Young 'Author
AV 13 -19,1985 THE CITIZEN
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share works at annual meet
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BENTO HARBOR - CIa -
ere spended for the day
for 172 "Young Author ", ho
. h their parent, spent the
day at the e' chigan Col-
ge Community Center, t a
daylong conference for inner
in the Benton Harbor Are
Schoo ' program.
Jerilee Gregory, coordinator
of re ding for the schools,
id the finalists ere from
gr de thru 6, from the 12 .
elem ntary schools, plu on
te ri-Boynton, the Creative
Arts Academy, and the Gifted
and Tal nted program.
Gregory said all the districts
tudent participated in the
initial stages of the year-Ion
program.
Student re d orie and
torybooks, and then each
tudent wrote
and teacher picking the win-
nen. Gregory said hope
to expand the program into
the junior high grade next
year.
"There' dreadful need to
get them bac to the pleasure
and joys of reading . . . and
reading a sparetirne activity",
Gregory said. "In TV· .
dominated society like ours,
that's important.'
During the fir hours of the
conference, each author took
his or her book around with
them, and shared what they
had written with others.
"That act of creativity is
a motivator," Gregory aid,
dding that it get children
into reading more, and help
them de elop creative communi
cations skill. Sh said tudies
conducted b Dr. Harry Hahn,
legion tryouts
0.410
will be
Bring ba ball glove and ap
propriate oe. All boys ge
16 to 18 yean old are invited.
in day will be Sunday,
ay 19, 1985.
at Oakland Univer tty in Detroit
w that participant in young
authors conference receive skill
that will help them later in
school.
The lection of writin
were "very delightful", Gregory
felt, saying "we got the full
pectrum 0 books" from the
tudents. Sh said som authors
illustrated their own books
hile other tudents collabo
rated - one student writing,
the other one illustr ting.
The conference participants,
fter sharing their work. h d
th port unity to li en to
cIa ic fairy tale from round
the world pre nted by William
He 11, the director of the
library at C. Each young
author also received certifi
cate from Superintendant Harry
Stephen.
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