Thanksgiving dinner

NOV. 26—The Gateway Clipper Fleet will host their Thanksgiving Day Dinner Cruise at 3 p.m. at 350 W. Station Square Dr., Station Square. Celebrate Thanksgiving with this 2-1/2-hour cruise along Pittsburgh’s three rivers while enjoying a turkey buffet with all the trimmings. There will also be a Holiday Captain’s Dinner Cruise Nov. 28 at 6:30 p.m. This cruise features a delicious dinner buffet and live entertainment performing seasonal songs all while sailing the beautiful three rivers. For more information, call 412-355-7980.

When Jahmiah Guillory entered his senior year, his grade point average was 1.7. Then during an assembly at Oliver High School, he learned about the Pittsburgh Promise, a program that helps pay for college for any Pittsburgh Public School student graduating with a 2.25 average.

“At that time it was just mathematically possible for me to do that,” he told the audience at the Nov. 12 Graduate Pittsburgh Summit on reducing dropouts at the YWCA. “But I would have had to get 4.0s, four quarters in a row—well, I did. Now I’m at Penn State studying petroleum and gas engineering. I expect I’ll have about a 3.6 for my first semester grade.”

SALUTING SUCCESS— Pittsburgh Promise Executive Director Saleem Ghubril congratulates Jahmiah Guillory, now at Penn State, for achieving two consecutive 4.0 GPA semesters in his senior year to qualify for the Promise scholarship.

During his keynote speech, Pittsburgh Promise Executive Director Saleem Ghubril asked Guillory to address the audience because he exemplifies what the Promise hopes to achieve. Guillory, who grew up with seven siblings and a single mother in Northview Heights, is now the first in his family to attend college.

This year’s YWCA Greater Pittsburgh Racial Justice Awards marked the 140th anniversary of the local branch. In honor of the anniversary, CEO Magdeline Jensen took the opportunity to look back on how the YWCA has handled issues of race over the past 140 years.

“In short, for 140 years the women of the YWCA in Pittsburgh have been trying to do the ‘right thing’ for racial justice,” Jensen said. “We have not always exactly agreed as to what the right thing is, and we have not always proceeded in the right way—but we have had some success along this journey, and we keep working at it.”

HONOREES—From left: Laurence Glasco, three members of the Nueve Lunas organization, George Miles, Grace Robinson, Father Regis Ryan, and Lisa Thorpe-Vaughn.