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I LOCAL NEWS Smithsonian honors ECCC faculty member By Steve Gillespie I staff writer April 11 , 2002

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DECATUR- The Smithsonian Institute has taken ideas from East Central Community College to go along with one of its traveling exhibits. An instructional kit developed by ECCC English instructor, Melinda Smith of Union, will be sent to about 40 exhibition sites in Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas and North Dakota, as part of a traveling World War II exhibit. Dates are scheduled through next year. ECCC was the first site in Mississippi to host the exhibit, "Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941-45."

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The exhibit is made up of a number of posters used in support of the war effort in the United States during World War II. Area veterans

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"I was really surprised, but obviously pleased, fhat the Smithsonian was interested in the instructional kit we had put together," Smith said. "I wrote the kit for the college and was glad to be of assistance for the exhibit." Smith was notified of the Smithsonian's intentions recently through an e-mail she received from Carol Harsh, project director of the Smithsonian Institute. In the e-mail Harsh said: "Your instruction kit is of particular interest because, as in Decatur, there are small towns across the country that are developing programs and educational events to coincide with the Smithsonian exhibition in their communities. Your work will be of great assistance for teachers in these·towns as they prepare to teach about the World War II home front. Thanks again for your hard work on behalf of Produce for Victory." Smith said she wrote two versions of the kit, one for classrooms and one for civic and church groups, that included more than 40 activities that could be done before and after viewing the exhibit.

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