A window into college
Sampson Prosper, a fourth-grader from the James W. Hennigan Elementary School in Jamaica Plain, got to fly on the stage of Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall on April 14. Well, he did have some help. With encouragement from the Rev. John Matthews Border IV, who gave a speech about reaching far and aiming high, the 9-year-old boy took the stage with Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson, administrators, and Harvard student Evan Covington ’12, who had welcomed the group in Mandarin just moments before. Sampson took his chair. Then he stood on it. And in front of more than 300 boys, as well as principals and teachers from 25 Boston public schools, Sampson leapt into the arms of three tall mentors who flew him across the stage in their outstretched arms. Sampson’s wingmen were Lt. James Jones, station commander of State Police Troop H and a Harvard Kennedy School alumnus; Jermaine Myrie,...