You have single-handedly saved prom
2013年10月29日"You have single-handedly saved prom for countless girls," Christina Luwisch, senior class president at Cabrini High School, told the senior from Washington D.C.West, an 18-year-old who attends Georgetown Day School, has become a heroine nationally after her simple gesture to help Hurricane Katrina victims turned into an outpouring of generosity: She wanted to collect a line wedding dress maybe as many as a hundred, she hoped.What she wound up with was 2,800 dresses enough to go to 10 ravaged high schools. And shoes. And handbags, jewelry and computers. And more.
The assembly to honor West, on the eve of the dance, turned into a collective outpouring of grief for loved ones lost, family members displaced, homes gone. As ceiling fans twirled, the Cabrini girls wiped tears away with the sleeves of their uniforms.Pig-tailed senior Katie Bourgeois told her classmates that she had bought her brown satin wedding dresses sweetheart the week before Katrina hit but she hadn’t thought to take it with her when she evacuated."It drowned in the flood," she said."It’s not the dresses," Cabrini Principal Yvonne Hrapmann reminded her charges. It’s about how "one thought, one gesture" could become a national cause.West said she just wanted to give the students a reminder of what it was like to feel normal again."The drive has really given the girls hope," West said. "They’ll be able to look back on prom as a point where they were just able to be 17- and 18-year-old girls and be able, in that moment, to forget about what’s going wrong."
West’s inspiration came, like so many genius ideas before it, amid the crowded racks of the fashion discounter Loehmann’s. West, the reigning Miss D.C. National Teenager, was taking a break from the stress of her winter finals to think ahead to the joys of spring and buying her own white flower dresses princess with bateau neckline."I was looking through all the sequins and the beads and the glitter, and I realized that in New Orleans so many girls wouldn’t feel that joy you feel at prom.all because of the devastation of Katrina," West recalled. "I thought I could help restore at least one of their high school traditions that they wouldn’t have otherwise."
The assembly to honor West, on the eve of the dance, turned into a collective outpouring of grief for loved ones lost, family members displaced, homes gone. As ceiling fans twirled, the Cabrini girls wiped tears away with the sleeves of their uniforms.Pig-tailed senior Katie Bourgeois told her classmates that she had bought her brown satin wedding dresses sweetheart the week before Katrina hit but she hadn’t thought to take it with her when she evacuated."It drowned in the flood," she said."It’s not the dresses," Cabrini Principal Yvonne Hrapmann reminded her charges. It’s about how "one thought, one gesture" could become a national cause.West said she just wanted to give the students a reminder of what it was like to feel normal again."The drive has really given the girls hope," West said. "They’ll be able to look back on prom as a point where they were just able to be 17- and 18-year-old girls and be able, in that moment, to forget about what’s going wrong."
West’s inspiration came, like so many genius ideas before it, amid the crowded racks of the fashion discounter Loehmann’s. West, the reigning Miss D.C. National Teenager, was taking a break from the stress of her winter finals to think ahead to the joys of spring and buying her own white flower dresses princess with bateau neckline."I was looking through all the sequins and the beads and the glitter, and I realized that in New Orleans so many girls wouldn’t feel that joy you feel at prom.all because of the devastation of Katrina," West recalled. "I thought I could help restore at least one of their high school traditions that they wouldn’t have otherwise."
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