News Release| Read Across America; Cal State L.A.

February 19, 2010

MEDIA ADVISORY

CSULA student volunteers to serve up Green Eggs and Ham to local schoolchildren

Cal State L.A. joins the Read Across America initiative,
celebrates Dr. Seuss’ 106th by reading him aloud

Los Angeles, CA – Cal State L.A. will join the Cat in the Hat in bringing the fun of reading to schoolchildren at five local elementary schools as part of the National Education Association (NEA)’s Read Across America festivities.

On Feb. 26, Mar. 3 and Mar. 12, with a spirit that would make Whoville proud, teams of CSULA students will celebrate Dr. Seuss’s 106th birthday by bringing exciting, hands-on reading activities to young students at Ann Street, Anton, Huntington Drive, Kennedy, and 99th Street Elementary Schools (see listing below for times and locations).

To motivate them to read, the children will be treated to the Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham—which turns 50 this year—along with a Dr. Seuss birthday poetry, Dr. Seuss Jeopardy, and more. In addition, Cal State L.A.’s administrators will don red-and-white striped stovepipe hats—just like the Cat’s—at the schools to present book readings.

Throughout the year, 35 Cal State L.A. students tutor more than 350 children at the five local schools through the University’s EPIC (for Educational Participation in Communities) America Reads and Counts program.

Begun in 1998 to promote reading and literacy while celebrating the March 2, 1904, birthday of Dr. Seuss (the pseudonym of author Theodore Seuss Geisel), the NEA’s Read Across America has become a national tradition.

Photo Opportunities (all are in the schools’ auditoriums):

Friday, Feb. 26

Ann Street Elementary (126 E. Bloom Street, Los Angeles)

9 – 10 a.m.  and 1 – 2 p.m.

Huntington Drive Elementary (4435 N. Huntington Drive, Los Angeles)

1 – 2:30 p.m. 

Wednesday, March 3

Kennedy Elementary School (4010 E. Ramboz Drive, Los Angeles)

9 – 10 a.m. and 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Friday, March 12

Anton Elementary School (831 N. Bonnie Beach Pl., Los Angeles)

9 – 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. – noon  

Date: TBA

99th Street School (9900 Wadsworth Street, Los Angeles)

#  #  #

 

Media note: To get the most up-to-date news from Cal State L.A. delivered to your Facebook page, become a “CSULA News” fan by logging in or signing up today at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CSULA-News/123775222323.  

Working for California since 1947: The 175-acre hilltop campus of California State University, Los Angeles is at the heart of a major metropolitan city, just five miles from Los Angeles’ civic and cultural center. More than 20,000 students and 210,000 alumni—with a wide variety of interests, ages and backgrounds—reflect the city’s dynamic mix of populations. Six Colleges offer nationally recognized science, arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and humanities programs, among others, led by an award-winning faculty. Cal State L.A. is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra and to a unique university center for gifted students as young as 12. Programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and community include an NEH- and Rockefeller-supported humanities center; a NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science program, housed in the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center. www.calstatela.edu