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103485SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
1/11/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
SUBJECT:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
1:35 PM
(1/11 - 4:45 PM draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
WINSTON
CICCONI
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 11, 1989
1990 JAN 11 PM 6: 59
4:45 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
1:35 P.M.
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter where I go,
or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be talked
about by a principal ]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
a few days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on MTV ]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record than ours are in Washington.. ]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
2
I'd like to recognize a very special person, who's brought
the CYC to life -- a local heroine -- Sister Jean Harrington.
And let me offer congratulations and best wishes to the man who's
taking over -- Mr. John Bryant.
You know, you've got something truly unique going on here.
On January 29, I understand that every television station in
Greater Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two
cable channels --- will be launching a two-hour program called a
Future-Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
Future-Thon is asking for something more precious than money.
It's asking people to volunteer their talents and their time to
be role models -- to help Cincinnati students get the future they
deserve. And the kids of Cincinnati deserve the best.
If you've ever thought school was a waste of time, you ought
to think about talking to one of the students in the CYC.
They'll tell you better than I can, what this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means classes for college
entrance exams, that have sent scores up by 25 percent. A new
child care center, opening next fall. And training in computers,
for every student who goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
3
You're gaining power. Purpose. A friendship you can count
on. And once you have that, you can never be stopped -- never
denied the potential that's yours, and the success that's waiting
for you.
Let me offer special thanks to those adults who are serving
as CYC mentors. Every adult in America can gain so much, by
developing a special relationship with a young person. When you
lift the spirits of the young, you raise their horizons to the
stars. You give them the promise of a future bright with
possibility.
I hope the adults here today are just the first of what will
soon be thousands like you, helping the young people of your
community.
One young woman here, Loretta Englemon, recently said, "I
know what I want out of life. I know where I'm going." Every
student here at Taft is at a point in life when there are a lot
of choices to be made. Important choices.
And if life is the sum of the choices you make, whatever
challenges you're facing, you understand that drugs only make
them harder to handle. You already know how drugs destroy lives
-- a few of you have seen it happen. Maybe you lost a friend.
or maybe you see or hear about drug dealers making big
money. But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No
security. And no retirement plan.
4
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
That's why I'm pleased to announce today that the Cincinnati
Youth Collaborative is the 40th White House daily "Point of
Light." On behalf of the nation, thank you for showing that from
now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
103485SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
1/11/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
SUBJECT:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
1:35 PM
(1/11 - 4:45 PM draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
WINSTON
CICCONI
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 11, 1989
1990 JAN 11 PM 6: 59
4:45 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
1:35 P.M.
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter where I go,
or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be talked
about by a principal
]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
a few days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on MTV...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record than ours are in Washington..
]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
2
I'd like to recognize a very special person, who's brought
the CYC to life -- a local heroine -- Sister Jean Harrington.
And let me offer congratulations and best wishes to the man who's
taking over -- Mr. John Bryant.
You know, you've got something truly unique going on here.
On January 29, I understand that every television station in
Greater Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two
cable channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a
Future-Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
Future-Thon is asking for something more precious than money.
It's asking people to volunteer their talents and their time to
be role models -- to help Cincinnati students get the future they
deserve. And the kids of Cincinnati deserve the best.
If you've ever thought school was a waste of time, you ought
to think about talking to one of the students in the CYC.
They'll tell you better than I can, what this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means classes for college
entrance exams, that have sent scores up by 25 percent. A new
child care center, opening next fall. And training in computers,
for every student who goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
3
You're gaining power. Purpose. A friendship you can count
on. And once you have that, you can never be stopped -- never
denied the potential that's yours, and the success that's waiting
for you.
Let me offer special thanks to those adults who are serving
as CYC mentors. Every adult in America can gain so much, by
developing a special relationship with a young person. When you
lift the spirits of the young, you raise their horizons to the
stars. You give them the promise of a future bright with
possibility.
I hope the adults here today are just the first of what will
soon be thousands like you, helping the young people of your
community.
One young woman here, Loretta Englemon, recently said, "I
know what I want out of life. I know where I'm going. " Every
student here at Taft is at a point in life when there are a lot
of choices to be made. Important choices.
And if life is the sum of the choices you make, whatever
challenges you're facing, you understand that drugs only make
them harder to handle. You already know how drugs destroy lives
-- a few of you have seen it happen. Maybe you lost a friend.
or maybe you see or hear about drug dealers making big
money. But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No
security. And no retirement plan.
4
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
That's why I'm pleased to announce today that the Cincinnati
Youth Collaborative is the 40th White House daily "Point of
Light. On behalf of the nation, thank you for showing that from
now on in America, any definition of a successful life must
include serving others.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
Document No. 103485SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 1/11/90
1/11/90 1:00 PM
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH N/C
BATES N/C
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON N/C
FITZWATER
BENNETT N/C
GRAY N/C
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 1:00 PM, TODAY January 11, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
1990 JAN 10 PM 9: 06
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal...
1]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington... ]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
Futurethon is
It's they' 11 be asking for something more precious than money. They
ing
will ask, people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve
And you deserve the best. a If you've ever thought school was
the Kids of Cincinnati
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle.
Because the best 1 antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
)
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
###
Document No. 103485SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
1/11/90
DATE:
1/11/90 1:00 PM
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 1:00 PM, TODAY January 11, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
No comments
15:60 21031.68
1/11
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date: 1/11/90
TO:
Chriss Winston
FROM:
CLARK KENT ERVIN
Office of National Service
3
x6266
Action
Your Comment
Let's Talk
FYI
Attached are are comments on the
Cincinnati prints flight
remule.
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
1990 JAN 10 PM 9: 06
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal. ]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington.. ]]
6
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
89 DEC 11 P1:45
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08 DEC II 61:12
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction.
positive caring
friendship
you're building a relationship
INSERT back A
int
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential That you can succeed.
1
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
whom
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
# # #
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youth "print Callaborative of why light is On behalf the of 40th the mhn White thank you fr a showing
that, From MN an in America, ay definction of
successful life ment include serring others.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 11, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR COMMUNICATIONS
FROM:
FREDERICK D. NELSON
K.B.G.F.D.
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
Counsel's Office makes no legal objection to the above-referenced
Presidential Remarks.
Thank you for the opportunity to review this matter.
39 DEC 11 P1:39
Document No. 103485SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
1/11/90
1/11/90 1:00 PM
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 1:00 PM, TODAY January 11, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
1990 JAN 10 PM 9: 06
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal
]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington.. ]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it. offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction.
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
# # #
Document No. 103485SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
1/11/90
1/11/90 1:00 PM
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 1:00 PM, TODAY January 11, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments
60:1d 1103068
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
1990 JAN 10 PM 9: 06
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal. ]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington... ]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction.
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
# # #
Document No. 103485SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 1/11/90
1/11/90 1:00 PM
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 1:00 PM, TODAY January 11, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
nocoment no 50
89 DEC II A9: 46
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
1990 JAN 10 PM 9: 06
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal
]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington.
1]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction.
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
###
Document No. 103485SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
1/11/90
1/11/90 1:00 PM
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 1:00 PM, TODAY January 11, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
89 DEC All : 55
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
1990 JAN 10 PM 9: 06
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal. ]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington.. 1]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
Futurethon IS asking
they 11 be asking for something more precious than money. They
this
It's
ins
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
the kids of Cencinnation
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction.
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
# # #
Document No. 103485SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 1/11/90
1/11/90 1:00 PM
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
PINKERTON
FITZWATER
BENNETT
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 1:00 PM, TODAY January 11, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
All attached
81 : 1 d 1103068
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
1990 JAN 10 PM 9: 06
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal
]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington
1]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
whether you ARe A PARTICIPANT in the Youth CollAboRATive PROgRAM OR NOT
V And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'l tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction.
