Published February 18. 2015 04:00PM
The Weatherly Area High School Alumni Association donated $500 to the Weatherly Area School District's Read Across America program. Read Across America will be celebratedat Weatherly on March 2 with guest readers and a luncheon. Present for the donation were: Todd A. Gimbi, WAHSAA president; Barbara Sipler, Weatherly Program Coordinator and Title 1 teacher; Sue Ann Gerhard, WAHSAA treasurer, and Thomas McLaughlin, superintendentof Weatherly Area School District. Read Across America was established in 1997 when the National Education Association pushed for a special day to celebrate the benefitsof reading. The date, March 2, coincides with the birthday of Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel, writer of numerous children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss.
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