River Vale School District

393 Rivervale Road

River Vale, New Jersey 07675

www.rivervaleschools.com

CONTACT: Margie Druss Fodor

(201) 358-9260

mfodor@rivervaleschools.com

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RIVER VALE STUDENTS APPEAR IN

NOVEMBER FAMILY CIRCLE MAGAZINE

Students Also Helped Choose The Cover

RIVER VALE, NJ, NOVEMBER 10, 2003 – If you find the glowing pumpkins, plump acorns and fall foliage on the recent cover of “Family Circle” magazine appealing, you can thank a class of River Vale elementary students. They helped select the November cover now on the newsstands.

Family Circle Editor-In-Chief Susan Ungaro, mother of a girl now in the fourth-grade at the Roberge School, last spring gave her daughter’s third-grade class the opportunity to help choose between two prospective covers. Ungaro visited the school to advise teacher Nancy Racich’s third-grade students on how to develop their own magazine cover. The class, with Racich, is shown on the editor’s page inside the November issue of “Family Circle” holding their magazine’s newly-created cover.

“Children are visually sophisticated and smarter than ever,” Ungaro said recently. “I found their reasons for picking this image right on target. The cover had kid appeal as well as mom appeal.”

Ungaro said the glowing pumpkins on the chosen cover most attracted them. The students also felt the cover captured the Halloween color scheme and feel of the festive holiday.

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