Rollings students (mostly on the left side of photo) stand at the Riverside Church in Manhattan beside kids from the Bronx. The groups came together for a Heritage and Diversity Concert.
Rollings Middle School of the Arts students and faculty Nicholas Loe, William Wallace, Lonnie Russell, Anna Ridenour, Shanae Praileau, Jamaal Singleton, Jessie Hethcox, Jensen Stauffer, Sara Grant, Colleen West, Rebecca Bruffey, Jacobi Brooker, Candice Walker, Peyton Lehew, Eric vander Meyden, Clark Boykin, Assistant Principal Camilla Pinckney and Olivia Kline gather around the bull statue on Wall Street in New York City.
The kids from the Bronx and the youths from Summerville came from different backgrounds. But when they got together earlier this month, they quickly found a common key.
“Music is the universal language,” said Tim Thompson, music director at Rollings Middle School of the Arts, after leading a group of piano core students on a Presidents Day weekend bus trip to The Big Apple.
While visiting New York, 15 eighth-graders and a dozen chaperons saw the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Wall Street, Rockefeller Center and ground zero. They took in a Broadway performance of “Mary Poppins” and feasted on New York-style pizza.
It was an amazing experience, said the students, some of whom have relatives in the New York area.
While the sights were phenomenal and educational, the real purpose for the trip was not tourism, but a cultural exchange, Thompson said.
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