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M A RC H 24, 2016 Available online at www.postoakschool.org
1, 0 0 0 I N SIGN I F IC A N T AC T S by John Long, Head of School
This article was first published January 27, 2010.
M
onique was surprised. Many calls were coming in to the Red Cross with contributions for the Haiti earthquake relief effort, but this one caught her off guard. Sydney is only 10 years old and she was speaking to Monique about a donation. Children just don’t make those calls, and on top of that, Sydney and her classmates had raised the consequential sum of $4,449.55. Where did that come from? Where did that come from? This was not just one extraordinary child’s idea. It was more like spontaneous combustion. After the earthquake, in fact, on the very next day, six or eight Upper Elementary children came to school with the idea of holding a bake sale to raise money—and in addition another group organized a collection of food and clothing. continued on page 2