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June 20, 2013
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Grant Grimard, Ann Arbor, 2013

Taking Flight

Pioneer's Grant Grimard

by Eve Silberman

"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

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