Proving graciousness has nothing to do with age, the student body at first-year high school Arbor View raised nearly $1,100 in two minutes in its Cash in a Flash fundraiser held in May at a spring assembly for Dawn Prendes, the wife of Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Henry Prendes, who was slain in February.

The idea for the two-minute fundraiser was built around the goal of raising money for a college fund for Prendes' two daughters -- Kylee and Brooke. And the Arbor View Letterman's Club made good use of its first act of philanthropy.