“Do all the good you can.”
~ John Wesley
I recently spoke to a friend who is very involved in his former high school. His involvement includes raising money for the school, organizing events, mentoring students and more. However, one project with which he has been involved really caught my attention. He and a handful of other alumni decided to collect as many yearbooks from the school as possible, scan them and make them available to the school’s alumni online. His alma mater had its roots in Cuba, so they have located many of those yearbooks – all more than 50 years old. This project has enabled people to find not only themselves, but also parents, uncles and grandparents. Just a couple of weeks ago, an alumnus traveling in Scotland met a woman whose father had graduated from the school in Cuba. With a few clicks on his phone, the alumnus was able to pull up a yearbook from nearly 80 years ago and show it to this woman in Scotland. I have no doubt that there are more stories like that – made possible by a small group of determined men who could not foresee the good that their effort would do.
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