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Miriam1947
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articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-03-30/news/bs-md-ci-cosby-community-center-20120330_1_oblate-sisters-community-center-baltimore-catholic-school
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A historic Baltimore Catholic school will name its community center in honor of Bill and Camille Cosby, the biggest donors in the school’s 184-year history and fierce champions of education, the school announced Friday.
St. Frances Academy, which serves 162 primarily low-income high school students, will host the comedian, his wife and their relatives in a ceremony at the St. Frances Community Center on April 20.
St. Frances was founded by Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, who established the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore more than 180 years ago. Camille Cosby attended the now-closed St. Cyprian Elementary-Middle School in Washington, also founded by the Oblate Sisters.
Camille Cosby said her experience being educated by the Oblate Sisters was among the most formative of her life. She said she committed the Cosby name to the community center in honor of “an extraordinary order of women.”
She still has strong ties to many of the nuns and speaks with passion about the important role they played, and continue to play, in educating black children. It was at St. Cyprian, she said, that she learned there were three African popes.
“They gave us a sense of history pertaining to being black, and because they are women, they gave us pride about our gender,” she said. “They didn’t show any prejudices, they nurtured us, they wanted all of us to be educated.”
Three-quarters of St. Frances’ high school students qualify for free and reduced-price lunches, and the school boasts a 98 percent college-acceptance rate among its seniors. Between 2003 and 2012, 98 percent of the school’s alumni earned a college degree within five years of graduating from St. Frances.
Excerpt:
A historic Baltimore Catholic school will name its community center in honor of Bill and Camille Cosby, the biggest donors in the school’s 184-year history and fierce champions of education, the school announced Friday.
St. Frances Academy, which serves 162 primarily low-income high school students, will host the comedian, his wife and their relatives in a ceremony at the St. Frances Community Center on April 20.
St. Frances was founded by Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, who established the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore more than 180 years ago. Camille Cosby attended the now-closed St. Cyprian Elementary-Middle School in Washington, also founded by the Oblate Sisters.
Camille Cosby said her experience being educated by the Oblate Sisters was among the most formative of her life. She said she committed the Cosby name to the community center in honor of “an extraordinary order of women.”
She still has strong ties to many of the nuns and speaks with passion about the important role they played, and continue to play, in educating black children. It was at St. Cyprian, she said, that she learned there were three African popes.
“They gave us a sense of history pertaining to being black, and because they are women, they gave us pride about our gender,” she said. “They didn’t show any prejudices, they nurtured us, they wanted all of us to be educated.”
Three-quarters of St. Frances’ high school students qualify for free and reduced-price lunches, and the school boasts a 98 percent college-acceptance rate among its seniors. Between 2003 and 2012, 98 percent of the school’s alumni earned a college degree within five years of graduating from St. Frances.
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