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Friday, August 27, 2004 : 2004 Literacy Breakfast Kick-Off 8:00 to 9:30AM

Celebrate Rotary! Celebrate Literacy! Helping Children of the World!

Be sure to join us on Friday, August 27, 2004 from 8:00 to 9:30 AM. Lawry’s Restaurant, on North La Cienega Boulevard in Beverly Hills, will once again graciously host our breakfast event.

Improving education is one of the biggest challenges we face. Today Southern California students rank among the lowest in the nation in reading skills, with two thirds of the more than 2 million kindergarten through third grade students are below reading level.

Our Literacy Breakfast is a great forum to learn about successful literacy programs that District Clubs have developed, and as well, share your ideas. This year we will be hearing from Lani Lattin Duke on the LA Times ‘Reading By 9’ program and from Shirley Dowling, District Literacy Advisor, about District Grants. Margaret Donnellan Todd, County Librarian will be our featured speaker. Under her guidance are 84 libraries, 4 bookmobiles, 17 Literacy Centers and 14,000 plus Children’s Programs. She will share with us a wealth of literacy knowledge. And, finally, each Club will receive a book bag full of literacy program ideas that can be easily implemented.

Please RSVP by August 12, to Susan Dawson at shdawson.dci@ verizon.net or call at 310-827-4388. We look forward to seeing you at Lawry’s for breakfast!

Friday, August 27, 2004 - Ralph Pezzullo - "Communication Gaps between the USA and Third World Countries."

Mr. Pezzullo is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and copywriter as well as a published author.

When he was five his father joined the Foreign Service of the State Department. His father's job took them to Washington, DC, Mexico, South Vietnam, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Nicaragua. He lived in Saigon during the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the overthrow of Diem, a number of other coup d'etats and almost daily Vietcong terrorist attacks against Americans. He survived three years gasping for air at 13,000 feet in La Paz, Bolivia during the time that Che Guevarra was trying to build a guerrilla base in that country. In 1980 he was in Nicaragua debating politics with guys like Tomas Borge and the Ortega brothers and witnessing the first days of the Sandinista Revolution (the subject of the non-fiction book At the Fall of Somoza, which he wrote with his father).

So, yes, Mr. Pezzullo has some stories to tell us. You don't want to miss this meeting!

September 10, 2004 - Pete Mitchell is the Founder and President of an organization dedicated to teaching the success principals of leadership called FundamentalLeadership.com. Pete is a sought after public speaker on the topics of leadership, government, and business success. You can learn some of the most profound leadership principles by looking in the lives of American heroes. Pete is the author of Modern Day Heroes: In Defense of America.

Don't miss this presentation - especially those of us who would like to improve their business leadership skills.

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