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
# # #
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal
1]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv...]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington. ]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
can never be stopped -- never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction.
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
# # #
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
6:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
[[ Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
talked about by a principal
]]
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[ Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv ]]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a
surrounding community start striving for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington
]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
29, I understand that every television station in Greater
Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two cable
channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
computers, for every student that goes to Taft.
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills.
You're gaining power. Purpose. A sense of direction. And
once you have that, you can never be stopped -- never denied the
potential that's yours, and the success that's waiting for you.
You may even find that the problems you face get easier to
handle. Because the best antidote to drugs is a sense of
direction. The most effective contraceptive is a sense of
purpose And the best weapon against the crime on of city streets
is knowledge because knowledge empowers. It doesn't just
change the odds. It changes the rules of the game
Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan. B.T.
so
gains muchanors.
But an educated man or woman can make more money than anyone
with a gun. with just a pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn,
there are no limits to success. B.F.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
you Suita
that you have potential. That you can succeed. And that you
deserve to excel.
Sreat school in a wonder ful town in a the greatest
nation on enth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
###
(Lange/Cawley)
January 10, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[CINCINN.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
STUDENTS AT ROBERT A. TAFT HIGH SCHOOL
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1990
[TIME]
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[[
Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You know, no matter how where I
Mr Homer go, or how old I get, it still makes me a little nervous to be
Vice Prin of
Taft
talked about by a principal
]]
(513) 977- 8000
But thank you, Mr. Principal; Superintendent Powell; and all
of the students here today, for such a kind welcome.
[[
Most of all, I want to thank the band: I hear they only had
a
few
two days to learn how to play that Presidential tune. With
caps
talent like that, any day now I expect we'll see them on Mtv. - ] ]
It's great to be here. It's not often a President gets to
stand in a gymnasium full of success stories.
Taft High School and the city of Cincinnati are showing the
rest of the country what's possible, when students and people in
a community strive for excellence, together.
[[ And I don't just mean the Senators -- though your Senators
are racking up a better record on the basketball court than ours
are in Washington
]]
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in a great enterprise: the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds
brighter futures -- every day -- one student at a time.
Ozotzen sister Jean Hassington,
A local herr 1
whos Run the CYC
John Bryant taper our.
You've got something truly unique going on here. On January
John Brunner 29,
I understand that every television station in Greater
CYC Communicationsinnati
all six broadcasting companies and two cable
(513) 369.
channels will be launching a two-hour program called a Future-
Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati -- but
they'll be asking for something more precious than money. They
be rde medels
will ask people to volunteer their talents and their time to help
to set examples
Cincinnati students get the future they deserve.
And you deserve the best. If you've ever thought school was
a waste of time, you ought to think about talking to one of the
students in the CYC. They'll tell you better than I can, what
this program means.
John Brunner
It means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. It means skills you can count on, and take to
claimator college entrance exams, that have Bent sene
a job the day after you graduate. It means training in
up 25/perat.
IV Homer computers, for every student that goes to Taft. oping Brextitall.
vice Principal
of $ (513)977-8000 Taft
But it offers something even more important. Because with
every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every foretta student: English
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're gaining more than skills. d know what
I wantout of life.
You're gaining power. Purpose. And once you have that, you
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can never be stopped never denied the potential that's yours,
and the success that's waiting for you.
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direction.
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Maybe you see and hear about drug dealers making big money.
But in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. And
no retirement plan.
Sure, people have different ideas about success. Some think
its measured by what's parked in your driveway, or what's hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with finding your talents. Using them to
reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose. Working
to make a difference for yourself -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to success
is right under your hat. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, for what you're
doing here. You're proving to yourselves, and those around you,
that you have potential. That you can succeed.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Your dreams are within your reach. May every single one of
them come true. God bless you -- and God bless the United States
of America.
###
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Bush's Taft lunch to focus on money
Educators, awrer
PAGE.02
students will
ask for more
BY KELLY LEWIS
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Students and education leaders
will ask for more money when they
meet President Bush during his
visit Friday to Taft High School in
the West End.
For students such as 17-year-
OFC.
old Michael Blanchard, the amount
can be as small as the $61 he
needs to pay for an advanced place-
ment test that will let him skip
college freshman English in the
fall.
For leaders of the Cincinnati
Youth Collaborative, the sum
would surpass the $44 million go-
ing to Head Start youngsters in
Cincinnati Public Schools.
The federal Head Start program
for disadvantaged 4- and 5-year-
olds serves only 20% of the eligible
children, said City Councilman Pe-
ler Strauss, co-chairman of the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative.
The collaborative was started
by the city's business community
The Cincinnati Enquirer/Mary Annette Pember
to encourage students to complete
Maintenance worker Jim Stewart does some touch-up painting to the stage at Taft High School Wednesday, while
their education and to raise money
school music director David Fowler leads the senior choir in a rehearsal for President Bush's visit.
to help them.
"I want to ask (the president)
about all of the defense spending
and then education spending,
President to see reform firsthand
Blanchard said. "Is it necessary to
invest so much in Eastern Europe
11
when communism's grip is loosen-
BY KRISTA RAMSEY
Bush will visit one such program when
administration's education policy.
ing?"
The Cincinnati Enquirer
he stops by Taft during a day in Cincin-
Blanchard and nine other stu-
nati that also includes an address to the
But early indications are the report,
When George Bush visits Taft High
dents will have a chance to quiz the
Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Com-
due in February, will be more general
School on Friday, he will be completing
president during lunch. They
merce.
than expected; more overarching objec-
homework on one of his own assign-
tives than the detailed blueprint for im-
agreed the cost of testing is their
ments.
At Taft, Bush will be briefed on men-
provement Bush promised.
biggest issue.
toring, work-study and scholarship pro-
The inability to afford advanced
The assignment came last September
grams of the Cincinnati Youth Collabora-
A handful of very general goals has
placement tests defeats the pur-
when Bush called a national summit on
tive and will chat with students enrolled
been developed, said Gloria Cabe, an
pose of accelerated classes in high
education to set specific goals for improv-
in those programs at Taft.
assistant to Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton,
ing the nation's schools.
co-chairman of the National Governors
(Please see VISIT,
The visit comes as Bush awaits a
back page, this section)
There, Bush challenged governors and
report from summit leaders setting first-
Association task force charged with defin-
education leaders to focus on outcomes
ever national goals for schools. The es-
ing those goals.
Collaborative's volunteers,
rather than rules and regulations and to
tablishment of specific standards is
(Please see BUSH,
Page B-1.
scout out programs that work.
viewed as a cornerstone of the Bush
back page, this section)
Energetic Sister Jean:
It's time to move on
The Pist
hand, Sister
By Michael D. Clark
1/10/40
Jean is leav-
Post staff reporter
ing a nation-
Anyone who knows the
ally recog-
out-going leader of the Cincin-
nized busi-
nati Youth Collaborative
ness/educa-
knows better than to say she
tion coalition
is retiring.
just as it's be-
When Sister Jean Patrice
coming a role
Harrington, executive director
Sister Jean
model for
of the Youth Collaborative,
Harrington
overcoming
left her previous post as presi-
education problems.
dent of the College of Mount
"The president's visit is a
St. Joseph in 1987, she called
wonderful endorsement" of
it "rephasing." She then took
the Collaborative's programs,
the helm of the newly formed
she said. Nevertheless, she
Youth Collaborative to be.
feels the time is right to move
come its first executive direc-
on.
tor. Last week she announced
that she would be relinquish-
"There needs to be a rota-
ing that role on July 1.
tion of leadership," Sister
Jean said. "Any organization
The 67-year-old Sister Jean
that is growing and develop-
is again calling her latest ca-
ing should have a leadership
reer move a "rephasing."
style for only a while.
