The National Memorial to Fallen Educators may receive new additions and increased advertising, thanks to a Kansas Tourism grant to be presented in Emporia next week.
Kansas Tourism is granting the National Teachers Hall of Fame $16,000 towards those goals. Director emeritus Carol Strickland says this meets an advertising need the Hall’s current budget couldn’t fill.
The purpose of the memorial is to honor the lives of teachers, support staffers and administrators who have died in the line of duty throughout our nation’s history. The names of nearly 190 educators are now inscribed on three granite tablets. The original memorial, dedicated in June 2014, had 114 names on two granite tablets.
The memorial was designated as the state’s first national memorial in 2018 through the work of Senators Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran.
The check presentation will be at 10 am Nov. 16 at the memorial.
