Plainfield North High School will host its fourth annual Trivia Night, Dinner and Raffle Feb. 20
Proceeds from special event will benefit the Class of 2019’s class activities and special events.
Participating teams will test their knowledge of trivia in a new, fast-paced, multi-category format. The top two teams will each win a cash prize.
School and community members are invited to form a team of four to six people and enjoy an Italian dinner catered by a Plainfield restaurant. The evening will also include a raffle, 50/50 drawing and door prizes.
The raffle will feature items from both local and corporate donors including Chicago professional sports teams and area restaurants.
Registration forms for the event are posted on the PNHS website and can be turned back in to the main office at Plainfield North.
The event is $15 per person for adults and $12 per person for students. Early registration is encouraged.
Please email PNHS Freshman Class sponsor Dawn Carlson at dcarlson@psd202.org for more information about registration or to donate items to the raffle.
Holocaust survivor to share story with JFK school
Holocaust survivor Magda Brown will visit John F. Kennedy Middle School on Feb. 19 to talk about how she and her brother survived imprisonment in a World War II Nazi concentration camp.
She will speak to and answer questions from eighth graders.
The eighth graders are studying the Holocaust and World War II, said Anita Alvarez, ELL/Bilingual Math teacher at John F. Kennedy.
Alvarez is coordinating Brown’s visit to the middle school.
Alvarez stresses to her students that they will be the last generation to meet a Holocaust survivor.
“Her visit will give our students an opportunity to pay their respects, learn about history unlike any other resource, and realize the importance of human life. They will be witnessing history unfold in front of their eyes,” Alvarez said.
Brown was 17 years old in 1944 when she and her family were deported from her home of Miskolc, Hungary on one of the final transports to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents died in the gas chambers there.
In August 1944, Brown was one of 1,000 prisoners deported to Munchmuhle, Stadt Allendorf, Germany to work in an ammunition factory building bombs and rockets. Brown escaped during a death march in March 1945 and hid in a barn until she was liberated by the U.S. Army. She came to America in 1946 and eventually settled in Chicago.