Geena Davis receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2019 Governors Awards

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Geena Davis receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2019 Governors Awards

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I don't post often yet I just came across YouTube footage of Geena Davis receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2019 Governors Awards last Sunday.

Her Oscar win is my favorite all-time Cinderella win. I didn't learn until years later her parents graduated from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky during The Depression. That's just down the road from me.

I've even gone online & found photographs of Geena attending college reunions with her parents (her mom & dad in 2001 & her dad in 2006 after her mother's passing).

Berea College is for people of limited financial means, who work their way through school.

It is quite the realization of The Great American Dream to graduate from Berea College during The Depression and then watch your daughter win an Academy Award fifty years later.
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