{"id":68961,"date":"2005-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-sharon-forleo-patience-love-and-plenty-of-talent\/"},"modified":"2005-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T00:00:00","slug":"uris-sharon-forleo-patience-love-and-plenty-of-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/07\/uris-sharon-forleo-patience-love-and-plenty-of-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Sharon Forleo: Patience, love, and plenty of talent"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tTalent Development Program welcomes its largest freshmen class<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013July 29, 2005—The first time Sharon Forleo (then Reynolds) applied to be a part-time tutor for the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Talent Development Program, she was rejected. Not one to be deterred, she kept trying. <\/p>\n


\n\tIn 1974, she was granted an interview with Rev. Arthur Hardge who co-founded the program with Leo DiMaio in 1968 in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The program is designed to give students of color and students from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to attend 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\tAt the time of the interview Forleo was a long-term substitute, teaching English to ninth grade boys with behavioral problems.<\/p>\n


\n\tAsked if she enjoyed her work, she replied: \u201cAll they need is a little patience and lots of love.\u201d Hardge hired her on the spot.<\/p>\n


\n\tToday, Forleo is associate director of TD, as the program is affectionately called. The program, which began with 13 students, is welcoming 288 freshmen this fall, the largest class in its history.<\/p>\n


\nForleo was named the 2005 YWCA Outstanding Woman for promotion of economic empowerment for women for all of her work with the 溏心vlog免费B站 program. \u201cI\u2019m so fortunate because what I do and what I believe are the same,\u201d she says. \u201cNot everyone can say that about their job. Talent Development is such a unique program. Look at the longevity of it. Similar programs that began at the same time are all gone because the intent and funding have all dried up. TD just keeps getting stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nForleo is in charge of the residential summer program, in which TD freshmen must earn six college credits with a \u201cC\u201d or higher. While most TD students do well in high school, SATs are the real hurdle. Without the support of the TD program, these students would never be accepted into college.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s so much joy in it,\u201d the Foster resident says. \u201cI see such an enormous change in just six weeks. I get to see them grow.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nForleo relates easily to the students. Her father died when she was 3 and her mother didn\u2019t work until she was 10. Growing up in affluent Barrington, she felt like an outsider. \u201cI know what it is to be marginalized,\u201d she says. She never thought about college, until a guidance counselor forced her to apply to 溏心vlog免费B站, from which she graduated with an English degree in 1972.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe met her husband, Frank Forleo, assistant director of TD, in a 1975 staff orientation meeting. The two grandparents-to-be have worked side-by-side ever since.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if I could have gotten through without her help,\u201d says Persjha Conry, a 2005 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna who is a counselor in the summer program. One of six children, Conry said she didn\u2019t speak until she was 10. \u201cIt was about everything I was seeing,\u201d she says. Her mother died when she was 17. Her father was addicted to drugs. Violence permeated her Pawtucket neighborhood. For example, she never went to her high school prom, because her date was shot. When she first arrived at the University, she was overwhelmed with paperwork. Forleo made it easy. \u201cShe was always there for me, always willing to hear me, even about some rough stuff in my personal life. And she wasn\u2019t afraid to kick me in the butt, when I needed it to be kicked.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThis is the fourth year, Mike DiGioia, a 1997 political science alumnus, has been a counselor for the summer program. \u201cI credit my success to Sharon,\u201d the third year law student says. \u201cShe stuck by me and gave me the stability I never had.\u201d DiGioia admits to being rebellious and opposed to authority growing up in Bristol and at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cI wanted nothing to do with Sharon, nothing to do with Talent Development, and nothing to do with the University.\u201d He recalls being in Forleo\u2019s office and saying that he wanted to get out of there. Forleo responded: \u201cOh, do you want to study abroad?\u201d \u201cShe helped me grow,\u201d he says. \u201cAcademically and spiritually.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nForleo says she doesn\u2019t have any favorites, past or present students. \u201cThe most important student is the one that\u2019s sitting in front of me. I want to know what that student needs and what I can do to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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