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| Hoke Reading / Literacy Council is celebrating 25 years of providing the opportunity for adults to acquire basic literacy skills.
It has taken many acts and hundreds of individuals and groups to bring Hoke Reading Literacy Council to this 25th year. We pause to say thank you to each of them. We have chosen to recognize just 25 of the many as examples of the commitment and talent that it took to bring us to this 25th anniversary. 1. Ruth Ansley, former board chairman and first to teach English as a Second Language 2. Tony Austin, former board chairman and the longest term on the finance committee 3. Raz Autry, former board member, top notch literacy fish fry chairman, and 25 years of unbroken support 4. Callie Buie, the only $ for Literacy canvasser ever to collect $1,000.00+ 5. Doris Calloway, former secretary and the only volunteer to tutor 1000+ hours 6. Allen Douglas, former board chairman who had the vision for a computer lab 7. Willie Featherstone, former board chairman who co-shared the vision of the literacy fish fry 8. Nellie Flowers, former board member who brought the $ for Literacy drive into being 9. James Glenn, charter board member, former chairman, and currently a small group instructor 10. Hoke County Government, for being first in North Carolina to put tax dollars into volunteer literacy 11. Eva (Jackie) Haddon, first board chairman and sharer of the vision of a volunteer literacy council 12. William Lancaster, former board chairman who also served on the state literacy board of directors 13. Sarah Leach, board treasurer during the national pennies for literacy drive who has continued to donate her pennies to literacy 14. Lauchlin MacDonald, former board chairman who kept the council going without an executive director 15. John D. McAllister, charter board member, former board chairman and 25 years of unbroken support to volunteer literacy 16. Emma Mims, former board chairman, charter member of the state literacy board of directors and our only certified volunteer tutor trainer 17. Leo Salzer, former board chairman, personnel chairman in our infancy and continuing Friend of Literacy 18. Helen Sellars, former board secretary who designed the $ for Literacy logo that is still used 19. Wayne Simpson, immediate past board chairman under whose administration the office finally began a re-furnishing project 20. Don Steed, former board member, supervisor of the first staff and 25 years of unbroken support 21. Mark Thompson, former board chairman with strong on-going support for the $ for Literacy drive 22. Mina Townsend, former board member who co-shared the vision of the literacy fish fry 23. Mitch Tyler, former board chairman under whose administration we got our first technology, a TV and VCR 24. Kent Vesser, former board chairman under whose administration we got our first United Way funding 25. Sallie Woods, the only person appointed by the board of directors as Leader of New Readers |
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