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opposite page: David Goodman addresses students of all ages; above: Brianna B. '15 reads from the Living Timeline; right, top: 1st-grader Gus P. reads the program; right, bottom: The 3rd- grade chorus and the entire Trevor community sing "This Little Light of Mine," accompanied by Scott Reisinger on the banjo. Changing the World … One 2nd Grader at a Time Jean Kosky, 2nd Grade Head Teacher and Science curriculum coordinator at the lower School, shared her students' reactions to the assembly: Our 2nd-grade class was so moved by the 'big kids' ' obvious commitment to this morning's messages. ey came back to class with so many questions about the new ideas and historical events they heard. Even if they didn't understand everything … the second graders definitely understood the emotional and social implications. We had to postpone our science lesson this afternoon so we could discuss civil rights, Andrew Goodman, Martin Luther King, Jr.—the list is long. Looks like our January civil rights unit needs to be moved up! ank you to everyone involved for sparking this new level of engagement in our students. " " Mr. Goodman continued: My brother, Andrew Goodman, went to the place where you go to school now, and he believed strongly in this word "fair" and how our country has a vision around "fairness." But just because you have a vision, that doesn't mean that everything is perfect and everything is fair. My brother heard that in our great democracy, certain people couldn't vote because of the color of their skin. So he went and organized with a thousand other young adults to change that. And that's what social justice and fairness is about in terms of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. ose are three young men who weren't much older than the 12th graders here today. I hope as you get older you'll think about and feel in your heart what social justice is about. ank you for inviting me here, and for remembering the name Andrew Goodman. e Trevor students continued to honor andrew Goodman through words and song. e 7th- and 8th-grade chorus sang a beautiful rendition of "We Shall overcome," a song that became the anthem of the civil rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. e Trevor a cappella group performed touching performances of the folk song "Hold On" and Pete Seeger & Frances Taylor's "ose ree are on My Mind," blending tender melodies with haunting harmonies. one of the assembly highlights was the living Timeline, in which Upper School students memorialized the lives of andrew Goodman and James chaney from their births, to their civil rights activism, through their tragic deaths on June 21,1964. e final student read, "although they can no longer tell us their stories themselves, their actions still challenge us to think about what we are willing to do to assure the constitutional and human rights of all people." In another powerful performance, a group of high School students presented a choral reading of excerpts from Dr. Martin luther King, Jr.'s "letter from Birmingham Jail." e group proclaimed emphatically, " 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere!' " at the conclusion, Mr. reisinger returned to the microphone. My friends, we're all in this together, every single one of us. All of us here at Trevor are in this together. And what one person does affects everyone else in the community. We're connected to one another; we have responsibility to one another. It's an act of courage for you to go beyond who you are, to move beyond where you're comfortable. It's an act of courage when you see something isn't quite right—to stand up and try to make it right. Courage is something we're all called to. We can be courageous together— we can be courageous by understanding that we have a responsibility toward one another—that we are, in fact, in a mutual relationship. Not every one of us has to do something as courageous as what Andy Goodman did. We can be courageous in our own community; we can look at the person next to us and see them as a real person. Courage may translate in our lives to seeing something wrong and standing up to it. Courage may be seeing someone getting picked on or not accepted, and coming forward and saying, "Be my friend." Courage for our Upper Schoolers may be getting beyond your comfort zone, figuring out what you're passionate about, and putting it on the line. Working hard and committing to something other than ourselves. at's what Dr. King is talking about, and that's what Andrew Goodman's life was all about. 2 1 T r e v o r D ay S c h o o l n W I N T e r 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5

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