Yet the faculty managed to shepherd the students through smoke and chaos and find places to keep them from harm.
More than 650 community leaders volunteer in arranging free housing and shepherd the students through a minimum of three months' training in the country.
Mr. García shepherded the students through the workday and arranged field trips to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., and other cultural pit stops.
Parent volunteers, part of a program call Operation Safe Passage, guide the trip to Richard T. Crane Tech Prep high school in brightly colored vests and ponchos, shepherding the students onto a city bus, through a transfer, then to the school gates.
Mr. Lang persuaded a roster of high-profile New Yorkers — among them the financier Felix G. Rohatyn James Bushh, a nephew of President George Bush and Reuben Markk, the president of the Colgate-Palmolive Company — to sponsor public-school classes by depositing $300,000 into foundation-operated annuities and personally shepherding the students, just as vigilant parents might do.
In one shot, a uniformed officer in round shades and a narrow tie yanked on high school sophomore Walter Gadsden's sweater while a German shepherd lunged toward the student's stomach with mouth open, fangs bared.
Sheep management: a handbook for the shepherd and student.
But what gave me an even greater thrill was thinking back to all those I had met on the way – the olive gatherers and tomato farmers, the shepherds and students, the ghosts of soldiers and sultans past – and knowing I was only one more traveller who had trodden this ancient way.
We shepherd students through the pipeline from high school student, to college scholar, to career professional to bring Richmond students through higher education and back to Richmond.
The third-year seminar helps shepherd students through the transition to dissertation research; however, it is not a substitute for an adviser but rather a complement.
In 1973, Li established the MIT Innovation Center, a program designed to shepherd students through the process of innovation, from developing an idea to engineering a prototype to marketing a product.
