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Welcome to CruBlog! Read on for exciting news about what our middle school and high school members have accomplished lately. You’ll also discover insightful comments from our Advisory staff and messages from successful College Crusade Alumni doing great things out in the world.

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JWU Talent Show to Benefit Scholarship

The Latino American Club at Johnson & Wales University is holding a benefit talent show for The College Crusade this month! The event is called Chaotic Talento and is scheduled for April 30 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Xavier Auditorium on the JWU Downtown campus. There will be cash prizes for winning performances and [...]

Cox Charities supports The College Crusade

We are excited and grateful to be the recipient of a community grant from Cox Charities of New England this year. To receive the award, College Crusade staff members attended a celebratory breakfast on March 16 at Cox Communications in West Warwick. Pictured from left to right are Paul Cronin, senior vice president and general [...]

PC Students Host Fundraiser

Three students from Providence College organized a fundraising event for The College Crusade as a project for their Organizational Theory class this term! Project team members (left to right) were junior Ben Farrer of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; junior Ben Cerroni of Dublin, N.H.; and senior Andrew Kelley of Wakefield, R.I. They chose a fun venue [...]

Amgen Career Speaker at Cru Club

Deb Donovan, director of maintenance for Amgen Inc., visited Cru Club on December 6 to talk with Crusaders about how she became a chemical engineer. She spoke to both middle school and high school groups, describing her path to college and explaining how education prepared her for a good career. Thanks to Deb for sharing [...]

Thanks to the Amgen Foundation

On July 17, The Amgen Foundation visited our Ways to A’s study-skills program to present a check for $20,000 to a classroom of Crusaders! During the visit, company representatives Larry Bernard, Thomas Spooner, and Erin Tetreault talked with the group of 9th graders about careers with Amgen and described how their own college experiences prepared [...]

Letters of Thanks

Middle school and high school Crusaders wrote lots of thank-you letters to friends and supporters of The College Crusade this year. Among the recipients were Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, and Rep. James Langevin, along with generous funders such as Bank of America, Amgen Foundation, Textron, June Rockwell Levy Foundation, Joukowsky Family Foundation, and Andrade-Faxon Charities for Children. In their letters, they described [...]