A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

ALABAMA
John S. Jahera, Jr., Dean Road School PTA

ALASKA
Ellen Harney and Vivian Ursula, Denali Elementary School and Visual Enterprises

ARIZONA
Karen Butterfield, 1993 Arizona Teacher of the Year

CALIFORNIA
Lynda Baker, Southern California Edison; Brent E. Heath, De Anza Middle School; Arlene Silverman, San Francisco School Volunteers; Juan Miguel Herrera, Qualcomm Inc.; Eugene Garcia, Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center; Pat Dingsdale, National PTA; Mary J. Brennan, De La Salle Christian Brothers; Marguerite Lukes, California State University; Joe Sweet, NFL Retired Players Alliance/Foundation

COLORADO
Pete Denzin, Windsor School District

CONNECTICUT
Randy MacDonald, GTE Corporation; Lola Nathan: Davis Street School

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Craig Berkowitch: National Center on Education and the Economy; Derek Gordon, Kennedy Center; Julia Howell-Barros, ASPIRA Association, Inc.; Dorothy Rich, Home and School Institute; Susan E. Goewey, National University Continuing Education Association; Linda Moore, Institute for Educational Leadership; Rob Merrill, Very Special Arts; Sister Catherine McNamee, National Catholic Educational Association; Jun Lee, The George Washington University

DELAWARE
James H. Vansciver, Lake Forest School District; Mike Lombardo, PIN-6

FLORIDA
Blanche Wells, Martin County High School; Frances Yeo, PTA Florida Congress of Parents and Teachers; Agatha La Perla, Venice Telephone Pioneers; Eleanor Kuperschmid, Read to Me; Scott Kramer, Youth Crime Watch of America; Dick Hohan, Venice Telephone Pioneers; Rosemarie Fontana, Venice Telephone Pioneers

GEORGIA
Denise Saunders, Several Dancers Core; IOWA Rip Marston, University of Northern Iowa

ILLINOIS
Jennifer Blitz, Chicago Academy of Sciences; Mary Jane Cipic, National PTA; Michelle Adler-Morrison, Youth Guidance; Steve Ingels, University of Chicago; Martha Waterson, National PTA; Dreama Love, National PTA

INDIANA
Sandra C. Lawrence, South Grove Elementary School; Carol Kettler Sharp, Ft.Wayne Community Schools; Sandra Kelley, Sarah Scott Middle School; Barbara Bishop, Beech Grove City Schools

LOUISIANA
Nancy Smith, Central Elementary School; Ray E. Bratton, Lincoln Center School

MASSACHUSETTS
Les Hemmings, John Hancock Financial Services; Karen Spiller, The Efficacy Institute, Inc.; Tony Wagner, Institute for Responsive Education; Carroll T. Miller, Educational Publishing Group, Inc.; Daniel Margolis, Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Boston; Christos Zahopoulos, Project Re-Seed; Bettina Werman, The Werman Group, Inc.

MARYLAND
Susan Gorin, National Association of School Psychologists; Susan Sparks, Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc.; Joyce Epstein, Center on Families, Communities, Schools & Children's Learning; Adrienne Watts, National School Supply and Equipment Association; Maria Harris, Fox Chapel Elementary School

MICHIGAN
Rena Richtig, Rankin Elementary School; Dr. Janice Pemberton, Clara B. Ford School; Suzanne Meenahan, Continental Cablevision; Willard S. Stawski, II, TBSC Learning Systems, Inc.

MINNESOTA
Lynette Eck, Nonviolent Activities

MISSOURI
Catherine Stark-Corn, Squash It!; Darlene Robinett, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; Mildred M. Winter, Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.

NEBRASKA
Connie Spellman, Omaha Chamber of Commerce

NORTH CAROLINA
Wendy Woodworth, Berkeley Manor Elementary School; Julia H. Davis, Winter Park Elementary School; Elena Azzarita, Neuville Industries, Inc.; Karen DeBord, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service

NORTH DAKOTA
Richard J. Olthoff, Minot Public Schools

NEW JERSEY
Rabbi Mordechai Weiss, Trocki Hebrew Academy

NEW MEXICO
Ida S. Carrillo, University of New Mexico; Mary Gervase, Mountain Elementary School

NEW YORK
Jeannine Cronkhite, Livonia Central School District; Ofra Fisher, B'nai B'rith, Center for Jewish Family Life; C. Warren Moses, The Children's Aid Society; Beth Hurwitz, Women's American ORT; Anne McElroy, Madison Oneida Board of Cooperative Educational Services; Jessica Peaslee, Literacy Volunteers of New York City; Barbara Fisher, The Waterways Project; Carol A. Pickel, Family Prayer Ministry; Helen Kapelman, Operation Pie; Linda Colon, Educational Equity Concepts, Inc.; Sandra Rifkin, Effective Parenting Information for Children; Catherine A. Doherty, Albany Citizens Council on Alcoholism; Sheila Lewis, Girl Scouts, USA; Neil Harvey, Avery Publishing Group; Kathryn Greenburg, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters; John S. Sullivan, Cedarhurst Elementary School; Donald J. Brunswick, Windsor Central High School

OHIO
Joseph A. Rochod, The Education Enhancement Partnership, Inc.

