article_snippet: The shamed newsreader schmoozed with guests at a casino in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, in the hope of scraping together $1million to prop up the Mater Dei Catholic prep school in nearby Middletown.
article_snippet: I did not know it then, but it was the last degree I’d ever earn.
article_snippet: it’s a wonderful school, and it should be open for a long time, for everybody'. '
article_snippet: Singing for Fundraisers supper: Then $10,000-a-year school has said $10,000-a-year school needs at extra $1million to keep the doors open .
highlights_snippet: Williams showed up at casino dinner to try to save Mater Dei Catholic Prep .
  
highlights_snippet: Williams graduated from school, which now charges $10,000 a year, in 1977 .
  