Steve, I spoke to the national alumni Association chapter president for Saint Ogg’s today. >> She told me that last month they raised more than $90,000 to help send some direct support to some of the staff here at Saint Ogg’s. And we also learned today that members of the alumni right
Here in Raleigh are working together to help provide some support to students and staff during this time. >> I graduated in 1959 when Dolores Rivas was deciding on a university going to an HBCU wasn’t just a preference. At the time that I went to school, that was the only choice.
>> She got a scholarship and earned her degree from Saint Augustine’s. She went on to serve in Wake County Schools as a teacher and principal for decades. >> It prepared me for a career, and it prepared me to have a what I call a rounded life. >> She now serves as president
For a local Saint Ogg’s alumni chapter. Still grateful 65 years later for her time there. >> It was like a second home. >> She’s not alone in that. >> Saint org was a place where everybody knew each other, you know, it was like family. >> Kenneth Martin graduated from Saint Augustine’s in 1985.
>> When I was there, it was Saint Augustine’s College. >> Saint August gave him everything he met his wife his second year of school. We got married and we’ve been married for 35 years, have three lovely kids and, uh, it gave me a degree. >> I can I can boast about my
Four year college degree. >> And there he joined Groove Phi Groove, a fraternity he’s active in to this day while they lead separate lives. When Dolores and Kenneth found out about Saint Augustine’s critical financial problems, they both had the same reaction. Jumping in to help Dolores alumni chapter raised $8,000 in just
Three weeks for the school. Kenneth providing support for the students through Groove Phi Groove, we found out that they were having some issues with just personal items like toiletry and personal items for the students, so we decided that we’re going to raise the money and we’re going to go buy these
Items for the students, both echoing the importance of keeping this historic university alive as it means so much to so many and provides much needed scholarships to students every year. >> If you take that away, you’re taking a lot away from, uh, like I said, kids that might not have
The opportunity to ever go to college. >> And Dolores told me today that she thinks keeping the university afloat should not just concern alumni. It should not just concern those involved with HBCUs. She hopes that ItrillionEALLY concerns everyone here in Raleigh with this university so deeply rooted in our community, making the impact
In the lives of so many different students, she hopes that even those
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