Literacy tutors sought
Filling out a job application,
reading a newspaper or signing a
check may seem like simple tasks
to many people.
However, for one in three
residents of Hoke County such
tasks are monumental.
Their problem is functional il
literacy. Illiterate adults lack the
basic skills they need to solve every
day problems most people take for
granted.
Overcoming the obstacles of not
being able to read and write isn't
easy, but there is a local program
that can help.
The Hoke Reading/Literacy
Council consists of trained
volunteer tutors who battle il
literacy in their own backgrounds,
equipped with compassion and
basic teaching materials.
The Hoke Reading/Literacy
Council is one of 640 U.S. af
filiates of Laubach Literacy Action
which provides free, one-to-one
tutoring to non-readers and non
English speakers.
In the U.S., more than 26
million adults (one in Ave) are
functionally illiterate. "Most peo
ple do not realize how widespread
the problem is," says Barbara
Buie, director of the Hoke
Reading/ Literacy Council. "Il
literacy compounds all our social
problems of poverty, poor health
and crime," she adds.
According to Buie, anyone with
reading ability can become a tutor.
The council's next training
workshop is planned for
September 10 (6 p.m.-lO p.m.), at
the council office on West Elwood
Avenue.
For more information contact
Barbara Buie at 87S-214S.
Looking over proclamation
Raeford Presbyterian minister Dr. John Ropp (left),
Hoke-County Department of Social Services Director
Ken Witherspoon (center) and Shady Grove Mis
sionary Baptist Church minister Rev. J. W. Gorham
(right) look over a proclamation signed by the Gover
nor declaring state Literacy Day. The day will be
observed in Hoke County on September 9.
Literacy Day set for Sunday
By Ed Miller
Governor Jim Hunt has pro
claimed this week as Literacy
Week in the state, and Hoke Coun
ty is following up that celebration
with its own literacy day, to be
held on Sunday, September 9.
On that date, at McLaughlin
Chapel Church on Highway 20,
there will be an honors ceremony
for those teachers, students,
groups and tutors who have done
outstanding jobs in the field of
literacy.
All of the county's churches and
the public are invited to the 3 p.m.
ceremony that will feature State
Representative Sidney Locks as
guest speaker.
The Sunday service will also
celebrate the end of the annual
Hoke County Literacy Fund
Drive.
The week has been proclaimed
as literacy week because it com
memorates the 100th anniversary
of the birth of Dr. Frank Laubach,
who was the originator of the
"each one teach one" reading
method.
The phonetic method has been
translated into over 300 languages
and is used in more than 103 coun
tries world wide.
The Hoke County Ministerial
Association and the Hoke County
Civic League are jointly sponsor
ing the Sunday celebration.
International Literacy Day will
be on September 8 this year as it
has been for the past several, Hoke
Literacy Director Barbara Buie
said.
That date is the actual birthday
of Dr. Laubach, Buie said.
With churches in the county all
pulling together for the cause of
literacy, Buie said: "Literacy has
probably the largest cross
representation of anything else in
the county".
Zan Monroe named
division manager
for Carolina Tel.
G.A. (Zan) Monroe, Jr. of
Raeford, Carolina Telephone's
district commercial manager in
New Bern, has been named divi
sion service center manager.
Monroe is responsible for the
supervision and direction of the
operations of the service center.
One of the primary functions of
the service center is to match
customer applications with equip
ment and cable information so that
the installers can be dispatched for
service connections.
A native of Raeford, Monroe is
married to the former Virginia
Griffin of Reidsville and they have
two sons, Allen, 8, and Lindsay, 4.
He is the son of Graham and Helen
Monroe of Raeford.
He is a member of the First
Presbyterian Church in New Bern,
is president of the Kiwanis Club, is
co-chairman of the Craven County
United Way Campaign, and is a
member of the New Bern-Craven,
Havelock, and Pamlico County
chambers of commerce.
Zan Monroe
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