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A company has paid for all the children of its 66 workers lost on 9/11 to go to college. On Sept. 11, 2001, 66 men and women who worked for the investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill & Partners on the 104th floor in the World Trade Center lost their lives.
In the days following, the company pledged to set up a foundation to pay college tuition for all 76 children of their fallen colleagues. At last check, 54 young men and women have had their college tuition paid, with 22 still eligible.
The 54 who are now attending or have attended college have gone to every sort of school imaginable — from Stanford to Notre Dame to community colleges and technical institutes.
The youngest child eligible was born six weeks after September 11.
