Sergey Brin attended my high school. I found out through Wikipedia, in college, in 2009. To my knowledge, he has never mentioned, visited, or donated to it, personally or through Google/Alphabet. We were not a rich private prep or anything like that, just a majority-minority community school that benefited from a school-within-a-school-type magnet program and proximity to several research institutions (particularly NASA Goddard); outside support would have been more than welcome. Brin was certainly phenomenally intelligent from the get-go (as related by the teachers who remembered him), so it's questionable how great or negligible Roosevelt's influence on him was.
Still, I take a lot away, inasmuch as his character is concerned, from his regard for us. One would think that singular and eminent success such as his would consider the role of every community he passed through in the shaping of his fortunes.
For comparison, Martin Lawrence at least got his teacher a car (RIP Froggie).
Still, I take a lot away, inasmuch as his character is concerned, from his regard for us. One would think that singular and eminent success such as his would consider the role of every community he passed through in the shaping of his fortunes.
For comparison, Martin Lawrence at least got his teacher a car (RIP Froggie).