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I am writing to thank our community for its generous support of an educational adventure for eight Rappahannock County high school students from March 1-4.
The Curriculum Enrichment Committee, the Lion’s Club and the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community donated money so that the students could fly to Mira Loma, Calif, and see “Rumble in the Mountain” performed. They had all been performers in the original drama created by Rappahannock students under my guidance three years ago. “Rumble” was written in Ms. Cummin’s Creative Writing class to support the first year of RCHS’ Peer Mediation Program.
Jurapa Valley High School’s principal Jan Moorehouse learned of the play through an article in Teaching Tolerance magazine and asked for the scripts. Then she invited me and “one or two” students to come see their version of the play.
The Federal government furnished some funds through the “Drug Free Schools ’ program. When I put out the call to our community, within two days there was enough funding to take all the students who had been in the play, save one who had other obligations.
What a remarkable experience we had. We saw the characters and story that had come to life on the RCHS stage acted out by strangers, who seemed completely familiar. The Advanced Acting class performed the play six times on Thursday in front of over 1,800 students
. The next day, the RCHS students (Daniel Ramey, Jennifer Bywaters, Katrina Smoot, Kent Switzer, Lacey Adams, Kate May and Cara Levick) paired up to conduct a drawing exercise in the steps of Conflict Resolution and a discussion about the play throughout the school.
I was continually proud of their courage, openness, kindness and intelligence. That evening, “Rumble” was preformed two more times for the community each time followed by a discussion.
Jurupa Valley High School has 2,700 students, about 48 percent white, 40 percent Hispanic, eight percent African
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