Oregon college students give MLK Day of service at Portland’s Roosevelt High School

January 19, 2012

Rake in hand, Deondrae Rhone looked over his shoulder at Roosevelt High School, where he graduated 2 1/2 years ago. He could easily imagine the message that about 800 collegians delivered Monday with their day of service on the North Portland campus.

“It will make a big impression, especially when the Roosevelt students find out who did it, that it was a lot of college students who actually were here,” said Rhone, 20, a 2009 Roosevelt graduate and a junior at Portland State University. “It will inspire them in their academics.”