Repaying Ripon; Jarreau to Perform Benefit Concert to Thank College for All of Its Help

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It is, perhaps, an unlikely love affair between a central city Milwaukee kid turned Grammy-winning song stylist and a small, rural private college in the town that birthed the Republican Party.

But Al Jarreau has never forgotten his debt to Ripon College. On Saturday, Jarreau Class of '62 will return to his alma mater to give a benefit concert for the school's scholarship endowment.

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Repaying Ripon; Jarreau to Perform Benefit Concert to Thank College for All of Its Help

"I love that school," Jarreau said in a phone interview. "They gave me some valuable readin', writin' and 'rithmetic. And held my hand through a lot of it because I was such an average, below- average student, really, and that school just took me under their wing and just kind of made a special project out of...

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