By Angel Studevent Staff Writer
Meli Zikakis lives in Birmingham but wanted to share with King principal Dr. Deborah Jenkins the story about the kindness of King student Mark Langly.
She wrote in an email that while accompanying her mother to the Kroger pharmacy, she noticed that she was missing one of her diamond earrings.
“Now, I have not a single thing of monetary value,” she wrote, “but I have my family, which is of course more valuable, and my mother had given my husband the money to buy these (earrings) a few years ago. Now she is ill with cancer and at 87 ... losing an earring was too upsetting.”
When Zikakis went back to pick up the prescription, she spoke with the store manager and explained to him why she was so sad. In her email, she said immediately called out to Langly to tell him to keep an eye out for her earring.
Langly said he had found it and turned it into a supervisor. She began to cry and tried to offer him a reward.
“I asked Mark how old he was and where he was in school,” Zikakis wrote. “He told me he went to MLK, which told me that it was no surprise that his moral compass was pointed in the right direction. Your school has a great reputation, no small feat!
“I asked him to do a favor for me and go home and tell his mother that he had done something nice for someone else’s mom today!”