Donors send Haiti earthquake survivor to St. Benedict's Prep in Newark
Published: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 9:00 AM
With the Newark skyline behind him, 20 year old Ralph Alphoncio Jean pauses and looks back at his teammates during track team practice on the St. Benedict's campus. Ralph is a survivor of the earthquakes in Haiti and served as an interpreter for American doctors in Haiti. He has entered St. Benedict's as a sophomore.NEWARK -- Scribbled in blue ink across his left hand were the words, "keep ur eyes on me."
He says it’s not a prayer, but a request to God.
But when Ralph Alphoncio Jean’s house in Haiti started shaking, he prayed. He prayed God would keep his family safe as he walked his mother and pregnant sister out of devastated Port-au-Prince.
And he prayed he would one day visit America.
Jean, 20, doesn’t like to talk about the earthquake that ruined his home, or the man he knew who died in an aftershock while protecting his son, or the woman he saw outside whose foot nearly fell from her leg. Instead he prefers to quickly rattle off the classes he’ll be
