"A Book About Me" Books Mark Sixth Year Partnership
Jonesboro Rotary Club teams up with Telephone Pioneers for 2002 "A Book About Me" books project
April 4, 2002 -- Guy Patteson, 2001-2002 President of the Rotary Club of Jonesboro helped deliver over 1,000 kindergarten children in four Jonesboro school districts today. Now these new readers can read about themselves in personalized books, thanks to a cooperative project by the Jonesboro Rotary Club and the Southwestern Bell Telephone Pioneers.
Students at Jonesboro, Westside, Valley View and Nettleton kindergartens, with the help of their teachers, completed forms listing their names, their teachers' names and the names of a couple of friends so that the books, entitled "A Book About Me," could be personalized.
Members of the pioneers, a volunteer group composed of current and retired Southwestern Bell employees, took the completed forms and input the information into computers to be sent to the book publisher.
The Rotary Club of Jonesboro underwrote the cost of printing the personalized books, approximately $5,800, said Patteson. In addition to providing input labor and sending it via the Internet to the publisher, Pioneers contributed about $350 to buy books for students who were not enrolled when the personalized books were ordered, noted Stephen Sexton of the Pioneers.
The books were distributed this week at the kindergartens by Rotary and Pioneer volunteers.
Tommy Gray of the Pioneers said that for the past several years, the group distributed the books in Jonesboro, West Memphis and Blytheville kindergartens. In both Jonesboro and Blytheville, local Rotary Clubs partner with the Pioneers, he said. At West Memphis, the Pioneers group conducted a golf tournament to raise the money to pay for the books.
This is the sixth year the Pioneers and the Rotary Club of Jonesboro have worked together on the "A Book About Me" project.
Funds for this project are raised during the Rotary Club's annual Arkansas Sportshow held during the first weekend in February at the ASU Convocation Center. To learn more, visit http://www.arsportshow.com.
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April 4, 2002 -- Guy Patteson, 2001-2002 President of the Rotary Club of Jonesboro helped deliver over 1,000 kindergarten children in four Jonesboro school districts today. Now these new readers can read about themselves in personalized books, thanks to a cooperative project by the Jonesboro Rotary Club and the Southwestern Bell Telephone Pioneers.
The Rotary Club of Jonesboro underwrote the cost of printing the personalized books, approximately $5,800, said Patteson. In addition to providing input labor and sending it via the Internet to the publisher, Pioneers contributed about $350 to buy books for students who were not enrolled when the personalized books were ordered, noted Stephen Sexton of the Pioneers.