Troy University students on Tuesday were challenged to consider
their own legacy by the teacher who leads an after-school
program at a Tennessee middle school that gained national
attention for its lasting tribute to the victims of the
Holocaust. Sandra Roberts, an eighth-grade language arts teacher
at Whitwell (Tenn.) Middle School, was on the Troy Campus on
Tuesday to discuss “The Paperclip Project,” which began in 1998
as an after-school study program to examine the Holocaust.
Roberts delivered lectures to area middle school students during
the morning and to TROY students, faculty and staff on Tuesday
afternoon. A public lecture was scheduled for the Johnson Center
for the Arts in downtown Troy Tuesday night. “You are the future
leaders of this community, your home communities or other
communities around our country,” Roberts told the audience
gathered in the Trojan Center Theatre. “What will your legacy
be? What will people say that you champion? What is it that you
are passionate about? In your lifetime