The Fall Big Read 2008 Program is now
complete.
The
entire Call of the Wild Calendar
of Events is
still available here.
See below for Harry's
Article including Plans for 2009.
See
photo of Starkville Reads' New Officers
for 2009-2010
Starkville Reads Receives SOAR Grant
Dr.
Chester McKee, Chairman of the Grants Committee for SOAR
(Starkville-Oktibbeha Achieving Results), presents a check
to Harry Freeman, President of Starkville Reads, to provide
support for Starkville Reads' Books for Kids program during
2009. The Starkville Reads grant was one of five awarded
by SOAR this year to enhance the quality of community life
in Starkville and Oktibbeha County. SOAR is the local affiliate
of the CREATE Foundation.
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Starkville
Reads Sets Plans for 2009 Programs
by Harry Freeman
Starkville
Reads, an all volunteer organization established in 2004
to encourage more reading for pleasure in Starkville, has
chosen three emphasis areas for 2009. In the spring, Starkville
will join with communities from around Mississippi to participate
in the Mississippi Reads program. We will be encouraging
everyone in the community to read Ms Eudora Welty's The
Collected Stories and participate in several
events still in the planning stages. The summer program
targeted to younger readers will be built around books by
Dr. Ben Carson. In the fall Starkville will join with communities
and schools all over the country who are celebrating the
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. Tentative plans are to feature
several biographies and other books about our 16th President.
Mississippi Reads is a project initiated by sponsors throughout
the state, including the Starkville Public Library, to increase
reading among all Mississippians and to highlight some of
Mississippi's extraordinary writers. Previous year programs
featured books by William Faulkner and Richard Wright. This
year Mississippi Reads' featured author is Ms. Eudora Welty
who was born 100 years ago in Jackson.
Dr. Ben Carson, the featured author for the summer program,
is the author of two best selling books, Gifted
Hands and Think Big.
His books focus on his life journey transforming himself
from a ghetto kid into a celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon
at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. An exciting program
for exposing Starkville kids to Carson's books and the lessons
contained within is being planned.
2009 is the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln,
There is just an unbelievable amount of events happening
all over the country in celebration of his birth. In the
fall Starkville Reads will join the celebration by focusing
on a couple of well known books about Lincoln and holding
some really neat events. Stay tuned.
As a part of the three 2009 programs as with all to its
programs, Starkville Reads will supply to the public library
and school libraries extra copies of the books being featured.
Please visit our web site, www.starkvillereads.org,
to learn more about our programs. Those interested in joining
the Advisory Committee for Starkville Reads, please call
Harry Freeman at 320-4291.
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Starkville
Reads Elects New Officers for 2009-2010
Seated:
new officers (left to right) include Alveria Crump, treasurer;
Earlie Fleming, secretary; Marty Friend, president-elect;
and Harry Freeman, president. Standing: outgoing officers
include Nancy Jacobs, president; Florence Box, secretary;
and C. T. Carley, treasurer.
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