Care Package from the College of DuPage
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Title
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Care Package from the College of DuPage
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Description
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Items included in care package are as follows:
Item #1: School newspaper - Courier - from February 22, 2008. The headline on the paper reads: NIU grief counseling provided to students. Inside the paper on page 3 is an announcement of the upcoming NIU Day of Remembrance on February 25th, 2008.
Item #2: School newspaper - Courier - from February 29, 2008. The headline on the paper reads: Monday's standing room only memorial allows students, employees time to grieve NIU's loss. Inside paper on page 3 is an article about the DuPage Ribbon & Button Project for NIU Remembrance.
Item #3: Black marble paperweight with gray etching with DuPage logo reading: College of DuPage Foundation.
Item #4: Shiny, dark gray ball-point pen with DuPage logo reading on cap: College of DuPage.
Item #5: White button with crying huskie dog logo reading in black and red: Today we are all Huskies: College of DuPage. Attached to pin is a small black ribbon. Size: 2.25" diameter.
Item #6: Leather journal with feather pen on cover and gold-trim pages. Inside are messages and signatures from the community of the College of DuPage. About half of the pages are filled with hundreds of messages. First page has a poem by William Wordsworth entitled "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." Size: 7" wide by 9.25" tall.
Item #7: Photographs from the College of DuPage's Day of Remembrance for NIU. Two print-outs of photographs, the rest of which are included in their original size on a CD-R.
Item #8: Program / Transcription of the proceedings of the NIU Day of Remembrance held at the College of DuPage on February 25, 2008. Program is bound together with black ribbon and has a crying huskie dog logo at the top of the front page. Size: 8.5" wide by 11" tall.
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Subject
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Artifacts; Messages of Support; Condolence Notes; Prayers; Empathy; Campus Violence; Ribbons; Mourning; Photographs; Poetry; Remembrances; School Shootings; Youth & Violence; 2/14 Memorial Collection
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Creator
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College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
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Publisher
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Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University
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Date
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2008
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Rights
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Property rights in the collection belong to the Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; literary rights are dedicated to the public. Reference our policies and rights for use of the 2/14 Memorial Collection.
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Format
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CD-R (Item #7)
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Language
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English
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Online Submission
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No
