Matthew Holbert
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Matthew is the youngest son of Glenn Holbert & Cynthia Williams-Holbert of Vacaville, CA
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Matthew is a senior in high school in the fall of 2010. Matthew plays the piano, he is a very good baseball infielder and he is very interested in photography. Matthew would like to go to college and study Biology.
Matthew Holbert, was recently accepted at Tuskegee University where he will study Biology. There is probably not a better HBCU for him to attend and study Biology. The home of Dr. George Washington Carver.
Matt lives in Vacaville, CA., and was born and raised in California. He has never attended a "Bayou Classic", "Florida Classic", "Tuskegee - Morehouse Classic" or "Tiger Paw Classic". He will get to enjoy the great bands, fanfare and the great HBCU college experience. Congratulations Matt!
Matt was also accepted into Cal Poly University, not too far from his home. He is considering going there too.
Matt has taken a real interest in Photography, taking a course in photography in his Sr. year. He is learning all the old methods of developing pictures, working with real film and taking photos in black and white.
March 31, 2011 - Yesterday, my grandson, Matthew Holbert, passed through Baton Rouge and we had a chance to have dinner. My 17 year old grandson, Ryland Gardner also had dinner with us.
Matt is 17 years old and is about to graduate from high school in Vacaville, CA. Each year, a California businessman, Mr. Willie B. Adkins, sponsors a bus tour of several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) for several students from the Fairfield, Vacaville area. This year there were 20 kids with 5 adults. There were 9 boys and 11 girls on the tour. They took a flight from Oakland, CA to Birmingham, AL and visited Alabama State U., then on to Miles College and Tuskeegee U.. They also took the Civil Rights Tour in Birmingham. They traveled too Atlanta, GA to visit The King Center, Clarke Atlanta U. and Spelman/Morehouse Colleges. They also visited Jackson State U. and Tougaloo College in Mississippi. Today they will visit Southern U, Xavier U. and Dillard U. here in Louisiana. While in New Orleans, they will take the Katrina Tour and eat dinner on a riverboat. They fly back home on Friday, April 1st.
Matthew has already been accepted at Cal Poly, where he would like to study Biology. He has also been accepted at Tuskeegee U., but after touring Morehouse U. in Atlanta, he has applied to them for acceptance.