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Saluting Oklahoma's Local Education Foundations

LEF News Roundup

EDITOR’S NOTE: The LEF News Roundup is designed to recognize LEF achievements and share ideas with others. To submit information for the LEF News Roundup, write to Brenda Wheelock, Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, 120 N. Robinson, Suite 1420-W, Oklahoma City, OK 73102 or e-mail bwheelock@ofe.org.

The Muskogee Education Foundation awarded more than $4,000 during its annual grant-awarding patrol. Among the six grants awarded was the Claude C. Harris Grant given to Catherine Dennis, a teacher at the Muskogee 7th and 8th Grade Center. Dennis will be able to use the funds to implement a project, "Connecting Math to the Real World," designed to use videos to demonstrate how individuals use math in their everyday lives.

Inspired by the PBS program "The War," Pauls Valley high school teacher Chad Chronister developed a project designed to record memoirs of area World War II veterans. Thanks to a grant from the Pauls Valley Foundation for Academic Excellence, Chronister and his students are able to conduct interviews with veterans and create a DVD that will be distributed to local schools, the Pualis Valley Public Library and the Oklahoma Heritage Museum.