Teacher leaves $1 million to school, and more

Teacher leaves $1 million to school

Before he died last July, Dr. Julian Scheinbuks said he would leave some money to Chicago State University, where he worked for more than 20 years as a biology teacher, researcher, and administrator. But school officials hadn’t dreamed the never-married educator would bequeath $1 million to the institution, which serves mostly black students on the city’s South Side. “Julian believed these students could learn,” said biology department chairman Floyd Banks. “And now he’s made it possible for more minority students to get through this university.”

A rare performance on Broadway

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The crowd saw an especially rare performance at a recent matinee showing of the Broadway musical Anything Goes. After the curtain dropped, the actors called up Marine Capt. Zubah Koweh and his girlfriend, Navy Ensign Amy Sullivan, who were in New York for Fleet Week. Koweh grabbed the microphone and proposed marriage before an audience of more than 1,000 people. “We’ve had some really good times, some not-so-good times. But through it all, I’ve realized I’d like to spend the rest of my life with you,” said Koweh. Sullivan said yes. “I didn’t have any idea that was coming,” she said.

Long lost ring turns up in sewer debris

In 1938, young Jesse Mattos accidentally dropped his high school ring into a toilet at a local butcher shop in Dunsmuir, Calif. Seventy-three years later, Tony Congi, a sewer maintenance worker and fellow alumnus of Dunsmuir High School, found it in a bucket of sewer debris. He had the ring cleaned, saw the initials engraved on it, and tracked down Mattos with the help of an old school yearbook. “This ring thing was a real booster for me,” said Mattos, 90, who recently lost his wife. “I felt like I was a lot younger again.”