Even After Death, One Columbine Victim Sets Example For NJ Students
By Mike Dougherty
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (CBS) -- "Change through kindness" is the message students at a Catholic high school in South Jersey heard today. It was the story of Rachel Scott, a girl killed in the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in 1999.
The powerful program at Bishop Eustace Prep took students through the life of young Rachel Scott as she worked to make a difference in the world through small gestures of kindness.
"How will you be remembered?" asked the presenter today.
Bishop Eustace junior Caroline Fish says she won't soon forget the lessons she learned.
"Compassion, and to just include everyone," Fish says. "And to see what she did, how the little things that she did affected people's lives so much, and it really made a big difference."
Bishop Eustace guidence counselor Liz Cranston, who has been mentoring students in the school's "Friends of Rachel Club," says the assembly also hit home for staffers at the school.
"I had a faculty member come right at the end of the presentation, very teary-eyed, and just thanking us for having the program come to Bishop Eustace," Cranston said.
There will be an evening program tonight at 7pm in Crusader Hall at Bishop Eustace, open to the public.
