School supply drive under way

The UNT Libraries are collecting school supplies for the children at the Denton County Friends of the Family shelter, which provides emergency shelter and counseling for battered women and their children.

Collection boxes have been placed at four drop-off points: Willis Library, the Science-Technology Library in the Information Sciences Building, the Media Library in Chilton Hall and the Library Annex. The deadline for donations is Aug. 17.

For more information, contact Betty Monterroso at 565-2869; Cathy Sassen at 565-2606; or Barbara Green at 565-2517.

Each school in Denton has its own school supply list. Here is a general list of supplies requested by most elementary schools:

• Large boxes of facial tissue
• 24-count crayons
• Box of 12-count No. 2 pencils
• Packs of assorted construction paper (12 x 18; 50 sheets)
• 4-oz. bottles of school glue
• Sharp pointed 5-inch scissors
• 8-count washable markers
• Wide-ruled spiral notebooks, one subject (70 or 100 pages)
• 8-color pan of watercolor paints
• Pocket folders: brads or no brads, red/yellow/blue
• Pack of manila paper (12 x 18; 50 sheets)
• Small plastic school box
• 1.5-inch binder
• 12-count box of 7-inch colored pencils
• Red pens
• Black pens
• School glue sticks (0.74 oz. or 0.21 oz.)
• Wooden ruler (centimeters and inches)
• Pink beveled eraser
• 200-count wide-rule notebook filler paper
• 6-inch protractor
• Safe-T-Compass (flat movable circle with no metal point)

BY MICHELLE HALE mhale@unt.edu

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