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Shot at Change
Friday, September 25, 2009
Community House launches new academy as it marks 40th anniversary (Princeton Univ.)
Courtesy: HepsTrack.comPrinceton University’s Eric Plummer is an imposing figure. In fact, as a sophomore at Outdoors Heps, he flung the shot just an inch shy of 60 feet, nearly becoming the first Ivy Leaguer to manage that feat at the Championship in more than two decades. Even two-time Olympic silver medalist Adam Nelson didn’t pop a 60-footer at Heps!
But Plummer, a senior from Plainfield, N.J., possesses an enormously disarming smile and a huge heart. Not only is he a member of the board that has planned and will launch the Community House Academy on Princeton’s campus, he is a project coordinator for Crossings, an initiative to examine diversity with the students from the John Witherspoon Middle School.
Community House, founded in 1969, will be launching a new initiative with the Academy, an after-school program designed to tackle the minority achievement gap, the disparity between students of color and white students.
“I’m excited about the new building and also that Community House is concentrating its effort” on the minority achievement gap, Plummer said. “Hopefully it will show that with our manpower we can actually make a change.”
Community House is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a public open house at its new home at 58 Prospect Avenue from 1 to 3 pm on Saturday, September 19.
For more on the celebration and community outreach efforts, please click here.
