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The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt To Be Displayed at Stanford University
on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-28, 1995

A four-day display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, an international
memorial to those who have died of AIDS, will open at Maples Pavilion at
Stanford University on May 25, 1995 at 5:00 pm .

The local display will feature 1,000 three-foot by six-foot panels, each
commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS.  This is just a
portion of the entire AIDS Memorial Quilt, which includes over 30,000
panels.  Panels are made by friends, family members and lovers, and include a
wide variety of materials from leather to favorite t-shirts to photographs of
teddy bears.

The Quilt began in San Francisco as one person's protest against the AIDS
epidemic.  Propelled by the death and tragedy that confronted so many around
the world, especially in the gay and lesbian community, a man named Cleve
Jones searched for a way to make people understand the overwhelming loss and
frustration affecting him and so many of his friends.

In February of 1987, Jones spray-painted his friend's name, Marvin Feldman,
onto a piece of cloth approximately the size of a grave.  Friends,
acquaintances, and strangers joined the effort by making panels of their
own.  Soon, thousands of people across the United States and around the world
were adding names and expressing their emotions by creating hand-made
memorials for the loved ones they had lost to AIDS.

Today the Quilt continues as a powerful, visible symbol of the worldwide
pandemic.  It includes panels from all 50 states and 29 foreign countries.

The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
in 1989.  In 1990, Common Threads, a feature-length documentary film about
the Quilt, won an Academy Award.  Since 1987, more than five million people
have visited the Quilt, and more than $1.4 million has been raised for AIDS
service organizations throughout North America.

Donations collected at the local Quilt display will be distributed among ARIS
and Ellipse, local AIDS service providers, who provide necessary funds and
assistance to people living with HIV and AIDS, and their loved ones.

The display will be open daily at Maples Pavilion at Stanford University
during the following times:  Thursday, May 25, 4-8pm; Friday, May 26,
10am-8pm; Saturday, May 27, 10am-6pm; Sunday, May 28, 10am-6pm.  For more
information, call the Stanford Quilt Display Committee at (415) 497-9740.  To
volunteer to help during the display, call (415) 497-9741.