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Penn Relays Inspire
Scholarship Challenge
When Lolita Jackson, ENG’89, and David France,
C’89, decided at their 10th reunion to raise funds for the W.E.B.
DuBois Scholarship, they formed a committee, set a target, and established
a time frame. Inspired by the spirit of the Penn Relays, they launched
the "250 in 5" campaign — an initiative to raise $250,000 in five
years. Sprinting ever since, the team quickly surpassed its initial
goal and today the campaign stands at more than $800,000.
Praising "all they have accomplished," University Trustee and SAS
Overseer Paul C. Williams, W’67, recently pledged $25,000 in a special
"relay challenge" designed to encourage the group to keep fundraising
and making Penn accessible to promising black students.
"Their success is our
success," says Williams, who
offered the challenge as an expression of
"support for their extraordinary work."
"I particularly like the metaphor of a
relay race," he adds. "In a sense, we are
all running together in a relay or side
by side and can challenge each other
to do even more."
Williams joined the relay with an
initial $5,000 contribution, pledging
another $5,000 for each $50,000
milestone the group achieves as they
advance toward the $1-million mark.
The alumni leader says the entire
Penn community "should be challenged"
by the efforts of the group. As he notes,
"They have shown us what’s possible
when determined people come together
in a common cause."
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