California's First Lady, Sharon Davis Helps Us Kick Off Literacy Week!
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California's First Lady, Sharon Davis Helps Us Kick Off Literacy Week! |
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| Shown starting left: Karen Baker; Shirley Dowling, Literacy District Advisor; Mr. Pat Cashin, Rotary District Governor Nominee; Rick Mendoza, District Governor; Mr. John Colville, Rotary District Governor Elect; First Lady Mrs. Sharon Davis; President Bill Crookston; Kristina Andresen, Program Chair; Alonso Hill, Past Literacy Committee Chair; Ed Moosbrugger, Literacy Committee & PR; and Norma Barnes, Literacy Committee Chair. |
California First Lady Sharon Davis kicked off a week of literacy activities by our club with a luncheon address on Friday (March 28, 2003) , Mrs. Davis, who published her first children’s book, “The Adventures of Capitol Kitty,” has visited schools around the state to promote reading and literacy.
That’s just what many Santa Monica Rotarians will do during “2003 Rotary Reads to Kids” week, March 31-April 4, when they visit 47 classrooms at four Santa Monica elementary schools.
In an effort to increase interest in reading among students, the Rotarians will read to many K-2 classes at Edison, McKinley, Muir and Rogers elementary schools in Santa Monica. The annual program includes donating books to the schools.
....Ed Moosbrugger
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| Rotary International President Bhichai Rattakul shown next to our literacy chair, Norma Barnes. Bhichai was visiting Culver City Rotary Senior Citizens Center in a recent visit. Our Club donated 255 books to this library as part of our current literacy project. |
1. As part of the club's project of the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica/ Rotary branch at John Adams, the literacy committee will be responsible for getting books for the Book Wall to be installed in the new facility. Allan Young, our Special Project Chair, Norma Barnes, our literacy chair, and Heidi Nyman, Rotaract president at SMC, collected books and the Rotaractors are going to set up a tutoring program at the new facility.
2. Our club and our Rotaractors collected more than 250 gently used Senior books for Rotary Plaza, a 100 unit senior apartment complex,
owned and run by the Rotary Club of Culver City. Their library had been depleted and the Rotary Club of Santa Monica replenished it under the
direction of Norma Barnes.
3. The World Community Service committee chaired by Karim Jaude allocated $400 of its budget to the 4 Rotary clubs in Swaziland for
literacy to fit in with Governor Rick Mendoza's theme of "Literacy for All". The Rotary Foundation also allocated $400 .
Shirley Dowling, District 5280 Literacy Advisor, gave the check to Doug
Thistlewaite, Swaziland's District Governor for distribution.
4. Finally -- Our Annual "Rotary Reads to Kids" Week will have 47 Rotarians reading in 47 classrooms in 4 Santa Monica public schools
March 31-April 4, 2003. We will present these same four schools and the schools in Compton (our partnership club) with more than 6000 books that
we purchased from Scholastic and they matched with a like book.
....Shirley Dowling
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When District Governor (9250) Doug Thistlewaite's visited the Mbabane Rotary Club in Swaziland, he was presented with a check for $800 ($400 from the Rotary Club of Santa Monica and $400 from District 5280 Rotary Foundation) by
Shirley Dowling, Literacy Advisor for District 5280. Judith Diamini, Literacy Chair and Interact coordinator of the Mbane Club, said her club will use their $200 to buy books for the Interactors to take to elementary schools to read to the children. The money was divided equally among the 4 clubs in Swaziland. , |
| Shirley Dowling at an elementary school's library in Mbabane, Swaziland that services 800 orphaned children, 80% are HIV positive. There are no books in classrooms of 60 students except what the teachers get from this library. |
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