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Michael N. Castle

"I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway."

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"I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway."

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A.E. Samaan

"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"

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A.E. Samaan

"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."

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A.E. Samaan

"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."

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A.E. Samaan

"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."

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A.E. Samaan

"I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't."

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A.E. Samaan

"That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that."

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A.E. Samaan

"The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment."

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A.E. Samaan

"I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers."

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A.E. Samaan

"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college."

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A.E. Samaan

"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."

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Michael N. Castle
"Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try."

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Michael N. Castle
"The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives."

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Michael N. Castle
"But all of this success came at the end of a long climb."

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Michael N. Castle
"With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students."

Education

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Michael N. Castle
"Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will."

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Michael N. Castle
"They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college."

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Michael N. Castle
"Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation."

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Michael N. Castle
"Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family."

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Michael N. Castle
"These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect."

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Michael N. Castle
"When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality."

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