The State - News from July 25, 1989

After Columbus Day, the Names Project will scale back its national display of quilts that serves as a personal memorial to those who have died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a spokesman for the organization said. “We will be going into senior citizen centers, classrooms and to people at risk but who have yet to come to terms with AIDS, and let the quilt do what it does, which is to reach people on a personal level,” said Names Project spokesman Dan Sauro. Cleve Jones, a gay political activist in San Francisco, said the cost of mounting the full display of quilts since October, 1987, has become prohibitive. It will cost about $165,000 to transport and display the approximately 12,000 quilts Oct. 6-8 in Washington on 25 acres on the south side of the White House.