"I'm not retired and I
"Besides," she adds, "I'm
won't be idle," she said,
not as young as I used to be."
Few would disagree. In De-
cember she was elected as a
Sister Jean gives credit for
director of Star Banc Corp.
the Collaborative's success to
and named to the Miami Uni-
current co-chairs Dr. Lee Etta
versity Board of Trustees.
Powell, superintendent of Cin-
With President George Bush's
cinnati Public Schools;
upcoming visit to see the Col.
Procter & Gamble Co. presi.
laborative's programs first-
dent John Pepper and Cincin-
nati City Council Member
Peter Strauss.
Senior gives lessons in college life
Pritchett
Enquired
CONTINUED FROM PAGE B-1
college senior at the College of Mount
black and female role model for
hile 17-year-old
St. Joseph.
more realistic expectations.
Pritchett.
W
Trudy Pritchett
"I talk to Trudy about college all the
"I know it will be tough. That
As such, Barnett often answers
dreams of college
time - I've got this report. Oh, how
I'll have to study longer hours, I'll
questions the teen-ager might not
this fall, Althea
will I ever get all this done?" Barnett
have to work hard, there will be
feel comfortable asking.
Barnett sets her
says, grinning at Pritchett, an Aiken
lots of competition.'
During campus visits, Pritchett
straight on the
High School senior. "She's pretty good
The two have scouted college
asks about minority enrollment and
ealities of college life.
- she didn't even ask me how my
campuses together, sought out
what organizations and activities
Admissions hassles, a blizzard of
grades were last semester."
financial help, compared course
exist for black students.
ssignments, the pinch of college costs.
For Pritchett - who will be the
offerings - all things, Pritchett
"A: Miami University," Barnett
Barnett, who became Pritchett's
first member of her immediate family
says, "my parents wouldn't feel
points out, "we drove by and
ientor this fall, speaks not only from
to graduate from college - the
real comfortable doing."
pointed out the black students."
aily experience as an admissions
partnership has meant
"We check out the colleges first
Both say, once Pritchett is
bunselor at Cincinnati Technical
SO then Trudy can take her
safely entrenched in college, the
(Please see PRITCHETT,
ollege, but from her double life as a
parents," Barnett agrees.
lunches, calls and mutual support
Page B-11)
Barnett, the natural mother of
will continue.
two children and foster mother of
"I'll keep up with Trudy for the
three others, finds time for weekly
rest of her life," Barnett says in a
calls or visits with her protege
tone
Common goals
half-promising,
because, she says simply, she is
half-challenging. "She's marked for
especially conscious of being both a
life."
help mentor,
Larkin
student connect
CONTINUED FROM PAGE B-1
his protege.
For Oya, the partnership has
Well, mostly.
lerrell Larkin, 16, favors
provided a new perspective on
T
the hometown Reds and
teen-agers - people the bachelor
"I'd like to see him graduate
the Bengals. Ken Oya, 31,
rarely encounters - and enough
from college, get some good job
prefers the Los Angeles
expertise on the fine points of
offers and find a career he's
Raiders and Dodgers.
college entry and financing to
enthusiastic about entering.
Larkin listens to rap,
share' tips with P&G colleagues
who are sending children off to
"And I'd like to see him become
looks on Oya's suggestion of attending
college.
a Dodgers fan."
an opera with disdain and, according to
Only on the final point, Oya
Oya, "refuses to do the ballet."
As Larkin nears his senior year
But there are areas in which Larkin,
at Woodward and the final stretch
concedes, "I think he's hopeless."
to college, Oya has high hopes for
a Woodward High School junior, and
Oya, a purchasing manager for Procter
& Gamble, have reached agreement.
Foremost among them is a joint
commitment that Larkin will be well
prepared for college.
Now three years after pairing up
with Oya as a mentor, Larkin admits to
some initial doubts. "I wasn't so sure
I usually never needed advice
before."
But as school work intensified and
the gauntlet of college entry loomed,
Larkin came to rely on Oya for advice
and support.
Working partnership
Several times each month the two
review Larkin's homework, prep for
college boards and, most distasteful to
Larkin, hunker down over sample
college applications 60 Larkin can try
his hand at entrance essays.
Through shared lunches and
dinners, trips to exhibits at the art
muscum and a screening of Batman,
the two have formed a working
partnership - and a friendship.
"I think of him as an adult friend I
can go to for advice," says Larkin.
(Please see LARKIN, Page B-11)
The Cincinnati Enquirer/Mary Annette Permer
Terrell Larkin. 16, above, of Woodward High School and his mentor, Ken Oya, talk about the merits of rap music and other. more serious, issues as well.
The
Engwer HELPING HANDS
1/11/90
Relationship
The Cincinnati Youth
Roy says she likes having an adult
Collaborative's mentoring
friend. Barlow, whose work at
program pairs 300 students
Strottman International includes
lays foundation
with adult volunteers in the
designing kids' meals for fast-food
for future support
community to provide young
restaurants and choosing the prizes to
put in cereal boxes, bounces ideas off
people with an extra source of
her young friend.
guidance on school-related
Roy's suggestion: "Put little tiny
or Michelie Barlow. who
achievement and career goals.
stuffed animals inside the cereal
F
spends her days as regional
Procter & Gamble president
boxes," she says decisively. "Kids
manager at & local
John Pepper, who himself
would really like them."
marketing company,
works with two students, calls
For now, when childhood issues are
becoming a mentor meant
not SQ serious and pressures are few.
"the chance to picture the
mentors, "People who believe
world through a sixth-grader's mind."
in you sometimes more than
the relationship centers more on
So far, her relationship with
you believe in yourself."
shared fun than on heavy-duty
direction. Barlow hopes a close
12-year-old Cathy Roy of Price Hill has
It is this program, and a
relationship now will build support for
meant visits to each other's homes, an
number of its participants, that
Roy when more complex issues arise
introduction to family and pets and mall
President George Bush will
later.
trips to "scope out boys."
Plenty of time in the future, the two
observe as part of his visit to
say, to talk of colleges and school.
Cincinnati on Friday.
"We've talked about a survey Cathy
Enquirer education writer
did at school of her future plans, going
Krista Ramsey profiles three of
to high school and college, and I'd love
the mentor pairings.
to encourage her to pursue that."
Barlow says. "But in sixth grade, you
face different issues - being taller
than boys. family hassles.
"Ours 13 not really a school-oriented
Cathy Roy, 12, of Price Hill and her
relationship."
mentor Michelle Barlow.
Taft
President William Howard Taff
of Ohio.
From Page 1C
The dropout rate is high. The
teen-age pregnancy rate is high.
mandatory course of study for
The low attendance rate
accelerated students in the
continues to defy solution. But a
junior and senior years.
child-care center, which could
Computer literacy and study
improve all three of those
skills courses are mandatory for
problems somewhat, is expected
all freshmen.
to begin operating by the fall.
This year, for the first time,
School officials hope other
Taft is offering a Saturday class
programs will keep the trend
to prepare its students to take
inching upward. Henderson and
college entrance examinations.
the chairpersons of all of the
The examination scores of the
academic departments at Taft
nearly 30 students who took that
will soon attend a four-day
Saturday class were 25 percent
Florida seminar on site-based
higher than usual.
management. The management
Until three years ago, Ms.
technique, according to math
Rhodes said, Taft lacked the
department chairman Earl
courses for the better students
Messer, would give Taft's
and lost many of them to
administrators some autonomy
Western Hills High School
from the school system's central
under the open-enrollment
administration.
program.
One of Taft's major problems
Taft was the first school to be
has always been apathy among
involved with the Cincinnati
the students' parents. They have
Youth Collaborative, and it now
lived in the same poor
provides mentors and tutors for
neighborhoods for generations; a
students and helps seniors who
glimmer of hope is hard to
have not been able to obtain
kindle.
grants or other financing for
college, Henderson said.
