11 October 1997

Dear Middle School Model UN Teacher,

Thanks to everyone who came to our October 6 meeting. We seem to have a lot of enthusiasm this year, and when you combine that with a "running time" of about half an hour for the meeting – things seem to be off to a quick start.

Enclosed with this mailing are the following.

• Updated brochure with revised meeting dates and a more current list of schools.
  
• A spreadsheet with tentative student counts for each school as well as an initial mock-up of dates for MUN sessions.
  
• List of the 185 current members of the United Nations. Please come to the next meeting with a list of the countries you would like to represent. (Note re. the list: Zaire is now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Our next get-together is on Monday, November 3, at the UNA Headquarters (121 So. Meramec, 10^th Floor) [map]. We’ll start at 4:00 PM and go about an hour. Our agenda includes the following:

1. Presentation by Bill Ramsey, Director of the Human Rights Action Service in St. Louis. Bill will talk about key human rights issues with a special focus on boycotts of items which might be holiday gifts and are made under slave-labor conditions in developing countries. Bill will have a lot of material which you can bring to your students.
   
2. Final determination of the dates when each school will be participating in the MUN.
   
3. The country draft for each of these MUN dates.
   
4. Anything else needing immediate attention.

Call me at 367-6480 if you have any questions. Hang in there!