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AIDS Forest
Is Dedicated

Lahav, Israel (JTA) — Ryan
White, the American teen-
ager whose courageous battle
against AIDS — and the
prejudice surrounding it
— changed the' way society
perceives people with the
disease, was remembered
last weekend during the
emotional dedication of the
AIDS Memorial Forest here
in the northern Negev.
Mr. White, a hemophiliac,
contracted the virus that
causes AIDS at age 12
through a tainted blood-
clotting agent.
The forest, which will be
planted and maintained by
the Jewish National Fund, is
slated to contain 10,000
trees, 5,000 of which have
already been donated. It will
employ special conservation
techniques.
Mr. White's mother,
Jeanne, who traveled to
Israel in order to dedicate
the forest, planted the first
tree in her son's memory.
Fighting back tears, she
planted a year-old sapling, a
pine with a dozen slender
branches.
She told the small gather-
ing of friends and American
AIDS activists at the
ceremony that "trees are a
symbol of life. I hope that for
the parents, relatives and
friends of people who have
died of AIDS, planting a tree
in this forest will serve as a
way for them to express
their loss and pain."
The ceremony ended with
a "healing circle" in which
the participants held hands
and read out the names of
loved ones who had died of
AIDS.
Ryan and his family were
thrust into the limelight in
1985, when the junior high
school he was attending in
his hometown of Kokomo,
Ind., barred him from atten-
ding classes on the grounds
that he might pass the
disease on to others. After
months of legal battles, he
won the right to attend
school.
Despite the victory, the
Whites were shunned in
their own neighborhood.
They were forced to leave
their home after their
neighbors' growing hostility
culminated in a gunshot
fired through their living
room window.
The family moved to
Cicero, Ind., where Ryan
was welcomed at Hamilton
Heights High School in
nearby Arcadia. He died of
AIDS- related complications
on April 8, 1990.

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