They're all good kids. In the principal's office he meets with Lester Voorhees, whom he watched grow up. Voorhees is now coordinator of student activities at the high school and is developing a student-leadership team. He already has been to Middlesex County College, Rutgers, and two hospitals, and now wonders about support from Epps. He is to play basketball with friends he knows from his thrice-weekly games.
Sneakers squeak on the floor as the players stop short and run up and down the hardwood court.
Everybody works up a sweat, and everybody has fun. It's the kind of therapy I need. The Robeson School dedicated its gymnasium to Epps in 1987, who had been a member and president of the New Brunswick Board of Education. He calls Natasha Epps, no relation, a student who is a member and treasurer of the Intercede Investment Club, to discuss an upcoming meeting. The elder Epps, with the assistance of students who would be involved, wrote an innovative grant proposal to the Presbyterian Church.