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Please respond by May 4th...................................
To all faculty and staff of
Middletown District,
Good morning,
My name is Abby
Winter and I currently teach 4th grade at
Middletown Village. I am sure that everyone has been
hearing about the terrible tragedies at Virginia Tech and
that Julia Pryde, who was killed there, was a resident of
Middletown. I have been best friends with Julia since 2nd
grade. My friends and I were responsible for putting
together the candlelight vigil held in her honor last Friday
night at HS North.
Upon entering the football
field, we set up a table where people could make donations
to a non-profit organization that Julia was the
Vice-President of called S.E.E.D.S (Seek Education, Explore
and DiScover). I will give you the website that has tons of
information about their organization, but here is just a
little something:
SEEDS is a 501(c)(3)
charitable educational organization that creates
inquiry-based, discovery oriented activities for everyone.
SEEDS cherishes the tenet of education by complementing and
supplementing existing educational programs. We facilitate a
learning awareness from an ecological perspective by
emphasizing life's cycles, sustainable living, civic, and
cultural awareness. Through travel, study, and play, SEEDS
stresses the importance of independent thought, creativity,
and strengthening community by the participation of everyone
involved in the process of learning. Seek
Education, Explore,
DiScover -
SEEDS has a mission to develop future leaders as people
conducting themselves with civic responsibility and
accountability in a sustainable society. SEEDS works with
public schools, private schools, and home schooling groups
on providing supplemental curriculum (SEEDS style!) that
meets the needs of accelerated, very active, and curious
students alike. SEEDS helps to provide families help with
studying and energy release after school! Tired of computer
games and TV? Well, spend a few hours with SEEDS each month
and discover that your sense of adventure and curiosity
likes the real world better than cyberspace! Antarctica,
the North Pole, and anywhere in-between, these trips are
designed to give youth some experience in exploring
environments and new cultures. An important aspect of these
experiences is to give youngsters a chance to present their
interpretations of what they saw to the community around
them.
Being that S.E.E.D.S is a
program that works with children and educational needs, I
would love to be able give back to them as much money as
possible. I am asking that in honor of Julia and all the
wonderful work she did for children, you donate money to the
S.E.E.D.S foundation so that they can keep their
organization running and keep inspiring the children of the
future to want to learn.
Thank you all so much for your
thoughts, prayers and kind words during this extremely hard
time.
* Please send all donations to
Abby Winter c/o Middletown Village via interoffice mail.
by May 4th.
**Checks can be made to SEEDS
Sincerely,
Abby Winter
http://www.seedsguys.org/index.html