New York Times
April 22, 1996
Don Terry - "Envisioning Peace and Rememberance in Courtyard"

Excerpts:

"Loss is one subject that most of the students are Du Sable High School are forced to study long before the ninth grade. Situated in a weary section of the South Side, the school is surrounded by gangs, guns and ghosts of family and friends snatched away by violence of the streets..."

"It is a refuge from the noisy and dangerous concrete world just outside the schoolhouse door. And it is a living biology lab, where the value of life is taught hands on, and where the big city youths can get closer to nature without leaving the neighborhood..."