East Lake Foundation
They’ve had a while to let it sink in. The historic significance. The bond they’ll always share. Charles R. Drew Charter School in Southeast Atlanta, which last May became the first all-black high school team and first public school in the city to win the Georgia (public-school) state boys’ golf championship, opens defense of its title as the season begins this month. Optimism abounds.
SOURCE: PGA TOUR
The Charles R. Drew Charter School boys golf team made history in May when it became the first all-black high school team — and the first team from the Atlanta public school system — to win the Georgia state championship.
SOURCE: NBC News
Columbia Residential is leading an $82 million investment in the Villages of East Lake, one of the largest preservations of affordable housing in the city’s history.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
During the [DeKalb County] commission meeting on Tuesday, the [Drew Golf] team and their coaches were presented with a resolution honoring their accomplishments.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Drew Charter is intimately connected to the site of next week’s Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club. It stands next door to the club as a physical testament to the rebirth of the neighborhood spawned by East Lake and the season-ending PGA Tour event.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
For the past seven years, the East Lake Foundation has hosted five Bank of America Student Leaders for a summer internship. One of this year’s interns, Rashan Schoffner, graduated from Charles R. Drew Charter School this past May and will be attending Howard University this fall to study film directing and producing.
SOURCE: Decaturish
They came back stronger this year, and in May, the golf team became the first Atlanta public school to win a state championship in Georgia. Not only did the boys win, but the team also created history in a different way – the students, including coaching staff, became the first all-black golf team to do so.
SOURCE: Face 2 Face Africa
Urban blight is all too common in inner cities, ruefully, but there is a remedy, and one that has been often documented and continuously demonstrated in Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood. Golf.
SOURCE: Golf Digest
The First Tee of Atlanta and The First Tee of East Lake have announced they will combine to become The First Tee of Metro Atlanta, effective July 1. The newly consolidated organization now expects to serve roughly 145,000 participants through its various programs, including the after-school DRIVE (Develops Rewarding, Inspiring Values for Everyone) and the National Schools Program.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
The Drew Charter School Boys varsity Golf Team recently walked away with the Georgia Class A Championship. They are the first Atlanta Public school to do so. We learn more about the historic victory from Jeff Dunovant, coach of the Drew Golf Team, and two recent Drew graduates Solomon Dobbs and Christopher McCrary.
SOURCE: WABE
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