Sue Silverstein and the Bishop Maginn High School staff have been working hard all summer laying down tape, assembling privacy and safety boards, disinfecting their building, measuring desks. They were exhausted.

Sue Silverstein put together this welcome sign, “I just wanted to do something real that didn’t involve taping signs on floors,” she said. She is an amazing human being.

She talked to me about new facemasks with masks for teachers and aides that are a miracle, they help teachers and asthmatic kids wear masks without sweating or struggling to breathe, a huge problem for teachers and nurses and assisted care aides.

This new technology permits masks to go over a raised frame that helps everyone to breathe and not fog over their glasses. This is a miracle for teachers and health care workers.

I purchased $600 worth on Amazon, popping a good hole in the Mansion/Refugee Fund, but it seems both urgent and important to me. I’m looking for others.

Ideally, these are things that government should be buying for teachers, but we have to accept the world we live in.

If anyone can help, I’d like to buy enough for all of the kids at Bishop Maginn with breathing issues – about 20 and for all of the teachers. I’ve bought 30 of the masks, I just need about 20 more and then some for the Mansion aides.

If you can help me, great, Jon Katz via Paypal, [email protected], or by check, Jon Katz, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816. I think I need about $400 all told.

I love Sue’s Welcome Back board, it reeks of humanity. Please help if you can.