Taft's faculty began a
parent-involvement program
The collaborative provides
with a Dec. 5 meeting.
funds to hire teachers as
Encouragingly, about 200
department heads at Taft and
parents attended, said Taft
has helped improve counseling
Community Coordinator Tara
services by providing money to
Harris.
hire an additional counselor and
a counselor aide.
The first meeting was to
define the obstacles to parental
"The school was thought to
involvement, she said. A second
be less than serious. It was
meeting Jan. 16 will try to find
abandoned academically," she
some solutions and ways to
said.
implement them.
"There's always been a strong
"We feel that for the students
core of faculty at Taft that
to perform to the best of their
struggled to make the school
work," Ms. Rhodes: said. "Taft
ability, they have to have the
has always produced a core of
support of their parents," Ms.
Harris said.
kids who went on to college."
However, only about 40
Friday, President Bush will
percent of Taft's students go on
learn about another promising
to four-year or two-year colleges
program at Taft. It's called Excel
or to post-high school vocational
Mentor and it operates similarly
training, Henderson said, That's
to Big Brothers and Big Sisters.
less than half of the rate at many
Adult volunteers are assigned to
other high schools such as
individual students to help them
prestigious Walnut Hills.
in a variety of ways, including
tutoring and field trips.
Taft serves five of Cincinnati's
poorest neighborhoods -
The goal is to help the student
Over-the-Rhine, the West End,
improve attendance, attitude
Lower Price Hill, Sedamsville
and achievement, Ms. Harris
and East Price Hill.
said. The program began in
The low-income housing
September 1988, she said, and
there were 22 mentor volunteers
projects of Laurel Homes,
Lincoln Courts and Richmond
that first year. This year, there
are 65.
Village surround the 44-year-old
school named after Robert A.
President Bush will meet with
Taft, a U.S. senator from Ohio
10 mentors and their students
from 1939 to 1953 and the son of
during his visit to Taft.
Once thought
"less than serious,"
Taft High
Friday will show
President Bush
a record of
academic success
MEL GRIER/The Cincinnati Post
A
Taft High When President Bush visits Taft on Friday, he'll find examples of academic success.
school that works
By Al Andry
Pot 1/10/90
The collaborative provides funds to hire teachers
Post staff reporter
BS department heads at Taft and has helped improve
Taft High facts
Student Loretta Englemon gets angry when people
counseling services by providing money to hire an
say bad hings about Taft High School in Cincinnati's
additional counselor and A counselor aide.
West End.
Motivated students such as Ms. Englemon are
Taft High School: 420 Lincoln Park
"I know what I want out of life. I know where I'm
becoming more common at Taft. Ms. Englemon is a
Drive, West End.
going." Ms. Englemon, 18,
senior and plans to major in
Principal: Orlando Henderson
said.
mathematics and secondary
Construction was completed in 1955;
"Some people think that
education at the University of
the school opened in September of that
people walk around here with
Kentucky.
year with 1,219 students.
runs and knives and want to
She is in the advanced
Named after Robert A. Taft, a U.S.
light.
academic program at Taft and
senator from Ohio from 1939 to 1953 and
"I work harder to prove'
has a 3.1 out of 8 possible
the son of President William Howard Taft.
them wrong."
4-point grade average.
X Student body: 975 students in
When President Bush visits
"We're beginning to see 8
1989-90. Of those, 771) or 79 percent,
Taft on Friday, he will be
change for the better," said
talking to students like Ms.
are black; 204. or 21 percent, are White:
Principal Orlando Henderson.
Englemon - examples of aca.
485 are male and 490 are female.
"Over the past three years
lemic success at an inner city
a. The school has 109 staff members,
school.
there has been a process of
including 94 classroom teachers.
rebuilding Taft by improving
They represent a three-
the core curriculum, the tough
Student-teacher ratio is 13.6 to 1.
year-old tenuous but promis-
Community coordinator Tara Harris, left, talks
academic courses," said
Thirty-three percent of Its graduates
ng trend of improvement in
with Jeson Thomas and Vickle Williams.
Cincinnati Board of Education
in 1989 went on to four-year colleges.
Taft's dismal academic record.
member Virginia Rhodes.
E The dropout rate in the 1988-89
The trend has its origins in the backing of the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, an organization
Those courses include subjects that are
school year was 19.1 percent.
supported by the school district, businesses and city
indispensable for college-bound students, such as
, The average attendance rate that
administrators that provides support services for Taft
calculus and foreign languages. Latin is how a
year was 76.7 percent.
is well as for all schools in the district
Please see TAFT 7C
Collaborative takes a bow
Bush visit to keep
The Collaborative, formed in 1987. tied
these diverse interests together to try to be.
gin to solve some of Cincinnati Public
Getting ready for Bush
program in spotlight
Schools' more pressing problems. Like most
urban school systems, Cincinnati's schools
When President Bush
suffer from a high dropout rate, stagnant
By Michael D. Clark
Post staff reporter
1/10/90
academic achievement scores, low atten-
visits Cincinnati on
dance and limited resources.
Friday he the taking a
Though only two years old, the growing
close look et two local
reputation of the Cincinnati Youth Collabo-
In response, the Collaborative developed a
education standouts:
"mission":
rative should take a quantum leap after Pres.
ident George Bush's visit here Friday.
Reduce the number of dropouts.
The Cincinnes
Yourn Collaborative
The self-proclaimed "education" president
Increase the number of pupils involved
inside, profiles of
has singled out the Cincinnati Youth Collab-
in
early childhood education programs.
Sister Jean Patrice
orative as an example of what's right with
Improve the overall academic perfor-
Hamington, the
the often-maligned American public educa-
mance of students.
out-going leader of the
President Bush
tion system.
Increase the number of students pursu-
collaborative, and of Its
But the Collaborative already enjoyed a
ing post-secondary education.
new head John Bryant. Plus, a look at the
glowing national reputation before it caught
Increase the number of youths entering
collaborabve's work: Our report, Page 4A
Bush's eye.
the job market with employable skills.
Last October, the National Alliance of
"It's a good model," Marilyn Silver, NAB
R Teft High School: What mekes it 80
Business, a non-profit organization whose
vice president for Youth and Education said
special? Among other things innovative
members include Fortune 500 companies, de-
Please see BUSH, 4A
programs that represent academic success
cried the general state of education in Ameri-
innencity school A profile Page 16
ca but pruised the Collaborative.
1C / Taft High awaits visit,
Bush 1/10/90
From Page 1A
The Post
The programs
of the Collaborative. "The Col-
The Cincinnati Youth Col-
McKinley elementaries,
laborative has done one of the
laborative stated "vision"
best jobs in the country in put-
a Bridges To College In
ting together a broad-based CO-
calls for 'all Cincinnali youth
creases the number of stu-
alition of businesses, education,
to graduate from high school
dents
considering
community, government and po-
with the training, knowledge
post-secondary education and
litical groups."
work habits and motivation to
provides, financial aid and
The Collaborative's first exec-
realize their foir potential
counseling to college appli-
utive director said the project's
whether they are entering the
cants.
mission came from "three
workplace In A productive and
& Bridges To Jobs. Informs
streams of thought coming to-
satisfying ob or going on to
gether at the same time."
students about jobs, prepares
college
them to meet employer expec-
Sister Jean Patrice Harring
To that end the collabora
ton said it was the 1987 union of
tations through improving job
Procter & Gamble Co. President
tive sponsors E number of pro-
skills and helps them seek en-
John Pepper; Cincinnati School
grams in and outside of the
try level positions
Superintendent Dr. Lee Etta
Cincinnati Public School dia
as College Information Center
Powell and then-Cincinnati City
trict:
Located in the downtown Laz
Council Member J. Kenneth
0 Taff District Project Focus
arus store and staffed by vol-
Blackwell that led to the Collab-
orative's creation.
es on inner-city low-income
unteers
who
help
neighborhoods with high
college-bound students prop-
"We recognized that the
drop-out rates. Activities in
enly apply to attend post-sec-
school system is not solely re-
sponsible for educating our
clude school based manage-
ondary schools,
youth. There are a lot of other
ment community support
Mentors and Tutore: Quali-
factors," said Sister Jean. "We
programs, new curriculum and
fled adult volunteers work with
have to attack the problems on
special enrichment programs
students on solving academic
many fronts."
