The Kelsey Briggs Chapter of Hugs Across America requested teddy bears for victims of a Sweetwater Oklahoma tornado, as well as the tornado that devastated,Greensburg, Kansas. John Marshall High School collected 171 bears to help out.

So many children lost everything. Cindy Eggeling a Secretary at John Marshall said, “Our school mascot is a bear, what better way for our students to give back than to donate a bear to children in great need”.