Each student who went on Potter’s Clay in the spring of 1989 brought back two rocks from Mexico. Usually they return with memorabilia like trinkets from the village children or blankets from Ensenada. But in 1989 they bore rocks gathered in the hills outside Ensenada.
On the morning of March 27, 1989, Lisa Bebout, Patty Hallock, Megan Harter, Alan Voorman, and Garth Weedman piled into Alan’s car to travel to a nearby village. The students were part of a team doing construction work on a dilapidated house. As they traveled to the work site, an oncoming car suddenly jumped the divider and landed on Alan’s car. The two Potter’s Clay cars behind Alan screeched to a halt. Students piled out to rescue their friends as ambulances rushed to the scene. Soon afterwards, the injured students were on their way to local hospitals.
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