Pilot Preschools in Taft and
and personal problems
The Collaborative's arsenal in.
cludes numerous programs and
millions of dollars of contribu-
tions from local corporations,
participants of the Collabora-
Ms. Harris said the Tutors
foundations and individuals, Sis-
tive's Mentors and Tutors pro-
program involves pairing an
ter Jean said that about $5 mil-
gram during his Visit to Taft
adult volunteer with two or
lion has been raised this year,
High School in the West End
three students who work on a
much of it the old-fashioned
Friday. The programs match
particular academic subject.
way.
adult volunteers with students
"We pound the payment and
who need help with academic
ask for money," she said.
and personal problems.
The Mentors program, said
Collaborative officials say the
Tara Harris, school communi-
Ms. Harris, is similar to Big
program Is still in its infancy
ty coordinator, runs the Mentors
Brother and Sister programs
where an adult becomes in-
and cumulative figures on gradu-
and Tutors programs for Taft
volved in both the academic and
ates and jobs were unavailable
and said more than 65 adults put
Tuesday.
personal lives of students to
in three to four hours a week
help the student reach their
Bush is expected to meet with
with students in both programs.
fullest potential."
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Bush
Enganes
CONTINUED FROM PAGE A-1
but experts across the country all
Specific criteria for measuring
say that the test we currently use
failure or success will come much
to measure such achievement is
later, said Cabe, an Arkansas state
not a good test."
legislator and Clinton's special ad-
Overall, Cabe said, the goals
viser on education.
released in February, though
"One likely goal, for example,
scaled down, will mirror objectives
will reflect the need to get all
set earlier by Bush and discussed
children in the country ready to
at the summit.
start school," Cabe said. Sugges-
In addition to increased global
tions on which areas or skills will
competitiveness in math and sci-
define that readiness will come
ence, they include:
Visit
later.
Increased school readiness
Specific measures of progress
among young children. Bush has
that show whether schools and
CONTINUED FROM PAGE A-1
state departments of education are
specifically asked for expansion of
federal Head Start programs.
school, said 15-year-old Victoria
progressing on those goals will
Williams, a ninth-grader.
come even later - probably at the
Increased literacy among
National Governors Association's
adult Americans.
Tenth-grader Rosetta Williams,
meeting in July, Bush called for
Upgrading teacher develop-
16, said, want to hear how he is
such a national report card on
ment programs, including rewards
going to a ccomplish all of the
educational improvement at the
for success with students and "real
changes in education, or if he's just
September summit.
consequences" for failure.
been talking about it."
A reduction in dropout rates.
Christy Thompson, 18, is going
Poor-quality tests
A reduction in violence and
to lobby the president for Upward
In areas like student achieve-
drug use within schools.
Bound, a summer program that has
ment, Cabe said she foresees annu-
While participants left no clear
given her the incentive to pursue a
al numeric goals for achievement
plan for achieving such goals dur-
college education.
on performance tests. Each year,
ing the summit, they did give offi-
"We stay on campus and take
states would be challenged to raise
cial blessing to several new ap-
classes at the University of Cincin-
their scores by a given percentage.
proaches, including plans that
nati. It's just like being in college,
Cabe said one reason for the
allow parents and students to pick
and it's giving me a head start,"
delay in arriving at more specific
a school, reorganization of schools
said Thompson, a senior.
criteria is the poor quality of stan-
to put more authority in the hands
dardized tests in use.
of principals and teachers and pro-
Before Bush meets with the
"Everyone agrees that our stu-
grams that get parents and corpo-
students, he will spend time with
dents have to be able to compete
rate leaders involved in school im-
represent itives of the Cincinnati
internationally in math and science,
provement.
Youth o laborative; Virginia Grif-
fin, scho ,1 board president; and
Sister Kathryn Connelly, superin-
tendent O. schools for the Archdio-
cese of Cincinnati.
Officials quiet on security
BY FREDERICK BERMUDEZ
After lunch, Bush will address a
2:15 p.m.: Private meet-
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Taft student assembly before mov-
ing with business leaders.
ing on to a speech before the
Local and federal authorities
2:40 p.m.: Speech to the
Greater. Cincinnati Chamber of
are keeping a tight lid on secu-
Chamber of Commerce at the
Commer e downtown.
rity and emergency procedures
Hyatt Regency.
planned for President Bush's
The president is scheduled
visit to Cincinnati Friday.
Bush will be in Cincinnati to
to leave Cincinnati at 3:50 p.m.
address Taft High School stu-
The Secret Service will be
dents and the Greater Cincin-
aided by the Cincinnati Police
nati Chamber of Commerce.
Division and the Hamilton
His visit is not expected to
County Sheriff's Department.
last more than four hours.
Neither agency would disclose
The tentative itinerary in-
how many officers will be in-
cludes:
volved in providing security for
12:30 p.m.: Lunch with
Bush.
Taft High School students who
Rich Elkowitz, Secret Serv-
participate in the Cincinnati
ice special agent in charge in
Youth Collaborative education
Cincinnati, said "a minimal
program.
number of streets will close
1:40 p.m.: Speech to
down" to allow Bush's motor-
Taft students and faculty.
cade to pass.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
For Immediate Release
January 12, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO TAFT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ASSEMBLY
Auditorium
Robert A. Taft High School
Cincinnati, Ohio
1:25 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you all very, very
much. (Applause.) Please, be seated. Thank you, Mr. Henderson. You
know, no matter where I go or how old I get it still makes me a
little nervous to be talked about by a principal. (Laughter.) But
thank you, sir. And thank you, Superintendent Powell, and all of the
students here today for such a kind welcome. I'm sorry I didn't --
as a ball fan, I'm sorry I didn't hear Tommy speaking and all. But I
understand he did a first-class job. May his won and loss record go
just up -- ERA and all of that. But good luck to you and thanks very
much for being here. I want to particularly salute your two
Congressmen -- Congressmen Luken and Congressman Gradison. Where are
they? Here they are modestly standing in the back. (Applause.) I
mentioned Superintendent Powell. Most of all, I want to thank the
band. You know, I hear -- (applause) -- they had only a few days to
practice that "Hail to the Chief." With talent like that, I expect
to see them on MTV any day now. (Laughter.)
It is great to be here. It's not often, frankly, that a
President gets to stand in a gymnasium literally full of success
stories. And Taft High School and the City of Cincinnati are showing
the rest of the country what's possible when students and people in a
community strive for excellence, but doing it together. And I don't
mean just the Senators, though your Senators are racking up a better
record than ours back in Washington, I might add. (Laughter.)
You've got students, parents, schools, business and
religious groups, all united in one great enterprise: the Cincinnati
Youth Collaborative. It's a partnership that builds brighter futures
every day -- one kid at a time.
I'd like to recognize a very special person who's brought
this concept -- this whole CYC -- brought it to life -- a local
heroine -- Sister Jean Harrington. And let me offer congratulations
to her and best wishes to the man who's taking over -- Mr. John
Bryant. (Applause.)
You know, you may not know this as a part of it because
you're so close to everything, but you've got something truly unique
going on here. On January 29th, I understand that every television
state in Greater Cincinnati -- all six broadcasting companies and two
cable channels -- will be launching a two-hour program called a
Future-Thon.
