Wednesday, April 12, 2000

Bell tolls world peace via new education program

---

BY Ray Schaefer
Enquirer Contributor

        NEWPORT — Teachers will soon have help in telling their students about world peace.

Cynthia Goodman created an program around the Peace Bell. (Patrick Reddy photo) | ZOOM |

        The Millennium Monument Co. World Peace Bell Education Program will begin this fall. It can be used when students visit the bell at Fourth and York streets or in the classroom.

        The program is being presented as part of a ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday that marks the beginning of the 33-ton bell's ringing at noon every day.

        Cynthia Goodman, Millennium Monument creative director and director of education, developed the program. It contains the bell's history and materials applicable to language arts, social studies and art curricula in kindergarten through 12th grade.

        For grade-schoolers, there are art projects such as a peace shield made of a paper plate, feathers and beads. Ms. Goodman said that idea came from the Native American Indian Council.

        High school students, meanwhile, may read what others have written about world peace, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Eleanor Roosevelt drafted in 1948, and write their own stories.

        Festivities on Friday also include:

        •A parade of 1,000 schoolchildren beginning at 1 p.m. from Fourth and Saratoga streets to to the bell.

        •The singing of “Let There Be Peace on Earth” by 4-year-old Matthew Mitchell of Ludlow. In addition, 13 Newport students have been selected to place white roses in remembrance of the 12 students and one teacher killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Col., on April 20, 1999.

        •A speech by Dennis O'Malley, president of Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo., where many Columbine students went for rehabilitation.

        In addition, the World Peace Bell Exhibit Center will formally open.

       

---

Animal giants get more leg room
Groups mobilize to fight new mall
Megan's laws start to take effect
Delhi priest annointed military's 'good shepherd'
City's first known methamphetamine lab broken up
Fire causes $400,000 damage
Taft argues with foes of gun bill
Townships want new defenses
Bell tolls world peace via new education program
Warren airport, neighbors at odds
AM REPORT
Campbell open to consolidation
Clermont ready to offer gun locks
GET TO IT
Gun-toting woman sought in bank holdup
Ky. Senate passes $14 billion budget plan
Lights, action - education
Meeting opens study of I-75
Middletown man faces charges in crash
Movie to be shot in Cincinnnati looks for 700 extras
N.Ky. projects in line for budget money
New Monroe district gets its first board
Norwood director criticized
Polar bears are next to get improved lodging at the zoo
UC physicians consider facilities in suburbs
WUBE fires disc jockey Jim Fox
Queen City's moments to shine reflected in book