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Michelle Mirelez Gene Seaman’s eyes filled as he told of what inspires him and his wife to give so much to students. “We were from Buffalo, New York. I had worked on a farm as a boy to do hard labor, and barely made it through high school. In fact, I flunked algebra and flunked geometry” Seaman said. Seaman shared his story after presenting the DMC Foundation with a $100,000 endowment check for The Gene and Ellen Seaman GED Scholarship on April 10 in the Health Science Building at the West Campus. The Seamans have been providing 5,000 a year…