It's like a telethon for the schools of Cincinnati - but
Future-Thon is asking for something even more precious than money.
It's asking people to volunteer their talents and their time to be
role models -- to help Cincinnati students get the future they
deserve. And the kids of Cincinnati deserve the very best.
If you've ever thought that school was a waste of time,
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then you ought to think about talking to one of the students in the
CYC. They 11 tell you better than I can what this program means. It
means scholarships that add up to more than a quarter of a million
dollars. It means skills that you can count on -- take a job the day
after you graduate. It means classes for college entrance exams that
have sent scores soaring up by 25 percent. A new child care center,
opening next fall. And training in computers for every student who
goes to Taft. Here is an example for the entire nation.
But it offers something even more important. Because
with every friendship you build with a CYC mentor -- and with every
hour you spend with a tutor -- you're getting something more than
skills.
You're gaining power, purpose, a friendship you can count
on. Somebody to lift you up when you're a little bit down. And once
you have that, you can never be stopped -- never denied the potential
that's yours and the success that's waiting for you.
Let me offer special thanks to those adults who are
giving of themselves, who are serving as CYC mentors. Every adult in
America can gain so much, by developing a special relationship with a
young person. When you lift the spirits of the young, you raise
their horizons to the stars. You give them the promise of a future
bright with possibility.
I hope the adults here today are just the first of what
will soon be thousands like you, helping the young people of your
community.
One young woman, Loretta Englemon, recently said, "I know
what I want out of life and I know where I'm going." Every student
here at Taft is at a point in life when there are a lot of choices to
be made. Important choices.
And if life is the sum of the choices you make, whatever
challenges you're facing, you understand that drugs only make them
harder to handle. You already know how drugs destroy lives -- and a
few of you have seen it happen. Maybe you lost a good friend. Or
maybe you see or hear about drug dealers making that big dough. But
in the drug trade there are no benefits. No security. No retirement
plan.
And sure, people have different ideas about success.
Some think it's measured by what's parked in your driveway or hanging
in your closet. But real success is something else.
An educated man or woman gains so much more. With just a
pen or a pencil, and a desire to learn, there are no limits to
success.
Maybe it has to do with the finding of one's own talents.
Using them to reach your fullest potential, whatever path you choose.
Working to make a difference for youreslf -- and those around you.
If you stay in school, you'll find that the key to
success is right next to you. And if you keep struggling to live up
to your own expectations, you'll find the strength to succeed right
deep in your heart.
So let me congratulate every one of you, I hope by coming
here I highlight the magnificent spirit that I see here.
Congratulations for what you're doing. You're proving to yourselves
and those around you that you have potential; that you are someone;
that you can succeed.
That's why I'm pleased to announce today that the
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative is the 40th White House Daily "Point
of Light." On behalf of the nation, thank you for showing that from
now on in America, any definition of a successful life must include
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serving others.
You go to a great school -- in a wonderful town -- in the
greatest nation on the face of the Earth. Your dreams are within
your reach. And SO may every single one of them come true.
It's been a wonderful experience here for me today. And
I feel motivated. I feel I understand a little bit better what one
person can do in helping another. It's been well worth it, I'll tell
you.
Thank you. God bless you and God bless the United States
of America. (Applause.) Thank you very, very much. Thank you all.
(Applause.) Thank you all. Good luck to you.
END
1:38 P.M. EST
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
For Immediate Release
January 12, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
DURING DISCUSSION
WITH CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
MENTOR GROUP
Library
Robert A. Taft High School
Cincinnati, Ohio
12:52 P.M. EST
SISTER JEAN HARRINGTON: I have told the President that
he has a very unique group of people sitting in front of him. He has
10 Taft High School students with their mentors or their tutors. Two
college students who are in college as a result of our Last Resort
Scholarships, and a student from Porter Middle School and one from
Bloom Middle School, and a teacher from Bloom Middle School who has
coordinated the Earn and Learn Program. And I know the President's
eager to hear about your experiences, and I imagine you're eager to
hear about some of the things he does, too. So it's open.
THE PRESIDENT: When you do say -- either ask a question
or tell me what you're doing, which I hope you'll do, just say what
-- where you are in life and what your -- what school you're in --
college or mentoring or whatever -- it would be helpful. And I think
everybody here would be interested.
We've had a good briefing on this unique program. I keep
talking about something called "A Thousand Points of Light." At
first, we had one guy who said, "Did he say 'A Thousand Pints of
Light'?" (Laughter.) And I said, "No, it's A Thousand Points of
Light." And that really means involvement of one person in the lives
of others, helping. Then I come out here today and have had this
wonderful briefing on how this program, in many ways, is just the
epitome of A Thousand Points of Light -- a lot of people helping kids
get going or stay involved, or pull themselves up.
And so I don't know who wants to be first, but I'd be
glad to answer any questions. I see somebody nicely put a picture of
Barbara up there, and she is -- (laughter) -- she is very active in
education. Because I'll tell you what -- for you kids -- you old
kids, even -- (laughter) -- Ed, sorry about that -- no, but her thing
is literacy. And she's been involved in it for a long time, and I
understand, of course, that --- obviously, much of this program, as it
starts with these young kids, let's have everbody be literate. But I
wish she were here, because the Sister had asked about her very
generously.
Yes, sir?
Q Mr. President, I'm a mentor here at Taft High
School. The question I have is a very difficult one. And it has
been my perception in working with the young people that there is a
sense of hopelessness to the degree that it almost stunts the
importance of the programs that we have. If they perceive that, in
the community at large, no one really cares -- and if I do my best,
if there's a legitimate opportunity.
My question is, what do you feel a U.S. President and
administration can do to help create a more hopeful attitude or
atmosphere or environment for our young people and those that are --
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THE PRESIDENT: It is a tough question. But you know,
the more I think of it -- and you're the experts, you're the guys
with your sleeves rolled up and you're the ones that are trying to
learn -- and that -- being right there in the front line, I would
have to concede, gives you perhaps a better insight of this than I
have being back there in the White House.
But as I look at it, a lot of it is family. A lot of it
has got to be our, in some way, encouraging the strength of a family.
And this is an awfully philosophical answer to a rather specific
question. But I happen to think that some of the despair and some of
the discouragement comes from the dissolution or the strains on the
American family. Now, there are some answers to that, obviously. If
we are successful in working with the local communities in the
anti-narcotics battle, I think that'll help enormously. If programs
like this are successful -- and this is why this whole subject of
education is priority if programs like this are successful, I
think through education itself kids will begin to get hope and see
that in -- comparatively, as you look around the world, we're pretty
well off -- even those who are not doing very well.
So it's -- I guess what I can do about it is to
encourage what I think of as fundamental values. I happen to be one
who has learned in one short year that faith is important. And I
have a philosophy, Ed, of what happened -- a theory.
We came out of the Vietnam war; it was very divisive.
We had that post-Watergate period that increased a certain national
cynicism, it seemed to me. And that spills off on young people --
maybe on their teachers. So we're now coming into a new period. We
look around the world and we see the darndest, most dramatic changes
moving towards the values that have made this country the greatest:
freedom, democracy, choice to do things.
So I think we can now, with programs like you're engaged
in, point to people coming our way around the world because they see
we do have something very special. I'm not sure that's a totally
satisfactory answer, but I get back to fundamentals -- to values.
We're trying in the education field to stress certain fundamentals.
I had a marvelous meeting yesterday with a bunch of educators and
businesspeople because we've challenged the nation's governors to
come up with educational goals. But they're going to get back to
fundamentals of reading and writing and math, science, and now
geography.
But on balance, I am optimistic. And yet, I know
there's an awful lot of reasons to be discouraged in part of some
individuals. But I think I've got to keep an optimistic stance as
President. I've got to keep talking about fundamental values. I've
got to keep trying to do what we can in terms of not only funding
educational initiatives, but restructuring. So we get back to ways
that we can compete. And in the process, these kids will have a
better opportunity.
