Kennett class to open Nasdaq

Daily Dunklin Democrat

KENNETT, Mo. -- The second-grade students who wrote "September 12th: We Knew Everything Would be All Right" will take part in the opening of the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York today.

The ceremony will begin at approximately 9:45 a.m. According to Masterson Elementary principal Elsie Heller and Nasdaq representatives, the best bet to see the ceremony will be on CNBC.

The students, their parents, their teacher, Darlene Robertson, and Heller left for New York City Monday morning and will return tonight.

An assembly is planned for the authors at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The authors will be presented with a certificate and medal by Scholastic Books. Kennett native Sheryl Crow will be the featured speaker for the invitation-only event.

The students' book won Scholastic's Kids Are Authors contest and will be sold at Scholastic Book Fairs nationwide this fall. The book takes readers through the day after the terrorist attacks and what the students would do on an average day at school.