American Literacy Corporation

January 9, 2012

Attention Men:

The 100 Men Reading Day VIII (Celebrating Read Across America and Dr. Seuss’s Birthday) is Friday, March 2 from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Harrisburg School District (HSD) and Steelton-Highspire Elementary School. The honorary chair of the 100 Men Reading Day VIII is Ron Claiborne of ABC Good Morning America. Mr. Claiborne is excited about participating in the program and the opportunity to read to students in the Harrisburg area. The purpose of the 100 Men Reading Day VIII is to encourage men to read to elementary students. Please join us by filling out the form on the following page.

Each reader will spend about 25 minutes with each group of students. Each reader will visit with three different groups of students. During the visit, readers will share a couple of books, talk about what they do for a living, and encourage the students to do well in school. Stories that address character development such as honesty, kindness, sharing and acceptance, as well as, ones that are entertaining will be chosen. Before the readers go to the schools, there will be an orientation and breakfast at 7:30 a.m. at Camp Curtin Elementary School Cafeteria, 2900 N 6th St, Harrisburg, PA for the orientation.

The 100 Men Reading Day VIII is a program of the American Literacy Corporation (ALC) which is a non-profit organization that promotes reading to elementary school students. Since 2001, the ALC has promoted reading to over 110,000 children in all 50 states. Additionally, the ALC gives thousands of books to children annually.

Thank you in advance for considering this request. If you have any questions, please contact me at (717) 580-5429. You may also visit our website at www.superreader.org.

Sincerely,



Floyd Stokes

Executive Director

Honorary Chair of The 100 Men Reading Day VIII
Friday, March 2, 2012

Ron Claiborne is the news anchor for ABC News’ weekend edition of “Good Morning America.”

Claiborne joined ABC News in 1986. In addition to his news anchor duties, he is a general assignment correspondent based in New York, reporting for “World News with Diane Sawyer” and “Good Morning America.” Claiborne has previously worked in the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Boston bureaus of ABC News. He has also covered international stories in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, China, South America, Africa and Europe.

In 2007 and 2008, Claiborne covered the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain. He has also covered such stories as the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2002 and 2003, the Elian Gonzalez custody case in Miami in 1999 to 2000, the Yugoslavia conflict in Belgrade in 1999, the 2000 Bush presidential campaign, the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. During the 2003 Iraq War, he reported from the Persian Gulf region and was “embedded” on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.

Claiborne was part of the ABC News team that won a 2000 Emmy Award for coverage of the seizure of Elian Gonzalez in Miami. In 2003, he was an Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, affiliated with the University of Washington.

Prior to joining ABC News, he was a general assignment correspondent for WNYW-TV, New York from 1982 to 1986. He was a reporter for the New York Daily News from 1980 to 1982 and a reporter and national editor for United Press International in New York, from 1977 until 1980.

Claiborne earned an MS in journalism in 1975 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He received a BA in psychology from Yale University in 1974. He is a native of San Francisco, Calif., and grew up in Oakland, Calif., and Los Angeles.

For those interested in attending please download and fill out the following form and email the completed form to Superreaders@aol.com