Show Philippine Students Given Pencils By Manti Manta Lions Club Maybe some of the children of Bonifacio School will use their new pencils deep purple with gold lettering and strong red erasers to write letters to their friends in the off far-off USA Mostly they'll use them to draw maps and write themes and do arithmetic like school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children everywhere For once the children at the Philippines school will probably have enough pencils to last the school year out and that will willbe willbe willbe be unusual They're used to running running running run run- ning out of pencils and having to write on wrapping paper and not having enough books to go around The Manti ManU Lions Club sent pencils enough to supply each child with five to the Bonifacio School Mrs Juanita Valdez the principal issued them to the students on January 29 They were distributed with care as a thing of value The project began when Dr Wendell H. H McGarry a member of the Manti Club and former governor of District 28 returned to the with other American veterans in in observance of the anniversary of the fall of Bataan One of the places he and Mrs McGarry visited was the Bonifacio Bonifacio Boni Boni- facio School in City In some ways the school reminded reminded reminded re re- re- re minded me of the elementary school I attended 40 years ago Dr McGarry recalled It had none of the equipment you and andI I associate with modern modem tion When I asked Mrs Valdez the principal what she needed Dr McGarry told the Manti ManU Lions Club later she said pencils paper everything Members of the club thereupon thereupon thereupon there there- upon instructed President Lloyd 0 O. and Supt Jack F. F Burr of the the South Sanpete School District a member to organize and send pencils posthaste posthaste posthaste post post- haste to Mrs Juanita Valdez principal Bonifacio School in City PI And that's why certain black- black haired skinned dark-skinned children in inthe inthe inthe the Bonifacio School probably probably probably ably are trying to find a place called Manti on a world globe if Bonifacio has a globe and maybe writ writing ng some letters with shiny new purple pencils to some men called caned Lions in off far-off USA |