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Friday, November 4, 2011

Taylor Swift Calls Alpharetta College Student Her Hero

Milton High graduate James O'Dwyer will be seen on nick@nite Sunday as a 2011 HALO Award winner, and is the Friday, Nov. 4 Greatest Person of the Day for Huffington Post.

Taylor Swift has a hero, and he's an Alpharetta, GA, college student who started his own charity to help victims of tornadoes that swept through Alabama and Georgia on April 27. James O'Dwyer was honored in the 2011 HALO Awards, being presented on nick@nite Sunday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. O'Dwyer also has been chosen as the Huffington Post Greatest Person of the Day for Friday, Nov. 4. O'Dwyer was a college freshman at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL on April 27 when a devastating tornado formed in Alabama. The university was closed, and students sent home when they could make it. But by the time he was back in Alpharetta, O'Dwyer knew he wanted to do something to get aid back to the victims left behind. So within a few days he and …

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