Kevin Bacon Again at ‘Footloose’ Excessive Faculty 40 Years Later After Scholar Marketing campaign, Volunteer Efforts

It is a ultimate farewell for the scholar physique, as properly, who campaigned to carry the actor again as this might be their final yr within the college as properly. Within the fall, college students might be relocating to a brand new facility. What higher strategy to honor the constructing than by bringing again the star who put it on the nationwide map?

The scholars did not simply beg the well-known actor to come back again, both. They appealed to his philanthropy by providing up their very own, volunteering for his Six Levels charity forward of their very own promenade.

Based on the charity group Bacon based, the scholars helped construct 5,000 kits for these in want, which included greater than $865,000 in merchandise. The kits, that includes necessities for every day residing in addition to a suggestion for 3 months of counseling, might be distributed to 4 completely different organizations.

“After I first heard about this #BaconToPayson factor, I used to be like ‘Wow, that is loopy.’ However you have been all simply tireless, unrelenting in your want to have me return,” Bacon mentioned on Saturday. “And also you talked me into it!”

“I feel it is nice to see that sort of dedication to something,” he continued. “I additionally assume that it is superb the facility that this film has needed to simply sort of carry individuals collectively, and join on the essential concepts there are behind the film – you understand, standing as much as authority typically, and to being forgiving to people who find themselves not precisely the identical as you, and for standing up to your personal freedoms and your proper to precise your self, and for having compassion for different individuals.”

The Nebo Faculty District’s social web page has been following the efforts of scholars to carry Bacon again to Payson Excessive Faculty for greater than a yr now. Now, after the occasions of Saturday, all of them can formally say they’re only one diploma away from Kevin Bacon.

You possibly can take a look at the response just under from college students and college when Bacon praised them for all their inventive efforts, work on behalf of their neighborhood, after which dropped the bombshell on them that, “I am gonna come.”

On Saturday, the actor continued his reward of the scholar physique, telling them that they’d finished one thing actually particular, exhibiting their compassion for others “by turning what may very well be only a film star coming again to get a pat on the again, into one thing actually constructive.”

“Thanks a lot particularly to your dedication to giving again to your neighborhood and to the individuals you are sharing this planet with, and I am thrilled that we will be working right here collectively at present,” Bacon concluded his message earlier than serving to the scholars construct these 5,000 kits.

The college additionally awarded Bacon an honorary diploma for his “timeless efficiency and ceaselessly inspiration left at Payson Excessive Faculty,” with the actor quipping this was the one time he is ever seen his title on a diploma. He additionally scored a varsity jacket with “Footloose 1984” on the again.

After a profitable work day on Saturday and promenade that evening, Bacon and the scholars have actually earned the fitting to kick off their Sunday footwear and have a good time lots of laborious work and energy paid off.

See extra moments from the memorable weekend under.