Q First of all, sir, I'd just like to commend you on
your efforts for the war on drugs.
THE PRESIDENT: Tell me who you are and what grade, or
what staff --
Q What grade? I could kiss you, sir. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead.
Q Sir, I'm an adult volunteer mentor.
THE PRESIDENT: Volunteer. Isn't that great?
Q
-- here at Taft High School. Yes, sir.
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THE PRESIDENT: Well, you do look like you're young.
Come on, you are.
I Well, thank you, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: I won't put you on the record here.
(Laughter.)
Q What I'd like to say is, I'd like to commend your
efforts on the war on drugs and say that we here as a people are
behind you 100 percent. But what I would like to concentrate on is
education. It seems to me that the drug problem that we're having is
a result of the feeling of hopelessness in the educational programs.
And my question is twofold. First is, a lot of the iner-city kids,
even kids that aren't inner-city can't afford higher education, and
if there is some kind of federal program that would lend itself to
possibly giving every American a chance to attend higher education at
no cost? Because we're pricing ourselves out of jobs and out of the
world market.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me put this in perspective -- the
answer. I'll bet you can't guess within 10 percent what percentage
of the funding, the state, local, federal -- comes from the federal
government. I'm not going to put anybody on the spot -- but it is
seven percent. That means that 93 percent comes local and state.
And then, that doesn't even count the volunteers. It doesn't count
what Ed's doing to help somebody -- what you're doing to help
somebody -- which is impossible to price. Because not only do you
bring a certain number of hours a day, but you bring a dimension for
your own dedication that you can't purchase. You're doing it because
you believe in something and you want to help somebody.
So the federal role is properly proscribed. It's not
going to be much bigger. I think what the federal government can do
is the things I was talking to him about. I think you're going to
see a step up on Head Start, which doesn't get to your question, but
I think helps where a federal government has a very specific, and I
think extraordinarily legitimate role in helping these early kids at
the most formative ages. There are federal programs that help on the
Pell grants and things of that nature for the federal government
assists at the college level. There are certain tax things we can do
to encourage savings -- college savings bond program which we've now
got into effect that helps people -- even those that don't have a lot
of money saved -- interest-free -- to educate the kids.
But I don't believe it is the federal role to say the
federal government will pay for every college -- every kid to be
educated in college. I don't want to usurp the the legitimate role o
the states, the private institutions of the volunteer sector, and
also we have very serious constraints on federal funding. We're
operating at a deficit of -- this year, the target is to get it down
to $63 billion or $64 billion.
Who's next? Which one?
Q I would like to present a plaque to you.
THE PRESIDENT: Sure. Come on. (Laughter.) Somebody's
got to hold my -- this is geting overweight here.
Q Mr. President, on behalf of Robert A. Taft High
School Excelled Mentors Program and the Cincinnati Youth
Collaborative, I would like to present this plaque to you, which
says: "Presented to President, George Bush, from the Excelled
Mentors Program, the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, and Robert A.
Taft High School, Cincinnati, Ohio on January 12th.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, Vicky, what about you, though?
How, because you -- or, do you -- having fouled this one up, I mean,
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do you go here?
Q Yes, I do. I'm a 10th grade student.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me ask you something. And I don't
want to put you on the spot. But I mean, generally, when you and
others that are your friends in school -- do you share my optimism
about the future, or are you a little discouraged as it hurdles
ahead?
Q I'm not discouraged at all. I think it has -- it
takes the person -- the person has to, for one, have self-confidence,
which is something that my mentor, Andrea Hughes -- she's given me a
lot.
THE PRESIDENT: Is she helping you? Well now, how does
that work? I mean, does she come over in school and get you aside
and say, "Here are the things I think you ought to concentrate on, or
do you do it at your house? Maybe Andrea can tell us.
Q We do a variety of different things together.
Sometimes, we come over to the high school, and they have programs
such as the -- the Excel Day, where the mentors and the students get
together and talk about different issues.
THE PRESIDENT: In groups or just one-on-one? You and
Vicky?
Q The celebration is in a group. The one-on-one
occurs throughout the month at any given time. Sometimes, we go to
things such as plays together, or if there are particular functions
going on in the city that I think will help broaden her growth and
experience, we may attend those functions. We sometimes go out to
dinner and talk about various different issues -- current events and
things of that nature.
Sometimes we talk about what's going on in school. If
she's getting prepared for a particular examination and she may need
a direction on where to go, I work with her on that aspect. There's
a variety of things that the mentor does with the student, and it's
an individualized program -- that portion of it. But also, we get
together as a group, as a family, because, we, too, believe that
bringing -- building a family atmosphere and environment encourages
the children to go forward and to try to succeed in school.
THE PRESIDENT: Does the Mentor Program concentrate on
areas where a kid doesn't have the benefit of a two-parent family and
all, or not necessarily?
Ω We involve everyone those of single-parent
families and also those of two-parent families, to get the parents
involved in the program, too. So we don't limit it or exclude
anyone. Again, they all are welcome. What we do is, if we have
children who may be in single-parent homes and need to have special
tutoring, we have tutors in this particular program that we lend to
the students.
THE PRESIDENT: That's on a subject, like the kid's
doing lousy in math and -- yes. Who else has something to tell me
about?
Q On a subject -- type of basis, yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Who else has something to tell me about?
Christie, you're looking nervous back there.
Q Mr. President, do you plan to continue or increase
funding for educational programs --
THE PRESIDENT: I think it'll be up. But as I say,
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there are constraints on it. There are constraints on what the
federal government can do in almost every area of social need. Parts
of the federal budget will clearly be up in education. And I've
expressed at the governors -- and I've heard this from all of the
governors, incidentally, that were there -- the need to do more in
Head Start. That doesn't take care of Stacy's problem, but -- you
have limited resources, do the best you can with them. So you'll see
it up in total and you'll see it up in some categories. But not as
much as if the federal government weren't operating at this big
deficit. But it'll increase.
Shoot.
Q I have another question.
THE PRESIDENT: But to the degree it can't -- Christie,
here's the key point -- to the degree it can't, programs like we're
talking about here, programs like this. Programs where individuals
involve themselves in the lives of others become even more important.
And SO it's -- and I happen to think that the more involvement we
have at the local level, the better. I don't think it is the role of
the federal government to tell Ms. Powell -- it is Ms. Powell, isn't
it? The school -- what's the school's --
Q Dr. Powell.
THE PRESIDENT: -- Dr. Powell exactly how the curriculum
ought to work in the schools in Cincinnati -- some guy sitting in a
great, big bureaucratic building in Washington. I don't think SO. I
think that you ought to have controls of those things. I think we
can have national goals that says, look, we're moving into a
different era. Math is going to be more important. Obviously,
reading has got to be fundamental, if you will.
So I think we can help work with the governors to set
goals, but the control has got to remain, in my view, my concept of
education, at the local and school board and parent and mentor and
tutor level -- and obviously teacher level.
You had what they call a follow-on. What is it? Are
you finished? (Laughter.) Who's next? Any of you guys?
Q Mr. President, one of the roles of our mentor
program, the two main goals of our mentor program is to help the
students raise their self-esteem and also to help them to do better
in the required testing in order to go into college. Now, we have
right now on the burners we're trying to have implemented into our
program here at the school the ACT-SAT preparation in the curriculum.
And this is one of the things we're working on. The other, in
raising self-esteem, we're trying to build into our young people the
concept that they are of worth, they are somebody, and that there is
hope.
