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Point
Fermin School
San Pedro, CA |
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JOINT EFFORT Mary Steinmetz, left, of the Steinmetz Foundation, talks with Barbara Saltzman, the Jester's Mom, at Point Fermin School in San Pedro, CA., about the Literacy for Life outreach program supported by the foundation on behalf of Point Fermin students. |
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SCHOOL SUPPORT Point Fermin School Principal Susan Balmanno, right, tells The Jester's Mom how eager the student body is to participate in a Jester & Pharley Read-a-Thon to bring cheering Jester & Pharley materials to ill children in nearby hospitals. |
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DEDICATED Students at this seaside Southern California school pay close attention as they learn how their month-long participation in a Jester & Pharley Read-a-Thon will give them the opportunity to donate copies of The Jester & Pharley book and doll to young patients at nearby Little Company of Mary and San Pedro Peninsula Hospitals. |
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WITH RAINBOWS
IN THEIR HAND Point Fermin students are captivated
as The Jester & Pharley -- and The Jester' Mom -- return to the
kingdom with laughter and colorful rainbows trailing brightly in their
footsteps as they realize that laughter is always hiding inside us.
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GENEROUS GESTURE As part of the Literacy for Life program underwritten by the Steinmetz Foundation, Point Fermin classrooms receive a plethora of Jester & Pharley materials to enable educators to teach across the curriculum using The Jester & Pharley as supplemental tools. Materials include The Jester & Pharley Curriculum Supplement, PhunBook, Educator's Guide and Jester & Pharley Dolls, along with The Jester Has Lost His Jingle -- all proudly demonstrated by, from left, Marty Steinmetz and Charlie Steinmetz, of the Steinmetz Foundation; Ellen Wise ofLittle Company of Mary and San Pedro Peninsula Hospitals; Principal Susan Balmanno, and The Jester's Mom. |
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BIG SMILES
Classroom representatives proudly display The
Jester
& Pharley materials they will make use of in their classrooms as,
from left, Principal Susan Balmanno, Barbara Saltzman and Mary Steinmetz
look on.
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MORE SMILES
Other class representatives are also all smiles
as they look forward to the The Jester & Pharley Read-a-Thon. Charlie
Steinmetz, Barbara Saltzman, Principal Susan Balmanno, and Marty Steinmetz
look on.
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WARM APPLAUSE
Barbara Saltzman, center, Executive Director
of The Jester & Pharley Phund, presents a "Jester Jingle"
to Charlie Steinmetz and Mary Steinmetz in appreciation of the Steinmetz
Foundation's generous support of the Phund's efforts to "encourage
literacy and charity and to bring hope, love and laughter to children."
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SPECIAL
GREETING The Jester's Mom personalizes a
copy of The Jester Has Lost His Jingle going to a Point Fermin
classroom as part of the Steinmetz Foundation grant. In the background,
Ellen Wise of Little Company of Mary and S an Pedro Peninsula Hospitals,
examines the joyful Jester & Pharley Doll that will be bringing
smiles to patients.
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EAGER
PARTICIPANTS All hands go up as The Jester's
Mom asks how many |
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