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CONTACT: Dr. Henry C. Fraind
305-995-1206

October 18, 1999


More than 1,000 students from schools around Miami-Dade County will attend a United Nations Day celebration on Friday, Oct. 22, at Miami Edison Middle School, 6101 N.W. 2 Ave.

The event will begin at 8 a.m. with a welcome by principal Ron Majors and greetings from School Board Member Betsy H. Kaplan and Santiago Leon of the United Nations. They will be followed by an address by Dr. Mohammed K. Farouk of the Global Awareness Program at Florida International University, who chairs the school district's Advisory Committee for Multicultural Programs.

A parade of flags will precede ethnic musical and dance performances by students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, who come from 166 different nations.

In recognition of the United Nations declaration that 1999 is the International Year of Older Persons, a group of elders from the community have been invited to the event as guests of honor.

For more information, call Hyacinth O. Johnson, Director, Multicultural Programs, at 305-995-1275.

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Assignment Editors Note: Visual of parade of flags symbolically represents the 166 nations of origin of students in Miami-Dade County public schools.

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