Kiwanis Club of Biscayne Bay AWARDS: A Four Year Fully Paid Project Stars College Scholarship to a 5th grade student at Santa Clara
On Monday, May 19, 2008 Fredrick “Rick” Freedman of the law firm of Gordon & Doner conducted a Press Conference at Santa Clara Elementary School in Miami. The Press Conference was called to announce the awarding of a 4 year fully paid college scholarship to a 5th grade student at the school. This was a project that Mr. Freedman started through his Kiwanis Club while President and this was the first of many scholarships they planned on awarding to students in their community. Also addressing the press were Superintendent of Schools Rudy Crew and Former Chairman of the Board of the Florida College Prepaid Program, Stanley Tate.
Mr. Freedman began his presentation by quoting Robert Kennedy who said: “There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why … I dream things that never were and ask why not?”
Mr. Freedman is President Emeritus of the Kiwanis Club of Biscayne Bay. For more than a decade now, this Club has been an active supporter of Santa Clara Elementary School. Ten years ago they started the Raising Readers Program reading monthly to the 3rd graders at the school. They have supported the school with back packs, school supplies, prizes and awards for the students who do well at the school, money for trips and a host of other things.
Mr. Freedman introduced two men who have had so much to do with the education of the students in Miami Dade County and throughout the State of Florida. First, was Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Rudy Crew. Second, was Mr. Stanley Tate, a fellow TEP fraternity brother of Mr. Freedman’s from the Univ. of Florida. In 1987, Mr. Tate helped to create what has become the largest and most successfully state run prepaid college tuition program in the country. For 18 years, he was the Chairman of the Board of Florida Prepaid and in 2006 Governor Jeb Bush signed a bill into law renaming the program the Stanley Tate Florida Prepaid College Program.
We are an organization whose motto is “helping the children of the world”, said Freedman. Education is the best way that we can help our children in this community – to succeed in life.
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