Elementary Schools 

• "Students had a clear and tangible way to be a 'good friend' and use steps peace keep within their own peer group..."
  Park Dale Lane Elementary - Encinitas, CA
  
• "He challenged the students to really be good friends and make choices that will help them grow to be great leaders."
  Oceanside Adventist Elementary School - Oceanside, CA
  
• "Our principal said it best with the comment, "This is the best program I have ever seen."
  Lunada Bay Elementary - Palos Verdes, CA
  
• "about two months since your event, and your lesson still continues to help me in my classroom."
  Libby Elementary - Oceanside, CA
  
• "The seeds you sowed ... have germinated" 
  Bryn Mawr School - Baltimore, MD 
  
• "impressed by your making concrete to children macro level concepts of land mass, population, food, energy, immigration and human behaviors, all at once and very naturally." 
  International House at UC Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
  
• "makes it possible for children of all ages to understand why conflict can arise between nations." Longfellow Elementary - Colorado Springs, CO 
  
• "helped the students gain an understanding of their responsibility"
  Russellville Independent School District - Russellville, KY (11/95)
  
• "What really impressed me and the other panelists was the way many students recalled your 1WOW assembly program three years after the event." 
  Russellville Independent School District - Russellville, KY (12/97)
  
• "The children still use some of your techniques to solve problems that you were able to translate from a global to a local level."
  The Peck Place School - Orange, CT 
  
• Both faculty and students deeply enjoyed and benefited from." 
  Pennsbury School District - Yardley, PA 
  
• "...it was the simulations of populations and food consumption that generated the most student comment. You created a sound way to subtly build empathy and then turned it around to intensify the lesson of how inequitable life experiences require our attention to stem conflicts. Well done.." Dr. Lindalee Ausejo, Principal, Woodrow Wilson Elementary, Richmond, CA

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Secondary Schools 

• "... for the past three years, Mesa Verde Middle School's PTSA has hosted the 'One World, Our World' Program for our 6th grade classes. ... amazed at the student's understanding ..."
  Mesa Verde Middle School - San Diego, CA
  
• "program was one of the best, if not the best, we have had in Akron Public Schools."
  Akron Public Schools - Akron, OH 
  
• "so important for all of us to comprehend, but so difficult to demonstrate in a meaningful way. You did a superb job."
  North Haven Middle School - North Haven, CT 
  
• "Watson Junior High students really enjoyed the One World/Our World assembly. Thanks! I know our students will use this information to make better choices in life."
  Don Shiverdecker, Principal, Security, CO 
  
• "Your show was everything you promised it to be and more."
  Grossmont High School - La Mesa, CA 
  
• "Mr. Sovinee is an outstanding educator, presentor and spokesman for global education in our schools." Hilltop High School - Chula Vista, CA 
  
• "especially rewarding that you were able to spend the entire day visiting with several classes"
  Robert S. Farrell High School - Salem, OR

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Universities 

• "a wonderful opportunity to provide a significant experience around cultural diversity to both university students as well as children in local schools."
  Kent State University - Kent, OH 
  
• "the Fellows gained a great deal from the program and the interaction with Mr. Sovinee." 
  University of Texas - El Paso, TX 

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Organizations

• "Award to One World, Our World"
  Season for Non-Violence - San Diego, CA
  
• "The smaller class discussions after the two assemblies were enlightening." 
  World Affairs Council - Charlotte, NC 
  
• "very proud to hereby place in nomination for the 1997 Shriver Award, the name of Rudy Sovinee"
  San Diego Peace Corps Association 
  
• "...an excellent, high quality program... has high-human value for the social studies program, current events, race relations and many other related curricula areas.
  I recommend to principals the use of the program and I strongly endorse to community business persons the desirability of financially supporting the program in community school s." 
  Mark Wolfe, District Humanities Unit Mgr., San Diego City Schools
  
• And, to see two news articles from 1991 ...
  San Diego Tribune and Beach and Bay Press

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Kids Quotes

"... I learned that Peace doesn't have to come around Christmas or Thanksgiving or around a birthday. Peace should be around all the time." . . . David - Colorado Springs, CO 

(This note especially impressed us since Joshua's letter came out of the blue, ten months after visiting his elementary school)"... Hi. Last year you came to our school and I know that a lot of people enjoyed your program. I recommend that everybody hears the message that you put forth in your program." . . . Joshua - Evansville, IN 

"... we hope you can come back next year. Even though I won't be here, kids will enjoy it." . . . Megan - West Des Moines, IA 

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