Page last updated on February 16, 2001
Last winter and spring, using money donated in memory of chapter member Lee Warner, we launched another books-to-schools program. The executive committee resolved to purchase field guides and distribute them to area school libraries. Here's where we stand on the project: Working with the fine folks at the American Birding Association, we were able to purchase 35 copies of the National Geographic Field Guide to Birds at a very reasonable price. A special bookplate was designed and approved. Through the generosity of S.E. Jones Associates, and our newsletter printer, Rich Corbett at CPP, the cost of these facets of the project to the chapter will be minimal. We are still having difficulty finding the right people in the school systems to work with on distribution. If you have any contacts with anyone in any school system within our chapter area, please send a e-mail to Clyde Witt, clydew@bright.net.
In the Feb/Mar 2001 newsletter we announced that copies of the field guides had been distributed to a local school and the Summit County Library for all branches and bookmobiles.
Previously, the chapter initiated a program of donating books to public school libraries. With the help of Michael and Linda Osherow of Wild Bird Center, the GAAS was able to donate a total of 115 books to 14 different schools. It seems to us that, in a time when library budgets are ever-shrinking -- and the lure of using the money to buy computer software ever greater -- donating books is a terrific idea. Our hope for the future -- the environmentalists who will be -- lies with our children. It is our plan that this will be an ongoing program, and that we will be able to donate books to another group of schools each year.
Each of the books has a book plate on the inside front cover. These plates were designed by Jenny Brumfield, one of our younger members and an active birder.
Title lists for Audubon Books-in-the Schools program:
The following schools received books in early 1996:
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