What I'd like to ask you is, is there anything that you
can do to lend support to a concept like this on a national level?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, kind of like what I was talking to
Ed about. I don't think it's a specific program, but I think it is
encouragement, I think it is having confidence in people and not
picking up this mantle that the young people are all off on some drug
horizon and can't have -- given up. It's the emphasis on -- risk of
repetition -- on fundamental values. And I think it's in that kind
of exhortation, rather than program, that a President can be helpful.
I don't think you can design a curriculum to lift the self-esteem of
a kid. It's got to come from peers, it's got to come from family,
it's got to come from dedicated volunteers or workers who are saying,
"Hey, you are somebody. You can amount to something. So it's in
that broad, philosophical range.
Tell me, though -- how are you involved in this? I
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think people would be interested -- I know I would -- in just the
background. Just use you as a case example. I was going to give
Andrea a chance. But I mean, are you just suddenly a guy that's
concerned and want to pitch in, or how does it work?
Is That's exactly how it starts.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
I It starts with a general concern for the well-being
and productivity of our young people, and we come in as volunteers.
This is my mentee.
THE PRESIDENT: Is he?
o And we try -- and we work with Anthony, encouraging
him. He's already taken his ACT test, and he's improved his scores.
And these are the types of things that we do.
THE PRESIDENT: How do you find Anthony? I mean,
somebody -- say, "Hey, we've got a guy over here that really would
like to work with you and need some help?"
Q We have a coordinator here at the school, and that
person links both the mentor and the student together. And that's
now it's done. And we're in the process of doing recruiting. Anyone
who wants to help us, they're welcome to come on down.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I'd like to use this opportunity
and this marvelous exposure to encourage this volunteerism, encourage
this participation.
Let me ask him. 1 don't want to put you -- you don't
have to. This is not a classroom where you've got to say something.
(Laughter.) But I mean, from your standpoint, are you doing better
because this gentleman is helping out and stuff?
I Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you feel like you've got somebody
that cares?
Q Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: What was it like before? You were just
drifting around and didn't --
Ω I was pretty much the same. I always had my act
together, you know? (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: You did have it together? (Laughter.)
Well, that's good. A lot of guys that didn't. But how about the
chemistry? Does it evel work on the mentor program that you have to
shift around because the --
I We've been pretty fortunate; that has not occurred.
You asked the question, how do the students get into the Excelled
Mentor Program. There are several ways. They could be referred by a
teacher, a counselor -- parents even call. And also, students are
self-referred. They want to be a part of this because they see that
it is a helpful program. And they're excited about being in the
program.
THE PRESIDENT: But do the ones that need it the most
see that? 1 mean, the guys that are really having the most trouble
out there -- maybe the drug scene, maybe the tough home situation?
Do they say, "Hay, I need help," or do you have to go seek them out
and say, "Wait a minute, you're screwing up here, and if you don't
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Q A lot of times, those individuals are referred.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
Q Mr. President, my name is Jim Brock. My favorite
statement is, I'm a Taft High School graduate and I'm in the
mentoring program. I am a homeroom mentor, and that is how we
address the majority of the students, through the homeroom mentoring
program. During that time, we tell the students that there is help
available for you; if you need a tutor there is help available for
you; if you need a mentor to give you a one-on-one approach, that is
also available for you. And that is largely how we address the
students.
We go out into the community; we have an outreach program
where we go to many of the social organizations, we go to churches,
we go to any community organization that will let us speak with them,
we do that. And that's how we are branching out into the community.
THE PRESIDENT: Do parents welcome the mentor approach,
or do they say, "Wait a minute, you're getting in our turf a little
bit"?
VICKY: I know my mother welcomed Andrea a lot. And part
of my getting into the mentoring program was because I was having
trouble in history. And we went to Ms. Harris concerning my history,
and when I got Mr. Sales as my history tutor, then she also asked me,
did I want a mentor? And I agreed to it, so that's how I met Andrea,
was through my mother, because I was having trouble in a certain
subject and we had wanted to get me a tutor. But as I got my tutor,
I also got a mentor.
Q And a part of that mentoring program requires that
the parents meet with the mentors to determine whether or not they
will be comfortable with this relationship with their child or the
children. So at the onset, the parents get involved in that
decision-making process. And it has worked well. And Vicky's mother
and I get along very well, and we sometimes get together and talk
about issues that may have affected Vicky throughout the school year
and get together on how can we help her deal with some of the issues
that she's facing.
One of the issues that we had to address early on was the
fact that she was coming out of a junior high school into the high
school, and it was a new experience for her. And she was sort of
getting steered in the wrong direction by being less academically
inclined and more interested in what was going on socially. So her
mother and I worked with Vicky to get her back on the right track.
And since we've done that, she's been doing very well academically.
THE PRESIDENT: Who else?
Q
Mr. President, my name's Maryanne. I am a
sophomore at Xavier University. Before my freshman year of college,
there -- college tuition is outrageous, and without the Youth
Collaborative I couldn't have afforded the -- I guess it's around
$9,000 a year now. And I think that I've benefitted greatly because
Xavier is a private institution and I get a more personal education
that way, instead of having to go to -- not that U.C. isn't a good
school, but --
THE PRESIDENT: No.
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-- it's more of a -- not as one-on one.
THE PRESIDENT: That's right, you choose as best you can
what you think is best for you.
Q
Please?
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THE PRESIDENT: No, I say -- I can understand that.
Q
Yes. I mean, for me, I like to ask questions when
I'm in a classroom and the Youth Collaborative let me do that, let me
follow the education that I wanted. And they help a lot. And I know
that they're helping a lot of other college-bound students because
they have -- we just opened a college information center, the Youth
Collaborative did, down at the Lazarus in downtown Cincinnati. And
it's kind of a guidance counseling center for students who maybe
don't feel comfortable with their guidance counselors or who have
been disconnected from high school guidance counselors. And it's a
great program.
They have videos of colleges and they have scholarship
information and they have counselors that can speak to you and ask
you where you want to go with your life, and stuff like that -- help
you to make decisions.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's very helpful and
interesting. And it gets back to Stacey's -- whose role is it to
give you a shot, give you a chance, give her -- the kid she's trying
to help a chance? And the answer is, I think it's everybody's. I
think the federal government has a role in these programs. I think
there are these programs -- there's a friend of mine in New Orleans,
Jay Taylor, who guarantees a certain class in a certain school,
you're going to be educated. You do your job, you stay -- lead a
good life, stay out of the difficulties that some kids face on
narcotics or whatever, and we guarantee you -- private, nothing to do
with state, nothing to do -- just helps do what Stacey was asking --
how do we do this? Or what you're saying, that tuition is high. And
these programs are springing up all over the country.
And you take them and multiply them in terms of dollars
and it's amazing what it results in. So back to what somebody asked
me -- who was it -- about what can I do -- Ed -- I think I can do
more to encourage individuals and volunteers all over the country to
-- and it's far more than a federal government can do, far more in
terms of total dollars brought to bear on the program. When you
price out what each person here is doing and put it on a national,
and then try to multiply that, if you could project this program
around the country, it would mind-boggle you in terms of federal
budget.
So maybe I'm getting a little inspiration here that I
need to make this point louder and clearer to others around the
country.
SISTER HARRINGTON: Unfortunately, Mr. President --
THE PRESIDENT: I'm being thrown. I know. (Laughter.)
SISTER HARRINGTON: The clock moves too rapidly. And so,
in the name of all of the people here, I'm going to say thank you for
them. And we're sorry that we can't get questions from everyone.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, maybe we'll get another shot here.
But I will follow this with keen interest and express to those who
are giving your time like this, I'll tell you, you're doing the
Lord's work. Because I am not pessimistic about the young people in
this country and I'm convinced that we can compete. I'm convinced
that we can win this damn battle against narcotics that is just
decimating a lot of families. And I get inspired by this. So I am
very, very grateful to all of you for what you're doing. Thank you
very much.
All right, off we go. (Applause.)
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