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 MIAMI — Former Miami Heat player Alonzo Mourning and his wife Tracy recently visited students in the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project at Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School. Mourning, now Miami Heat vice president of Player Programs and Development, spoke to Role Model students about being responsible and planning for their future.
The 5000 Role
Models of Excellence Project, a dropout prevention/intervention program
for boys ages 9-19, was founded in 1993 by Congresswoman Frederica S.
Wilson while she served on the School Board of Miami-Dade County.
The
program’s goal is to provide young boys with a carefully chartered path
to manhood by pairing them with adult mentors whose legitimate success
can inspire them to successes of their own.
This
year the Role Models program is celebrating “20 Years of Mentoring,
Guidance, and Educational Assistance” with the Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Unity Scholarship Breakfast on Friday, Jan. 18.
The
annual breakfast is the signature fundraising event of the 5000 Role
Models of Excellence Project Foundation Inc., through which Role Models
has awarded millions in scholarships to graduating seniors of the
program since its founding by Wilson.
The
event takes place at 8:30 a.m. in the Jungle Island Treetop Ballroom,
1111 Parrot Jungle Tr., Miami. The keynote speaker is award-winning
actor Malik Yoba, who is starring as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the
television movie Betty and Coretta, scheduled to be released in
February.
Other
noted guests will include Wilson, Role Model Robert Parker, former
director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, School Board members and
school officials, 5000 Role Models students and mentors, and elected
officials.
For more information call Tammy T. Reed or Renee Jones at 305-995-2451, ext. 2
IF YOU GO:
WHAT: 5000 Role Models of Excellence Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Scholarship Breakfast
WHEN: Friday, Jan. 18
WHERE: Jungle Island Treetop Ballroom, 1111 Parrot Jungle Tr., Miami
CONTACT: Call 305-995-2451, ext. 2
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