At ceremony at the Kimmel Center, Temple Trustee Bill Cosby received a Marian Anderson Award for his humanitarian efforts. Cosby gave special thanks to Gavin White, longtime Temple track and football coach, whom Cosby credited with giving him an athletic scholarship to Temple. "I got a 500. After they saw my 300, they loaned me 200," joked Cosby. At Temple, "I was in remedial English, remedial math. Remedial swimming." In a moment of seriousness, Cosby said the award "means an awful lot to me. This is my hometown. Some of the people in this room I grew up with."