Eagles prez Banner: Not your average Joe
AS A BOY in Boston, Joe Banner had an experience that changed his life. His school took students into the city’s rough Roxbury section to teach younger children how to read. “I had some very powerful experiences there,” the Philadelphia Eagles’ president recalled in an interview last week. “I lived a middle-class life . . . and I was struck at how profoundly different my life was from the other children there . . . “I became addicted to that feeling you get when you help other people.” The notion that one person can change the world may sound corny to some. But idealism is at the heart of City Year, an urban youth program that Banner – who served as a program volunteer for two years in …
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Eagles prez Banner: Not your average Joe
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