The students

poured their hearts into the project, and more than $4,000 was collected

in an eight-day period.

Several students

played a special part in this activity. Christy Keyser, a fifth-grader

in Dorothy Cannin's classroom, created handmade flag pins using safety

pins and beads and sold them to staff members and parents. She donated

the money to the fund-raiser. Charlene Phanco, the school's enrichment

teacher, involved her students by counting all of the coins and dollar

bills every morning.

Ruben Brown

of the American Red Cross' South Metro Service Center came to the school

Wednesday to accept a check from Bertram. Brown participated in a video

broadcast that will be shown to the entire student body, explaining to

them what humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross mean to people

and thanking them for being "great humanitarians."

Lambeth and

Assistant Principal Bonnie Hancock said that they are very proud of the

civic-minded young American citizens at their school.

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