![]() They also have lots of bills, John Humes said, because his wife has medical issues and his 17-year-old daughter, Jackie, has Down syndrome. Humes, a special-education teacher at Kensington Health Sciences Academy, and his wife, Phyllis, have three children. Bernadette of Lourdes in Drexel Hill if it wasn't for a $3,500 scholarship from BLOCS. Humes' 14-year-old daughter, Autumn, would not have been able to attend eighth-grade classes at St. "Don Saleski was my childhood hero," said John Humes, 55, of Lansdowne. This year, Saleski said, BLOCS is on target to raise $16 million, primarily through two Pennsylvania tax-credit programs. Don Saleski, the scrappy former Flyers forward affectionately known as Big Bird during his playing days, has spread his wings.Īs a result, thousands of teenagers, primarily from the inner city, are benefiting through scholarships that pay for most of their tuition to parochial grade schools and high schools in the Philadelphia area.įorty years after he was on a Flyers team that won its second straight Stanley Cup, Saleski now is a partner with a company that processes payments for hospitals, but he also finds time to be chairman of Business Leaders Organized for Catholic Schools (BLOCS), which last year raised $10 million to help put 5,500 children though Catholic schools. ![]()
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