c. 2014 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WELLSTON, Mo. (RNS) They filed into the gym January 12 for an assembly about graduation and applying for colleges—an intentionally vague description that wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for a senior class.
Instead, the seniors at Normandy High School learned that full-tuition scholarships would be given to 11 of them in honor of Michael Brown, who graduated just days before he was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer.
