{"id":68896,"date":"2005-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-alumnus-donor-recruiter-advocate-mentor-tutor-internship-program-at-uri-beneficiary\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T00:00:00","slug":"uri-alumnus-donor-recruiter-advocate-mentor-tutor-internship-program-at-uri-beneficiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/06\/uri-alumnus-donor-recruiter-advocate-mentor-tutor-internship-program-at-uri-beneficiary\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus — Donor, recruiter, advocate Mentor\/ Tutor Internship Program at 溏心vlog免费B站 beneficiary"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — June 27, 2005 — Jerry Kritz not only financially supports the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Mentor\/Tutor Internship Program, he recruits students for it.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe figures he\u2019s already recruited a half a dozen students while shopping at Shaw\u2019s supermarket near his Wakefield home.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI always carry brochures (for the program) in my car,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I see a student working there is interested, I\u2019ll run out and get a brochure. And they always know I\u2019ll be back to the store the following week.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 Political Science Professor Al Killilea created the program in 1998, an outcome of his membership in the South County Coalition Against Racism. Killilea piloted the program with eight 溏心vlog免费B站 students of color to see if they could break down racial stereotypes in local schools by helping teen-age students who, feeling isolated, had the potential for truancy.<\/p>\n


\n\tSince that time the program, under the guidance of the program\u2019s energetic coordinator Cherie Aiello, MTI has evolved and expanded. Today, there are more than 200 溏心vlog免费B站 student-mentors in elementary through high schools from Westerly to Providence offering children friendship as well as a firm footing to keep them from slipping in their schoolwork.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThese 溏心vlog免费B站 students are changing lives,\u201d Kritz enthuses. \u201cKids who were on the verge of dropping out have remained in school and many have gone on to college. And some of them have even become mentors themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tCommunity service has always been part of the Kritz family. \u201cIt is stressed in my religion,\u201d Kritz says. His father was a cantor in Providence for 30 years; a tradition one brother carries on in Massachusetts. Kritz attended Hope High School, but graduated from the New England Academy of the Torah. He says the school taught \u201creading, writing, arithmetic, and community service.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThree years ago, the 1976 political science alumnus asked his former professor and longtime friend, Al Killilea, how he could help 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Political Science Department. The professor suggested funding the growing internship program, which had been receiving some support from The John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service at 溏心vlog免费B站. <\/p>\n


\nKritz had asked that his gifts remain anonymous. \u201cThe story is about the students, not me,\u201d says the Connecticut representative for Countrywide Home Mortgage. This year, he agreed to be interviewed only if it would help bring attention to the program. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s been the Deep Throat of the MTI program,\u201d says Killilea with a wide grin.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMTI profits from Jerry\u2019s encouragement and enthusiasm as well as from his extraordinary generosity,\u201d says Killilea. \u201cJerry will go into our business classes to recruit and let the students know that community service is important to employers like him. Jerry knows they may try MTI for r\u00e9sum\u00e9 reasons, but they will come to love the experience for its own sake.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe day of the interview both men, along with Cherie Aiello, program coordinator, were busy packing nearly 3,800 books that were destined for elementary school children whose families can\u2019t afford them. Students who mentored at the school and two other similar sites saw the need for the books. As a consequence, Aiello applied for and received a First Book grant for 4,200 books from the First Book Campus Advisory Board, formed last year by Darshell Silva, then a graduate student working in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Clearinghouse for Volunteers, a program of the Feinstein Center for Service Learning. The advisory board is a local chapter of the national First Book Program, which gives children from low-income families the chance to own their own books..<\/p>\n


\n\t \u201cI can\u2019t wait to see the kid\u2019s faces,\u201d Kritz says as he stuffs the last box of books into his SUV.<\/p>\n


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\nREADY TO DELIVER: 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor of Political Science Al Killilea, left, founder of 溏心vlog免费B站 Mentor\/Tutor Internship program, Cherie Aiello, MTI program coordinator; and donor Jerry Kritz rest briefly after packing books into Kritz\u2019s SUV. 溏心vlog免费B站 Photo by Nora Lewis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — June 27, 2005 — Jerry Kritz not only financially supports the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Mentor\/Tutor Internship Program, he recruits students for it. He figures he\u2019s already recruited a half a dozen students while shopping at Shaw\u2019s supermarket near his Wakefield home. \u201cI always carry brochures (for the program) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}