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March 5, 2004 Purdue leaders participate in annual literacy awareness programWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University and community leaders, including professors, basketball players and news anchors, will read to approximately 500 Tippecanoe County area elementary students Monday (3/8) as part of an annual national literacy awareness campaign and, this year, in celebration of Dr. Seuss' 100th birthday. The fourth annual Reading Extravaganza, sponsored by Purdue's Barbara Cook Chapter of the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Purdue Memorial Union, Room 118. The readers will share their love of books and the rewards of reading with preschool through second-grade students. Mortar Board also is coordinating three Purdue outreach groups from the schools of Science and Agriculture to give science and nature demonstrations the same day at 10:30-11:30 a.m., 1-2 p.m. and 2-3 p.m. in the Purdue Memorial Union West Faculty Lounge. Reading times and readers, who all are Purdue staff or organization members unless otherwise noted, include: • 9:30 a.m. – Sue Scott, WLFI-TV 18 news anchor; Brian Breed, Purdue Musical Organizations director; Renée Thomas, Black Cultural Center director; Carolyn Gery, associate vice president for development; and Alan York, entomology professor. • 10:30 a.m. – Tom Turpin, entomology professor; Robert Taylor, agricultural economics professor; Cathy Wright-Eger, women's swimming head coach; and Alysa Rollock, vice president for human relations. • 11:30 a.m. – Patty Jischke, Purdue first lady; and Kenneth Lowe and Austin Parkinson, Purdue basketball players. • 1 p.m. – Patti Dulik, associate director of orientation and new student programs; Antonio Tillis, Spanish and African-American studies professor; Bob Shriner, marching band drum major; Ben Jones, football player; and Kim Kappa, volleyball player. • 2 p.m. – Stephanie Patterson, 96.5 WAZY "Wake-up Crew" co-host; Robert Ringel, audiology and speech science professor; Morgan Burke, intercollegiate athletics director; and Kim McConaha, volleyball player. Students from Edgelea Elementary School, Village Nursery School, Cumberland Elementary School, Battle Ground Elementary School, Klondike Elementary School and Burnett Creek Elementary School plan to attend. Mortar Board members and alumni also will support the national literacy awareness campaign by collecting new children's books to donate to after-school and children's programs at Purdue and in Greater Lafayette. With more than 200 college chapters, the national Mortar Board organization supports the Reading is Leading program to promote senior honor society members' leadership skills while performing community service. Mortar Board members are selected for their achievements in scholarship, leadership and service to the university community. It is the first national organization to honor senior college women. The Purdue chapter of Mortar Board was chaptered in 1926. The society admitted men after 1975. The Barbara Cook chapter of Mortar Board is named to honor retired dean of students Barbara Cook, who advised the group from 1956 to 1986. Writer: Reni Winter, (765) 496-3133, rwinter@purdue.edu Source: Pablo Malavenda, (765) 494-1232, Pablo@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu Related Web site:
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