Santa
Monica, California – The week of March 18, 2002 was “Rotary Reads to Kids”
week for The Rotary Club of Santa Monica. Celebrating the sixth year of our key
literacy program, Rotarian “readers” visited 44 classrooms at four Santa
Monica participating schools: Will Rogers Learning Community, John Muir
Elementary School, McKinley Elementary School and Edison Language Academy.
Books
read during the Rotarian visits were purchased through the Los Angeles Times
‘Read By 9’ Holiday Book Drive 2001. Through the book drive, 7800 award
winning new books for grades K-3 were purchased and donated by The Rotary Club
of Santa Monica to Santa Monica and Los Angeles School Districts.
This
year, as part of the “Rotary Reads to Kids” program, Rotarians also helped
launch a Santa Monica Public Library Card Campaign by distributing
approximately 1000 applications to students.
Rotary
Readers visiting classrooms this year included John Lehne, Ed Moosbruger, Barry
Bouley, Tom Loo, Clyde Smith, Nancy Freedman, Joe Fitzsimmons, Pat Farris, Judy
Neveau, Marvin Levin, Erik Jorgensborg, Norma Barnes, Radomir Samardzic, Shirley
Dowling, Bob Gabriel, Bashir Kadri, Bob Baker, Karim Jaude, Joyce Khoury, Klaus
Mennekes, Monika White, Bill Nichols, Diane Margolin, Bill Fritzsche, Connolly
Oyler, Bill Crookston, Carol Jackson, Vivian Rivas, Lorraine Jossel, Kathy
Dodson, Myles Pritchard, Kris Andresen, Monty McCormick, John McIntire, Tim
Shannon, Jon Kemp and Susan Dawson
Bill
Crookston, President Elect of The Rotary Club of Santa Monica, reads to Ms
Hyatt’s class at John Muir Elementary School.