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[music] Mooja Jeong: When I sing, I feel so happy,
I have wings, I can fly.
[singing]
Dr. Eric Johnson: She has a real powerful connection between her vocal technique and
her musical soul.
Dr. Rich Holly: Students like Moonja and others who are international students need support
in order to come to school here at Northern Illinois University so it’s a wonderful
thing for us to be able to get those students to come here and we really do need the help
of donors to make it happen.
Jeong: I have to make sound from deep inside.
[singing]
Johnson: Voices that musical and that strong inspire everyone else around them as well.
Lynne Waldeland: She performed and it took peoples breathe away. I mean, before the applause
there was a moment of sort of stunned silence when she finished.
Jeong: I want to believe I have a little gift for music.
Waldeland: I always feel good about being able to help a student be in our programs
at Northern but when you get to meet somebody like that who brings so much, its all the
more gratifying.
Anne Hardy: The students we see everyday are touched by the kindness and generosity of
the donors.
Jeong: When I heard about the news that I can have a scholarship that supports me for
a whole year, it was really hard to believe.
Hardy: So many students say to me too, when I graduate I’m going to give back.
Dr. Orna Arania: You realize that there is nothing else that this person is supposed
to be doing.
Jeong: This school gave me a miracle.