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Show A8 The Salt Lake Tribune Columbine Grads Focus On the Future A Year Later, Not All Wounds Have Healed at Thurston High aped arms around each effort to allow ar the Columbine Each in their own way, Teresa ribbon on their gowns CIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD,Ore. — Teresa ashed Friday by a q who upheld a federal ju school district policy that barred an ornments on graduation gowns. But Columbine seniors were wrest back the intimacy their Miltonberger’s bangs cover the scar where a bullet pierced the side of her head. She no longer has to wear a hockeyhelmet when heartened when news filtered back that graduates at high schools around the state this school had lost. The proceedings wereintendedforthe audience of family and friends, the speeches ere weekend bons at their werepersonal. The to cele! years at Columbine. quic Columbine’s students on Satur Lisa Kreutz, who was in a wheelchair. ValeenSchnurr wasfeeling )per enoughto join her class mates in the seats. Every move the three made was wildly cheered ren Townsend's family rep: d her on Saturday, When Students in the audience snorted and snickered through long speeches. Teens rece their diplomas. then whooy the crowd. Finally, laughin, ad to the four m send’s family not out of place The morning's festivities beg traditionally. The senior class en ers of Town. forth. Her mother, Dawn Anna, held up her daughter's gown andgoldcollar tered from the top of t i amphitheater, slowly {ili cement steps to the strains of signifying her membership in the National Honor Society. Town: send’s sister and two brothersac shooting CONYERS, Ga. — Students re turning to Heritage High School onSaturday to collect books, bags andjackets they left during last week's shootingsaid they encoun tered aneerily calm campus It was the first time students were allowed back since Thurs day, whena sophomore beganfir. ing a rifle into a commons knowing spital. from the was released The only stu- area. ray that contributed to their un- ease It was weird, knowing what happened just 48 hours ago. Fawn DeRosia, 17, said after get that there was somebody in your schoolshooting,” said Alexis Diamond, a 16-year-old sophomore ‘They don't want to look at said the redheaded 17-year“Because then the whole They look at meandtheyrelive Fd Andrieski/The Associated Press Lisa Kreutz, in a wheelchair, is presented her diploma by teacher Barb Monseu at the GreenwoodVillage, Colo., ceremony. cepted her diploma andthe students erupted in cheers as the Townsends saluted them and flashed “I love you” in signlan guage The Shoels family did not attend, saying their grieving had not yet finished References were madeto the shootings. Principal Frank DeAn- ting herbooks. now I'm shaking right gelis saidof the dead, “Their lives were cut down in time too short Their lives were full of courage and hope and enthusiasm. Never tims, Cania Culleased Saturday when ear-old Kip Kinkel pulled a semiautomaticrifle from his trench coat andstarted firing. Two students were killed and 22 others wounded before Kinkel from others who weren't shot to der the rug. But she couldn't doit We wereliving with it 24-seven. Wecouldn't putit out of our heads. We had all the sears and stuff to look at every day.” Far from sweeping it under the rug, Betina has been flying aroundthe nation promoting guncontrol legislation. Sponsored by Sarah Brady's group school administration know that they wanted the dayto focus on Rodham Clinton at the White House for a Mother’s Day pledge against gun violence. the future. her thigh. in myprayers easily for senior Bonnie Jones, who described her school’s mood as very melancholy I'mstill angry.” Jonessaid af- ing students said ‘I doforgive him,” Cullins said at a brief news conference. sitting school’s reopening Mondaywill! beatimeof tears, hugs and consolation “I'll keep him was the shooting, she felt pressure sweep the painful memories un- among the survivors. In addition to the bullet that slammed into her skull, another grazed the back of her head and a third drove into this. School administrators have beside her mother. 1998, Teresa teria at Thurston High School Betina said that when classes resumed at Thurston a week after was wrestled to the floor. forget that they loved us as much ated for a bullet wound in the k of her Seated in a wheelchair with a gold Winnie the Pooh bear on her lap. a gift from her pastor. Cullins said she has no animosity toward Thomas Solomon Jr., the 15-year old suspect chargedin the shoot thesituation.” On May 21, eating breakfastin the samecafe- “Most of us still have the bul- as we loved them.” But the seniors had let the Understanding didn’t come so Hospital where Studentscaid that investigators had left bags on classroomfloors and coats on chairs. general disar Betina Lynn, a 19-year-old se- lets inside us,” she said. thing comes back for them One of the v woundingsix Therewassort of an e riness that came overyou, victims working to regain what theylost. friends she sat with in the cafeteria a year ago don’t come around me,” old. Students Make ‘Melancholy’ Trip to Campusto Retrieve Belongings THE ASSOCIATED PRI ESS in a string of school shootings are stubbornly back at school every day. any more. cast. smiling. She was flanked by day acted like teen-agers again Thestudent speakers told inside jokes about favorite teach class cut-ups A beach ball passed hand to hand through the become just one Butlife is hardly normal. The lyin her body wearing the ribceremonies bouyed by the presence of three woundedclassmates. Jeanna Park sat on the stage withher right arm in asling and her left foot in a Perhaps the most encouraging sign of their wellness was that and other survivors of what has nior, counts herself luckythat the bullet that caught her in the back missed her spine by half an inch before coming torest permanent- she leaves the house and she’s Little seemed to dampen the teens high spirits. They were was teachers and parents, and head out for the parties crowd. Sunday, May 23, 1999 fi friends.meted from d casual acquaint- § Continued From A-1 agenda NATION ter collecting papers she needed for a class. “This kid came in and took away thelast day of myse- nior year. | worked 13 years for madefinal exams optional. Many anticipate the Handgun ‘Teresa was not expected to be Control, Betina and her mother even joined first lady Hillary ‘It’s so awful andit’s so forev- To look at her now, smiling ina Winnie the Pooh swea hardto believe that a er,” Betina said. “It’s not like the sive careunit, her head so horribly swollen fromthe bullet that still rests in her brain that her and you cry.” lay comatosein a hospital inten- mother had to examine her hands andfeet to recognizeher. After months of rehabilitation, Teresa is back. As for memories of the shooting. shehas none. The bullet in her brain sawtothat I’m not a miracle, but I made it,” said Teresa movies. 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