MY FORMER STUDENT DRAFTED TO THE WHITE SOX !

I AM ALWAYS SO PROUD WHEN I FIND OUT ONE OF MY FORMER STUDENTS IS ON A PATH TO SUCCESS. A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I WAS BLOWN AWAY WHEN ANOTHER ANTHONY WAS ACCEPTED TO YALE LAW SCHOOL.

ANOTHER YOUNG LADY WAS ATTENDING F.I.T IN NYC INSPIRED BY A FIELD TRIP WE TOOK WHICH INCLUDED A TOUR OF THE SCHOOL & ITS EXHIBITS.

I WAS AT THE GYM RECENTLY WHEN TWO GOOD LOOKING, WELL MANNERED YOUNG MEN APPROACHED ME .

 THEY HAD SEEN ME THERE BEFORE AND WANTED TO SAY HELLO.

I WAS THINKING THEY WANTED TO WORK OUT ON THE MACHINE I WAS ON . INSTEAD I GOT ONE OF THE NICEST SURPRISES I'VE HAD IN A WHILE: THEY WERE EX STUDENTS OF MINE.
ONE OF THEM, DAVID ALICES,  STARTED SPEAKING FRENCH- HE SAID I HAD TAUGHT HIM LANGUAGES. HE HAS A FINE CAREER IN NJ NOW.

THE OTHER, ANTHONY  SANTIAGO, LANDED A MINOR LEAGUE DEAL WITH THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX (LIKE HIS BROTHER HECTOR, ANOTHER ALUM FROM THE MIDDLE SCHOOL I TAUGHT IN NEWARK, NJ).

THOUGH ANTHONY HAS TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY IN HIS YOUNG AGE, HE SAYS NEWARK WILL ALWAYS BE HOME. A HUMBLE AND GENUINE YOUNG MAN.

MY HEART IS FULL OF PRIDE! THEY MADE MY DAY, WEEK, YEAR...

GODSPEED BOYS!

HERE'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ANTHONY:

"For Anthony and Hector Santiago Jr., playing baseball together is a black and white kind of thing.
The Newark brothers grew up playing together and even competed for county and state titles at Bloomfield Tech (with Anthony catching southpaw Hector Jr.).  They also played for Newark Little League teams and now, the two have the rare chance to reunite again on the diamond – this time in the big leagues.
Anthony, 23, inked a minor-league deal with the Chicago White Sox last weekend, the same team his older brother, Hector Jr., 24, was called up from nearly one year ago.
"Just to think that one day I might actually be able to (play with him) again, in front of 40,000 fans, I pray for that to happen," said Anthony sporting a black and white Sox cap and t-shirt. "My brother's like my best friend … He always told me, 'You can play at this level, you're definitely just as good as any of these players or better.'" (from "THE BLOOMFIELD PATCH")