The most sincere, profound, and heartfelt thank you ever to the very special people who’ve donated to Phyl’s book scholarship. It means so much to me. It will be ready to go this school year, thanks to California Readers, a wonderful group of primarily Los Angeles Unified School District librarians, but foremost Phyllis’ friends. Our utmost gratitude to Phyl’s special pals Candy and Dick, and, of course Tammie Celi. And to President Karla and Awards Chair Claire. Right now, it looks to be about 3 years of around 40 LAUSD librarians each choosing a student each year to receive a scholarship of $25 gift cards from Barnes and Noble to California Readers, usable online with free postage and handling. I’ll be administering it, so I’ll fund it after that. As Phyl’s passion (or really, as you that know her; one of Phyl’s myriad passions) was the student helper who finds a home in the library, and who is seldom recognized academically, or especially socially. As those are quite unique cririteria, although each librarian will choose their recipient, we’ve developed a way the award will seem random to the students. Again, my dearest gratitude. Here’s the tentative California Readers scholarship announcement: PHYLLIS BENNETT MEMORIAL BOOK SCHOLARSHIP Phyllis Bennett was one of the very first credentialed reading specialists in the state of California. The most recent and beloved position of her 36 year career was school librarian at Patrick Henry. Phyllis adored her students, and her students adored her. Phyllis and her students won many academic awards, yet her first love was what she called the disenfranchised student. With computers and waning district funds diminishing school libraries, Phyllis was passionate about yet another unnoticed value of the present-day library; as a safe haven for the lonely, bullied, friendless, or problem student. Annually, these students as defined will be designated by public school librarians to receive book scholarships in Phyllis’ name to honor her as a member of California Readers and for her outstanding contribution to the field of librarianship.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 07:35:13 +0000
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