Where Their Mouths Are
By Mitch Berg
Dunwoody – a Minneapolis private technical school – offers a huge reward to one of last week’s heroes:
If school bus evacuator Jeremy Hernandez wants to resume learning auto mechanics at Dunwoody College of Technology, he can do so without charge.
The Minneapolis school made that offer to Hernandez’s family Saturday
School spokesman Dave Jarzyna said the school was bombarded with phone calls from the public, after word got out that Hernandez couldn’t afford to continue attending.
“Universally they said we need to do something for this guy,” Jarzyna said.
“We’re going to make sure that if he wants to come to Dunwoody, he’ll have the resources to do that,” Jarzyna said. Hernanedez, 20, could not be reached immediately for comment.
“The ball’s in his court and we’re hoping to hear from him,” Jarzyna said.
Of course, this sort of thing is great PR for Dunwoody; it warms up a spot in the press’ and public’s hearts for the place.
Just like now.
Well played, to all concerned…
UPDATE: Ed notes that you can contribute to Dunwoody’s scholarship program here. It’d be a great way to say “thanks” for saying thanks.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
[…] UPDATE: Mitch caught this story earlier. Jeremy Hernandez, who helped rescue the children from the school bus, was on it because he could not afford to attend school for auto mechanics. Now Dunwoody — a technical college in Minneapolis — has offered Jeremy a full scholarship: If school bus evacuator Jeremy Hernandez wants to resume learning auto mechanics at Dunwoody College of Technology, he can do so without charge. […]
October 25th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
[…] Today, I’ll just hope and pray that the families of the dead and injured can find some peace and comfort, and to thank the rescue workers and citizens on the scene who helped prevent a much worse tragedy. […]