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To: jhild who wrote (12713)	2/12/1998 1:25:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Moonray posted that earlier, I just went outside and can see some stars and some clouds. I've got a real estate agent looking for a place for me in a dryer area...maybe Seattle.

To: jhild who wrote (12713)	2/12/1998 9:21:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

$6.5m in donations boosts Boston schools' computer push By Karleen Kozaczka, Globe Correspondent, 02/12/98 Boston moved closer to goals of providing training and easy access to computers to all public-school children yesterday with donations worth $6.5 million from major high-technology companies. Intel Corp. will donate 9,500 microprocessors, worth $3.5 million, and HiQ Computers and Microsoft will provide discounted computers, a technology training center for teachers, and software, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced at the Joseph Lee Elementary School in Dorchester. Menino called it one of the largest private technology donations to any school system in the country. Total funding for the city and schools' joint Partners in Technology program now stands at $22 million. The donations bring Menino's Kids Compute 2001 program closer to its goal of one computer for every four students by the year 2001. ''Just two years ago... we had one computer for every 63 students,'' Menino said. ''With this donation, we bring that ratio to one for every 10 students. I'd say we're well on our way to reaching my goal ahead of schedule.'' At the Lee school, Marjorie Duby's fifth-grade students demonstrated their use of technology in the classroom by tracking, via the Internet, two stuffed-animal lobsters they sent to classrooms across the United States. ''The children mailed out the lobsters in a shoebox filled with pictures and information about Boston,'' explained Maria Iglesias, the principal. The students who received the lobsters sent Duby's class information about their city and projects they are working on. The class posted this information and the lobsters' calculated mileage on its website as, ''The Online Itinerary and Journal of Looney Larry and Looney Lester Lobsters.'' ''It set up lines of communication and an exchange of culture,'' Iglesias said. ''It really is taking the technology that's provided by these generous corporations and fulfilling the mayor's promise.'' HiQ Computers will set up what was called the nation's first free technology-training facility for teachers, providing 30 to 40 workstations and on-site and in-class instruction for three years. Microsoft is making a large donation of software and curriculum-training materials. ''This joint initiative is a fantastic opportunity to harness the energy and resources of the leading technology companies in New England to serve inner-city children,'' said Sandra McCarthy, general manager of Microsoft New England. The Partners in Technology program has brought together 75 local and national businesses so far, including 3Com, which donated $1 million, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which donated about 6,000 hours of labor, valued at $400,000. This story ran on page B15 of the Boston Globe on 02/12/98. c Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company. o~~~ O