The Big Read.  West Virginia University at Parkersburg is collaborating with area public libraries to sponsor a "Big Read" in the Mid-Ohio Valley.  The college has received a National Endowment for the Arts' grant to coordinate the project, designed to to encourage reading.  Events and activities are being planned for October to encourage area residents to read the Mid-Ohio Valley's "Big Read" selection which is Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."  Shown are (left to right, seated) WVU Parkersburg President Marie Foster Gnage; Kim Jones, college grantswriter and project coordinator; Rhonda Richards, senior vice president for academic affairs; (second row, standing, left to right) Jill Chidester of the Vienna Public Library; Becky Watson of the Dora B. Woodyard Memorial Library; Suzette Lowe of the Jackson County Public Library; Brian Raitz of the Parkersburg and Wood County Public Library; Debbie Richards, WVU Parkersburg special assistant to the president for policy and social justice; (third row, left to right) Rob Anderson, WVU Parkersburg faculty member, and Stephen Hupp, WVU Parkersburg Library director.

 

07/10/09
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