June 20, 2013
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Taking Flight
Pioneer's Grant Grimard
"Man, it was hard," says Grant Grimard, nineteen. The former Pioneer High basketball captain broke with the pack after graduation in 2011: Instead of college, he joined the nonprofit City Year program, where he worked with middle schoolers in the poverty-plagued South Bronx. Getting up at 6 to catch his subway train, he worked 12-hour days, tutoring math and
