"At Risk and Gifted", page 1, Coalfield Education Endeavor

"At Risk"

These are the students that School Counselors have determined are "at risk" of not completing their basic academic schooling or have a penchant for troublesome behavior. The Coalfield Education Endeavor has experimented with several high school students by taking an interest in them and helping them to travel to various historical places and meet new people who share a concern for the student's welfare.

Several of the trips have been to Gettysburg over a period of 3 years and have yielded positive results. At Gettysburg the students met with several local people who gave them encouragement and many people who live over 8 hours beyond Gettysburg who gave their counsel as well.

The first meeting in April 1999 at Rummel's Farm Gettysburg
Jennie with Nikki and Amy in the middle of the Battlefield

Jack walks with the Girls in one of the original lanes

The Girls on top of one of the outcrops in the Devil's Den

The mid-air collision in the museum

The close of the adventure with the students.
Jack's family and Dan and Alice Hoffman owners of the modern day farm.

This was in April of 1999, a test run with Amy and Nikki, with the help of board member Jack Richardson and his family and the owners of the Rummel's Farm at the East Cavalry Battlefield. The two girls were welcomed, and treated with the greatest of kindness and respect. They really enjoyed the farm, the battlefield in Gettysburg proper and seeing things like the two bullets in the photo.

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