Teens Pay Tribute to President Gordon B. Hinckley
I was touched by Michael Otterson’s tribute to President Gordon B. Hinckley in the Washington Post – Newsweek “On Faith” column:
“On Monday morning this week, 12 hours after the passing of the 97-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Gordon B. Hinckley, an extraordinary and spontaneous thing happened.
“Young teenagers in Salt Lake City began showing up for school that day, dressed not in their usual jeans and winter clothing, but in their “Sunday best.” Young men sat in classes in white shirts and ties, suits and coats.
“Thousands of them did this, with no prompting from parents or other adults and to the surprise of teachers. The idea, it seems, started with a few and then spread at unbelievable speed through text messaging, child to child. This was their way of showing respect to a man seven times their age and several generations their senior. Such was the power of this one extraordinary leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to touch the lives of ordinary people.
“I think President Hinckley would have liked the spontaneity and simplicity of that gesture….”
Read the entire tribute.
A comment posted by a reader of Michael’s tribute says “This was not just in Utah but I witnessed high school students dressed up for school in Arizona also. I would expect this happened in some way all over the world.”
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It wasn’t just SLC. My Home Teacher is a teacher at one of the High Schools here in Idaho. He said most of the LDS students at his school also dressed in their Sunday clothes.
It wasn’t just teens, either. I know some adults who caught on to the idea and dressed in Sunday Best, also.
Oregon students also
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