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MRH's Million Minor March Marks First Year: A Report
A Washington University Masters student, currently at a University City middle school reports on the May 5 march.
Three Maplewood Richmond Heights students went to a youth event, The BIG Return Summit, in Nov., last year, to brainstorm how to bring together students from MRH and 40 other St. Louis-metro-area schools to execute large-scale community service efforts. The .
The march was May 5, and Melissa Martin, a master's degree student at Washington University, and a practicum student at Brittany Woods Middle School, in University City, chaperoned a group of students from the school to the march.
She wrote an article about the experience for the Wyman Center.
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Martin reported from the march in downtown St. Louis from Soldiers Memorial to Kiener Plaza:
The day ended at Kiener Plaza with a group picture in front of the Arch and several speakers from Maplewood Richmond Heights High School inspiring the youth to continue making an impact in the world. While I would approximate that the Million Minor March and rally, was actually more like a Hundred Minor March, I think it’s important to not discredit the small beginnings.
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