Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher Jr., a BE Wall Street All-Star, is donating $50 million.

Alphonse Alphonse (älfôNs`), 1220–71, count of Poitiers and of Toulouse, brother of King Louis IX of France. By his marriage to the daughter of Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, he inherited Raymond's lands in 1249. "Buddy" Fletcher Fletcher may refer to one of the following: Ideas and companies

A fletcher makes arrows, see fletching.
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the graduate school of international relations of Tufts University, located in Medford, Massachusetts.

Jr., a BE Wall Street All-Star, is donating $50 million to further the cause of African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. students. The chairman of New York-based Fletcher Asset Management plans to award 50 fellowships in the amount of $50,000 each to scholars, writers, and artists. Other portions of his donation will provide environmental justice scholarships to Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where Fletcher, 38, is a graduate student

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Title Annotation:	National News; fellowships for African American students
Author:	Brown, Carolyn M.
Publication:	Black Enterprise
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Aug 1, 2004
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