We Gratefully Acknowledge the following...

 

Marsha Milich (GATE Teacher) for the creation and coordination of the Rockland By Kids for Kids concept

Steve Landau (parent, SVSHS graduate) for the tremendous number of hours he donated serving as our original Webmaster

Maureen Plainfield (parent) for sharing her HTML expertise and coding the original "By Kids For Kids" Exhibit

Peter Talman (retired teacher, SVSHS graduate) for rescuing old Spring Valley Senior High scrapbooks*, storing them for 20 some odd years and donating them to this web site. (*scrapbooks were prepared by Emma Bird long time librarian at Spring Valley Sr. High)

Jason Friedman (Superintendent) for his efforts to foster community linkages and continued support of the project

East Ramapo Teachers, Students, Parents and Community Members for volunteering their time in a variety of roles which helped bring the site to life.

Carole Morrill (former Little Red Schoolhouse Museum Coordinator) for sharing her time, expertise and the Little Red Schoolhouse postcard collection.

Ray Blauvelt (District Employee, SVSHS graduate) for allowing us to scan pages from his 1876 Atlas

Paula Acunto, East Ramapo Teachers’ Center Coordinator for providing access to all the Center’s facilities and coordinating the volunteers

Ronni Fassberg (retired teacher, SVSHS Graduate), Rhoda Schaefer (Hillcrest teacher, SVSHS Graduate), Rita Bass (Spring Valley Sr. H.S. Teacher, SVSHS Graduate), Alan Tesher (Margetts teacher, SVSHS Graduate) for reviewing old clippings and recommending selections for this website.

Rick Knapp (Kakiat Teacher) for providing us with a wonderful group of Kakiat student volunteers

Mark Samis (Lower Hudson Regional Information Center) for "enabling" the project to go forward and believing in the "vision"

Andy Angelos for his "creative" design contributions

Rockland County Journal News for allowing us to publish old newsclippings.

Patti Negrin (Elementary Computer Teaching Assistant) for scanning old photos and artifacts