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I don't recall.
He was going to give the usual type, “Work hard as I did. You can become a millionaire.”
That's right.
I guess he's a multi-millionaire. He looked around, and I guess this was his former public school, wasn't it?
Right, right.
But since his time now it's, I guess, predominantly if not totally black.
And Hispanic.
And Hispanic, correct. He looked around and he got up and he promised, correct me if I'm wrong in detail here, he promised that graduating class that if he stayed in school through high school that he was going to start putting money away for them, a fund for each individual so that they would have the money for tuition to go to college. I guess they're what? Are they juniors now, or seniors this year? Seniors this year?
Yes, I think some of them are seniors now.
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