Diversity Day at Hose Elementary School
Junior Earl Rooks sits in a crowd of students at the Hose Elementary School Diversity Day. Wabash men from Unidos por Sangre, International Students Association, and the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies partnered to put on skits that helped the young people understand the value of diversity.
Senior Charles Jackson talks with students at Diversity Day.
Taz Ahmed, Emmanuel Aouad, and Earl Rooks introduce themselves at Hose School's Diversity Day.
Taz Ahmed plays a riff on an African drum and lets students from Hose School take turns making music on the drum.
Earl Rooks keeps the beat as Emmanuel Aouad plays some jazz on his tenor saxophone.
Wabash men listen as a student from Hose Elementary School teaches them how to say "Hello" in Korean.
Bolivian freshman Luis Quiriga teaches students the game of futball, which they know in America as soccer.
Khondoker Haider watches as a Hose student takes a swat with his cricket bat.
Earl Rooks challenges some Hose students with questions about what they'd learned during the Diversity Day presentations. Those with good answers got Wabash basketball practice jerseys.
Hose student Gabriella Hesse teachers her fellow students (and the Wabash guys) how to say hello in Japanese.
Retiring Hose Elementary School Principal John Tidd had no problem picking up the game of cricket. The veteran teacher and principal knocked two balls "out of the gym."
Charles Jackson talks with Hose students from Sheryl Starnes' third grade class after the Diversity Day presentation.