SADAKO/PAPER CRANES--Halfway there! (fwd)

["Sharon K. Oconnell" <skoconne@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>]

Thank you for all the gracious and interesting responses to our origami
paper crane request!  Teachers in 25 states have responded!  I think we
still have a very good chance of presenting the cranes to the people of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 50th anniversary of the bombing in August.
 
If you have a colleague, friend or relative in one of the following
states and would be kind enough to forward this message to them, we're
looking for respondents in these states:
 
AL, AZ, CT, DE, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, NE, NV, NJ, NM,
ND, OH, RI, SD, VT, WV, WY and DC.
 
Thank you again, AK, AR, CA, CO, FL, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MO, MT, NH, NY, NC,
OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA & WI!  If you would like to send
pictures of your students or pictures of students working on the
cranes--even a note, haikus from your students, etc., send them along!
We'll send a booklet of all of this along with the cranes.
 
This project has been interesting to me personally.  It shows how a
message on the internet is capable of touching the hearts of many
people.  I spoke with a woman in San Francisco yesterday--the
spokesperson for the "Friends of the Atomic Bomb"--a group which helps
survivors.  She gave me so much help--names of officials to contact and
resources to use in teaching.  I'll eventually compile all of the
wonderful ideas and reflect them back to you!
 
Thank you again, so very much, for participating in this project.  Sharon
 
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 06:42:08 -0400
From: Sharon K. Oconnell <skoconne@mailbox.syr.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
Subject: SADAKO/PAPER CRANES--NEED HELP!
 
        A grass-roots group in Upstate New York would like your help in
sending a symbol of peace and love to the Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivors
this summer.  The project began with a group of 8th-graders studying
World War II.  Basically, the project has two parts:
 
        o       Read or have students red Eleanor Coerr's book, "Sadako
and the Thousand Paper Cranes."
 
        o       Encourage students to make an origami paper crane and
send it to us.  We will make every effort to collect these from all 50
states and get them to the Sadako Memorial in Hiroshima or the U.N.
Commemoration in New York on August 6th.
 
        Include the name of each child and school and send the cranes to:
 
                Sharon O'Connell
                2423 East Lake Road
                Skaneateles, NY   13152
 
        People-to-People, Int'l, has offered to help with the logistics
and politics, so I think our chances of getting your children's origami
cranes to the Peace Memorial are fairly high. Please email me personally
ASAP if you would like to help. If you need origami paper, let me know;
200 sheets have been donated.  THANKS!  Sharon
                                        (skoconne@rodan.syr.edu)