A Cosby Surprise

Jet, May 29, 2000

Bill Cosby, who recently delivered the commencement address at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, surprised the school's president during the graduation ceremony by offering $100,000 to the college for a student scholarship. The scholarship will support an F&M student who goes on to study education at Columbia University Teachers College, the alma mater of Cosby's late son, Ennis, who was killed by an assailant in 1997 as he was changing his car's flat tire.