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Pennies for Peace
MEPI's Croatian schools need your help if they are to continue. Please sponsor a "Pennies For Peace" drive at your school. You can also provide funds to the Croatia school by purchasing used Montessori materials donated by schools and vendors. Click here to view our inventory. (check back later for updated inventory)
Create a donation box or jar. Everybody can donate and learn. Promote this cause and teach your students about generosity and geography.
Plan an International peace festival: As a yearly culminating event that builds family and community support for your school and this project, plan a year's end picnic featuring international dishes. Children provide the decorations (flags, maps, artifacts and international crafts) plus the entertainment (songs and dances from around the world).
Participate in the "Pennies For Peace" project and receive a packet of information for planning a cultural study of Croatia (includes pen pals, sister Montessori schools and teachers and ideas for class projects). Call us at 478-986-2768 to receive a packet and for more information about how to incorporate this drive into your curriculum.
Each penny, like a person, can make a world of difference.
All donations should be marked for Croatia and mailed to:
Or Mail checks to:
MEPI
PO Box 2199
Gray GA 31032
Shirley Plath Teacher Preparation Scholarship Fund
IN MEMORY OF SHIRLEY PLATH
December 22, 1922 - April 19, 2003
 Shirley Plath embarked on her Montessori path in 1965 at the training center of Dr. Helen K. Billings in Kansas City, Missouri. In October of 1966, Shirley Plath along with her husband Chuck and friends, Kathy Tumilson and Betty Hufford, opened a Montessori school in a rented room of St Luke Presbyterian Church in Kansas City MO. Under their guidance the school grew and in 1973 built the first school in Kansas City designed specifically as a Montessori school, Clay-Platte Children's House. In 1970, Dr. Billings moved to Florida and turned her training center over to Shirley which she continued until 1996.
The training center, a member of MEPI since 1995, is continued by her daughter Andrea Scott. Further inormation on this scolarship fun may be requested from admin@mepiforum.org
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