Joe Ceasar, cofounder of the Legacy Institute for Monetary Schooling, was offered the Presidentβs Award Saturday night time in the course of the fifteenth annual Involved Black Males of Lufkin Scholarship Gala.
The gala is put collectively annually to lift funds for college kids of Lufkin Excessive Faculty. And on the finish of the occasion, Johnny Giles, president of the Involved Black Males, might be heard on stage urgent company at every desk to donate for the scholarships.
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