Classroom 15 | a published book
pinch me, I co-wrote a published book. my team and I came across a New York Times article about a classroom of american nine-year-olds who wanted to have pen pals with russian students during the Cold War. But the deeper we dug, the more the story unraveled. so we wrote an investigative journalism piece surfacing the full story behind the headlines.
praise for classroom 15
Two Oregon classrooms, separated by seventy miles and sixty years, are brought together by a brief New York Times clipping. An engaging mix of investigative-reporting and storytelling, Classroom 15 uncovers a long-forgotten footnote in Oregon and Cold War history (I never thought I'd see Yoncalla and Rostov-on-Don in the same sentence), while raising important questions about our current national politics. Hats off to the intrepid student journalists at the University of Oregon who have brought this fascinating story to light. — Tom Booth, Director, Oregon State University Press
