At New York City's Aquinas High School, helping the needy is both a commitment
and a lesson. The students learn that . . .
Twice a week after classes, 20 girls bound out of Aquinas High School in the
South Bronx, across Crotona Avenue, and through the front door of the Thorpe
Family Residence, their white blouses and pleated skirts clashing with their
hip-hop hairdos and Fu Manchu fingernails. They swing… more
