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Education Honor Students Help with Reading is Fundamental Project
May 6, 2004
MACOMB, IL - - Eighteen students in Western Illinois UniversityÂ’s Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education, participated in a Reading Is Fundamental project, which recently was awarded to Western through a grant from KDP headquarters.
The students were involved in buying childrenÂ’s picture books, reading and recording them onto cassette tapes, packaging the books and tapes and donating them centers for abused women and children in the region. The books will be available to be read to the children at the center and to be used as gifts for special needs families for birthdays and holidays. In addition to preparing and reading the books on tape, students also spent time reading books to children at WesternÂ’s Infant and Preschool Center.
Chapter President Laurel Borgia and Vice President Frances Steward, both assistant professors in WesternÂ’s curriculum and instruction department, delivered one set of books to the Springfield Nursery Crisis Center in March. Another batch of books was delivered last month by the Chapter Counselor Pamela Godt, curriculum and instructor professor, to the Victims Services Office of the Western Illinois Regional Council in Macomb.
(Photo ID: Mandy Ricco, president of Kappa Delta Pi, reads to children while Noelle Flynn, membership chair and foundation representative looks on.)
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