Mom of Bullied Fremd Grad Wills $50,000 to Scholarship Fund

Four decades after her son was bullied at Fremd High School, John Trout’s mother is able to make a difference along with members of the 1975 graduating class.

Reports Eric Peterson for the Daily Herald:

Heartbroken she was unable to stop the incessant bullying her son endured at Palatine’s Fremd High School 40 years ago, Jeanne Trout found a new peace in the last months of her life after members of the Class of ‘75 committed to fighting such injustice in her son’s name.

Trout’s late son was the inspiration for the new John Trout Anti-Bullying Scholarship at Fremd. And when Jeanne herself died earlier this month at age 94, she left $50,000 to help perpetuate the scholarship for years to come.

Jeanne was a retired Fremd faculty member -- and one of its first special-education teachers. Her specialization came after her son, John, was notoriously bullied while attending the school.

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