With the help of crew members on Southwest Airlines, students in Baltimore Highlands and Riverview elementary schools have been getting postcards from “Flat Stanley,” a paper cutout man they made and sent on a range of excursions around the country, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Flat Stanley packs for a trip to Connecticut in 2008 (Catd_mitchell via flickr)
About 215 students from the two elementary schools will be among many packing into the Hippodrome Theatre in downtown Baltimore to watch “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley” in a celebration that will mark the end of a two-month project. The Flat Stanley project, sponsored here by the PNC Foundation, the Hippodrome Foundation, and Southwest Airlines, comes to a conclusion on April 29 with the presentation of the “Flat Stanley” musical on stage.
“They’re really excited about it,” the Sun quoted Mary Meehan, a second-grade teacher at Baltimore Highlands, as saying. Students in her class made charts to track the travels of their Flat Stanley cutouts.
Southwest Airlines employees said they have enjoyed participating in the project. After all, they’re the ones that have been taking about 75 Flat Stanley’s from kids in the Baltimore metro area to Denver, Aruba, and Ohio.
“They’ve used a lot of creativity with the Flat Stanley program,” according to Karen Price-Ward, community affairs and grassroots regional leader at Southwest Airlines.
