Volunteers certainly are an essential part of many ofour family  
literacy programs, so I thought you might be interested in the  
following announcement. The story was on NPR and you can listen to it  
by clicking on the link below.


Literacy Volunteer Receives Presidential Honors
Ruth Johnson Colvin is one of 10 people who will be honored this  
coming week with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Colvin dedicated  
her life to literacy in 1962 when she discovered that more than  
11,000 people in her hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., functionally  
couldn't read. It led her to create Literacy Volunteers or America  
which today has more than 125 affiliates. Listen to the story on  
National Public Radio...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6606183

And, while you are on the NPR Web site, scroll down a bit to take a  
look at the related stories.


So, let's talk about volunteers.

How are you using volunteers in your programs? Are they helping with  
children, working individually or with small groups of parents,  
producing newsletters? Are they helping adults learn to read? How  
about sharing with the List your experiences with volunteers and how  
they have benefited your program?







Gail J. Price
Multimedia Specialist
National Center for Family Literacy
325 West Main Street, Suite 300
Louisville, KY 40205

Phone: 502 584-1133, ext. 112
Fax: 502 584-0172


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