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Men on a Mission inducts members
Dominion High School in Sterling honored the newest members of its Men on a Mission program in an induction ceremony Nov. 11.
The program, which began in 2005, is part of the school’s efforts to close the achievement gap by targeting black students. The program’s components include goal-setting, silent sustained reading and development of life skills.
Students wear a required uniform each Wednesday, participate in breakfast success forums, attend quarterly college visits, and have the option of participating in a leadership academy on Saturdays.
This year’s induction honored 13 young men.
The guest speaker was Wilfred Kirkaldy, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., who led his high school basketball team and was off to a promising start at college playing on West Virginia University’s NCAA tournament men’s basketball team when he was in a career-ending car accident in 1992 that left him an amputee. Kirkaldy went on to finish college and become the National Basketball Association's player relations coordinator.
Dominion’s Men on a Mission program has supported its participants’ accomplishment of a 97 percent attendance rate and a 65 percent drop in failing grades since 2005-2006.
This year’s inductees are:
Kareem Abu-Ghannem, Jordan Chinn, Joshua Dickerson, Ter-Zahn Fenner, Foster Jones, Jefferson Mendoza, Anthony Muse, Garrett Robinson, Robert Silva III, Jerson Solano, Damon Toppin, Alfred Wormi and Alex Young.
-- Elizabeth Coe
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