Feels Good: $1000 For Grads And Coach Saves Athlete

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We share a we share with you every day on
this show. I love this so much so.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Robert Hale Junior, who is the billionaire founder and CEO
of Granite Telecommunications, gave graduates at the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth one thousand dollars each so during his Commitments Speak
commencement speech to the one two hundred grads, he said
that he and his wife have always gotten a lot
of joy out of giving back, which I love to

(00:30):
see since he's a billionaire.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
He offered each.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Graduating student five hundred dollars for them and five hundred
to be given to someone in need or a charity
or a cause that is close to them. Part of
his speech touched on how things have been really trying
for a lot of people and there's a heightened need
for sharing, caring and giving. So I love that he
said five hundred for you and then please.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Pass it forward. Wow, with the rest of the five hundred.
We know what Rufio would do.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, Yeah, I'd find someone that I know that's graduating
with me and be like, hey, you give me a
five hundred, I give you my five hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
We both need it. Just some sort of there's always
some kind of a.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
You scratch my back off, I'll then run with the
money in the other direction.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
So this is cool.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Elmhurst, Illinois York High school coach Nicholas Kravolos saved a
student athlete's life. Her name was Chloe Poet by performing
CPR in her when she collapsed and attracted me in April.
Thank you to Kathy for sending me this. By the way,
she would have been a state qualifier in the triple jump,
but she never got the chance. But because of his
quick action, she survived. She's okay, she said, I don't

(01:40):
remember warming up or anything. She suffered a sudden cardiac
arrest after finishing her last triple jump at a meat
in April. She collapsed and barely had a pulse when
he sprang into action, putting his CPR training to good use.
Someone said the word CPR, and that's when it clicked. Okay,
we got to do this right now. He did it
for nearly four minutes until the paramedics arrived. Doctors said
that he might have helped her get enough oxtion going
to prevent brain damage, and it saved your life as well,

(02:03):
So yeah, it is awesome.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I learned CPR from the office first. I was afraid.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I was a