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Dr. Marshall Receives Jefferson Award

By: Kate Kelly
CBS News

(CBS 5) Too many Bay Area funerals led a veteran San Francisco teacher to find a program that’s now a national model in violence prevention.

For almost 20 years, keeping youth alive and free has been the mantra for the Omega Boys Club, an academic, drug-free organization co-founded by Dr. Joseph Marshall in 1987. This former math teacher's focus is now on teaching life's lessons to boys and girls.

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