PENNSYLVANIA
Olin C. Johnson, Charles R. Drew School; Marjorie Klein, Harcum College; Mary Louise DeNicola, Fairhill Elementary School; Diane Wagenhals, Parents, Inc.

TENNESSEE
LaGina Osbourne, Buena Vista/Jones Paideia Magnet School; Sheila Rapp, Oak Elementary School; Virginia Schmidt, Webster's International; Jerold P. Bauch, The Betty Phillips Center for Parenthood Education; Debbie Morrison, Oak Elementary School

TEXAS
Nancy Dickson Stiles, Katy Elementary School; David Guel, Travis Middle School; Charles Patterson, Killeen Independent School District; Pat Wright, Ft. Worth Independent School District; Emmie West, ECS Learning Systems; Evelyn Farmer, Fredericksburg Independent School District; Robert de Kanter, Robert E. Lee High School; Richard R. Arduengo, Houston Public Library

UTAH
Kathleen B. Peterson, Ferron Elementary School

VERMONT
Ruth Ann Barker, Leicester Central School

VIRGINIA
Rabbi Bruce Aft, Congregation Adat Reyim; Leslie Collins, National Engineers Week; Susan Hlesciak Hall, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; Coleman Harris, Mount Vernon High School PTSA; John J. Mahlmann, Music Educators National Conference; June Million, National Association of Elementary School Principals; Gwendolyn J. Cooke, National Association of Secondary School Principals; Maggie Holmes, National Head Start Association

WASHINGTON
Harriet Green, Lynndale Elementary School; Shirley Scott, Edmonds Community College

WEST VIRGINIA
Michael Valentine, West Virginia Department of Education

WISCONSIN
Anita Zipperer, Green Bay Area Public Schools; Jeff Glover, Demco, Inc.; Karen Helgerson and Chris Perket, Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce; Ruth Ann Landsverk, Department of Public Instruction; Daniel O. Magnuson, Family Service of America

America Goes Back to School: Get Involved!

The National PTA Reflections Program

The National PTA Reflections Program is an arts recognition and achievement program for students in preschool through grade 12, in the areas of literature, musical composition, photography and visual arts. Each year more than 600,000 students participate in the Reflections Program through local PTA units around the country. We would like to acknowledge the following students who provided artwork and photography for the America Goes Back to School poster, bookmark, guide and folder:

1993-94 "If I Could Give the World a Gift . . ."
• Daniel Brouillette, Sioux City, IA, "Harmony"
  
• Mary-Hall H. Dale, Columbus, OH, "Harmony"
  
• Unique R. Dancy, Akron, OH, "Everyone Could Have the Freedom to be Themselves"
  
• Jenny Dumproff, Germantown, WI, "I'd Give the World Another Picasso"
  
• Lauren Elizabeth Gregory, Oak Ridge, TN, "The World Needs a Hug"
  
• Darren Hauck, Wauwatosa, WI, "Helping Hands"
  
• Katherine Leila Norton, Rochester, MN, "A Clean up Club"
  
• Adrienne Shoen, Georgetown, KY, "If I Could Give the World a Gift"
  
• Mikey Stevens, Germantown, TN, "I Would Give the World Fresh Air, Puppies and Love"

  1994-95 "Dare to Discover . . ."

• Jamie King, Meridian, MS, "Sharing a Book"
  
• Katherine Mertens, Cranford, NJ, "Autumn Rain"
  
• Chris Mills, Montgomery, AL, " . . . the Glow of a Book"
  
• Kevin Perine, Jr., Akron, OH, "Wild Thing"
  
• Zachary Schelp, Kansas City, MO, " . . . Your Imagination"

  1995-96 "Just Open Your Eyes and See . . ."

• Taylor Marie Fidel, Murray, UT, ". . . the Setting Sun"
  
• Leandra Hicks, Evansville, IN, ". . . The Light"
  
• Kestral Leigh Grapes Michaud, Irwin, PA, ". . . People are Like Flowers. They are all Different and They are All Beautiful"
  
• Colin Nagel, Hope, RI, "eye opener"
  
• Sloan Schmidtke, Birmingham, AL, " . . . Through an Ant's Eyes"
  
• Eddie Smith III, Montgomery, AL, " . . . We Can All Live in Unity"
  
• Alison R. Trump, Pittsburgh, PA, untitled
  
• Justin Taylor, Parkersburg, WV, "Kid Peace"
  
• Andy Zabko, Novato, CA, ". . . Reflections Upside Down or Are They"

  
  

The design work for the kit was created and produced by ZGS Communications, Inc., in Arlington, VA (Project Manager: Jacqueline M. Burns and Designers: Patricia Rivera and Koranjali Alfonseca).

The kit was reformatted and programmed for the Web by Joanne Minerbi at Westat, Inc.

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