News & Events 2003-2004

Project PRIDE Returns to Blair

As part of Blair’s Enrichment program, Project PRIDE (Promoting Responsibility in Drug Education) returned to campus on Thursday, April 15, 2004. PRIDE is sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Its speakers are people currently incarcerated for crimes associated with alcohol and/or drugs who volunteer to tell their stories in hopes of preventing others from making similar mistakes.

Blair hosted this group for the first time in April 2001 and heard from two male inmates, including Kevin, a young man who graduated from Bucknell, lived in Hoboken and worked in NYC, and whose one evening of playing drinking games led to an alcoholic blackout; during the blackout, Kevin climbed into his car, drove north on a southbound road, and killed several people. Those at Blair who attended the original Project PRIDE program are still affected by Kevin’s story. This year, Blair hosted four inmates (two male and two female) and were once again moved by their stories and the messages they hoped to leave with our community.

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