In the Colorado foothills, Conifer is a small, tight-knit community. Most high school students grew up together and most of their parents know each other, and many of them graduated from the same high school their children are currently attending.
This community spirit encouraged Conifer High School’s upper classes and staff to come together to spend over 1,500 hours on a special project that would bring joy to one of their classmates.
According to CBS Denver, RJ Sampson was a senior who asked a simple question in the year he needed to graduate from high school and begin the next chapter of his life. He didn’t give it much thought, he kindly asked when the school would turn it into a braille yearbook.
RJ loved his high school and had a great experience at Conifer, enjoying a great group of friends and participating in a variety of activities.
However, RJ is visually impaired and unable to read his yearbooks, let alone look back as he nears the end of his senior year.
RJ’s teacher, Leslie Thompson, desperately wanted to make the braille yearbook a reality. However, publishing standard directories was already a colossal undertaking. With the help of the Yearbook and Promotion Committee, students and staff spend over 1,500 hours working exceptionally hard to create their own RJ Braille Yearbook.
The school gathered in the gymnasium to present the Royal King with a braille yearbook on the occasion of his senior year, a moment he will surely never forget!
