3/1/2009
Congregation Beth Hillel in Wilmette, Illinois
Life in a Jar will present at Congregation Beth Hillel on Sunday afternoon, March 1st. The time of...
4/7/2009
Lafayette, Indiana - McCutcheon High School
McCutcheon High School in Lafayette, Indiana, under the sponsorship of the Greater Lafayette Holocaust...
6/11/2009
Austin Convention Center-Austin, Texas
Life in a Jar will present at the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals meeting. The presentation...
6/12/2009
Renaissance Hotel-Austin, Texas
Life in a Jar will present at the Texas Association of Elementary School Principals meeting. The...
9/14/2009
Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C.
Irena Sendler is the topic of this presentation at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C. The event...
10/14/2009
Purdue University Calumet-Hammond, Indiana
Life in a Jar will present at Purdue University Calumet in Indiana. This presentation is part of...
10/15/2009
Purdue University Calumet-Hammond, Indiana
Life in a Jar will present at Purdue University Calumet in Indiana. This presentation is part of...
10/16/2009
Purdue University Calumet-Hammond, Indiana
Life in a Jar will present at Purdue University Calumet in Indiana. This presentation is part of...
CLICK HERE TO
VIEW ALL EVENTS

For Generations Yet Unborn

This documentary film project by Heather Jurgenson, a 10th grade student at Uniontown, Kansas High School in 1996, began a beautiful story.  Heather became friends with Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine and produced a video documentary.   She, along with two young men of the high school, would bring about a reunion between Elizabeth and a white student who befriended her forty years earlier. 

The U.S. History textbook, The Americans by McDougal Littell, has the following in the teacher's edition:

The experience at Central High School traumatized Elizabeth Eckford, who dropped from public view after 1958. In 1996, she reappeared in the news when Heather Jurgensen, a 16-year-old student at a rural Kansas high school, convinced Eckford to be the subject of a video for the National History Day competition. After turning down media interviews for decades, Eckford decided to help Jurgensen. Jurgensen's video became a national finalist in the competition.

There will be much more on this inspiring story.

Jim Crow and Daisy Blossom, Meet Kendall Reinhardt

This performance was written and produced by Jeremy Johnston and David Foster.  These two Uniontown High School students accompanied Heather Jurgenson on her trip to Little Rock.  While interviewing Elizabeth Eckford, Jeremy asked if there were any white students who befriended her.  Elizabeth immediately answered, Ken Reinhardt.  She had not seen Ken since 1957-58.

The boys began their search and found Ken and his wife Judy in Louisville, Kentucky.  Ken had no idea that Elizabeth or any of the Little Rock Nine considered him any different than the rest of the students.

Ken fell in love with the project and loaned his Central High School yearbook and letter sweater to the boys for the drama.  MORE LATER.....

 

© 2006 - Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project. All rights reserved.
No part of this website may be used without permission.