Read Across America was celebrated at the Alice Costello School, Brooklawn on March 1 and March 2.
The guest speakers over the two day period were children\’s author and songwriter Anne Abernathy Roth and Bill Cleary, editor of ClearysNotebook and Publisher Emeritus of the Gloucester City News.
Miss Anne, as she is known, entertained and instructed the children with interactive stories and activities. Miss Anne\’s visit was sponsored by the family of Kathryn Barbara Newbold, a former Brooklawn reading teacher. The family wished to do something in her memory to promote reading.
Friday morning at an assembly of the Fifth through Eighth Grade students, Cleary talked about his 40 years as a journalist. He reflected back to 1968 when he interviewed a Gloucester City family who had just received word that their son died in Vietnam. He also spoke about other events he covered during his career such as the visit of President Jimmy Carter to Gloucester City in 1981. Plus he told the students about his most recent project which was the launch of ClearysNotebook, a web site he started in August 2006. In the afternoon Cleary read to Miss Tussey\’s First Grade Class.
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