation from high school.
Twenty-nine took up the offer.
Steans said some students are
taking more than four years to grad
uate, and others are pursuing equiv
alency degrees.
"I was somewhat disappointed,
but this is something of a glass half
full or half-empty story," Steans
said last week. "There's a lot hap
pening where we're very encour
aged. I think more constructive
things are occurring."
Steans and Kaplan say they've
learned a lot from the experience
and can incorporate the lessons into
future programs.
"The sooner you can get
involved with kids the better/' said
S leans, who works at an investment
company and lives in north subur
ban Bannockburn. "There also
ought to be some way there is both
a commitment by the dreamer and
the dreamer's family.
"Just as we make a commit
ment to them, there should be com
mitment on their part. It's a two
way street"
During their involvement with
the students, Steans and Kaplan
realized money isn't the only
impediment standing between
inner-city youth and higher educa
tion.
The kids who didn't have any
fire in their belly at the start didn't
have any at the finish, and that's
kind of discouraging," said Kaplan,
a Highland Park resident who made
his fortune in the mattress business.
Gangs, sex and drugs didn't
catch up with all the students: Of
the 29 who graduated, 27 plan to
attend college in the fall. School
records show that only three or four
students out of a class of 40 normal
ly go on to college.
"Every day, it had an impact
even if I didn't know it," said
Tanikka Mitchell, 18, a Byrd Acad
emy student who graduated from
Lincoln Park High School and plans
to attend college in Oklahoma.
"They focused on keeping our
heads clear on homework and
school material."
Steans and Kaplan modeled
their program after the original "I
Have A Dream" project in New
York's East Harlem.
The New York program has
been copied across the country ?
involving 12,000 students in 53
cities. Steans and Kaplan have
helped other donors set up eight
more programs in the Chicago area.
The Hants Hosiery 10- to 12-year -
old baseball team, "Fun in the
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