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#UpwardBound #CCBC Catonsville Summer Academy #2022 Wrap-Up

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 #UpwardBound #CCBC Catonsville Summer Academy #2022 Wrap-Up Above Photo (CCBC President,  Dr. Sandra L. Kurtinitis , Program Director, Mrs. Jaime Bell, Program Coordinator, Mrs. Esther Dabipi, Part-time faculty: Dr. Kayra Alvarado, Richard Gray, Daniel Lindsey, Kerry Martin, Professor Charles Shimonkevitz, Chanelle Thomas, and Andrea Wilson, with Upward Bound Summer Academy Scholars.    The Photo was taken by Program Coordinator Ms. Tabu Winslow Morris, MBA. As we are getting ready for the start of a new academic school year and a new 5-year grant cycle, the faculty and staff of Upward Bound CCBC Catonsville want to wish our scholars a successful new academic calendar year. Our scholars had a fun-packed, culturally packed, and academically packed Summer Academy. We wish our graduates off to college with the Summer Bridge Academy.  Took our first overnight college tour to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, before #Covid. We visited Annapolis, Maryla...

FAMILY VACATION 2022

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 FAMILY VACATION 2022 Photo- commissioned photo by  Steve Miller Photography It is fantastic when a family can come together and spend quality time with one another just to have fun. My family did that this year for the first time since I was a child. Most of my siblings, nieces, nephews, a few cousins, and friends attended. I will never forget the good time we had. Honestly, I thought we were not going to have as much fun. But we had a fantastic time. We had an agenda planned for us each day. We had a caterer. On some days, some of the family stayed at our vacation home and enjoyed the amenities. Others spent most of the day and night out in about.  I said I would not write this blog after losing my oldest sister, Ms. Joy Eleanor Winslow, shortly after we returned from vacation, but I decided to because I knew she would want me to do it. Why? Because as crazy as our world can be, we must stop and enjoy life and each other.  If you have been putting...