The Belmont 112, 20 years later
by Dale Mezzacappa
On a sweltering June day in 1987, philanthropists George and Diane Weiss gave the 112 sixth-graders at Belmont Elementary School, located in one of Philadelphia's most impoverished neighborhoods, the gift of a lifetime: free college tuition and a helping hand to get there. Two decades later, about 60 percent of those students are high school graduates, about 40 percent earned some kind of post-secondary degree and all of their lives have been affected.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/22/2007