ONEONTA, N.Y. --
A group of students from the Candor Alternative School will travel
to the SUNY College at Oneonta on October 30 to meet Joe Fab, the
filmmaker who inspired their project to collect and string 1.2
million beads in memory of the lives lost to genocide in Rwanda and
the Sudan.
The Candor students saw Fab's film "Paper
Clips," which documents how students at the Whitwell Middle
School in rural Tennessee responded to lessons about the Holocaust
by collecting one paper clip to honor each individual put to death
by the Nazis. The result in Tennessee was a memorial railcar filled
with 11 million paper clips--representing six million Jews and five
million gypsies, homosexuals, and other victims of the Holocaust.
The students in Candor have already collected 800,000 beads for
their project.
Candor teacher Jonathan Wolfe coordinates the Candor Alternative
School Genocide Prevention Project, which students have been working
on for about a year and a half.
Joe Fab will present a public screening of his film at the SUNY
College at Oneonta at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 29, in the Red
Dragon Theatre of the Hunt College Union. Admission to the event is
complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.
The Candor students and their teachers will visit SUNY-Oneonta on
Tuesday to meet Fab and to discuss their project with him and with
Secondary Education students at the College. Their visit is being
coordinated by Dr. Dennis Banks, Chair of the SUNY-Oneonta
Secondary
Education Department.
More information about Joe Fab's appearance at SUNY-Oneonta is
available from Dr. Banks at (607) 436-3391.
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