NLA Info: Women and Literacy listserv discussion

[DJRosen@world.std.com]

Daphne Greenberg, Moderator of NIFL-Womenlit, would like you to know that
she will be facilitating with Pat Blackwell an email discussion on female
adult learners and leadership. Pat will be running the discussion from
Monday, June 19th, through Wednesday June 28th.  Here is the topic that
Pat would like people to think about:

Why is it important for women to learn to read?

Pat will share her experiences, her struggles, and her triumphs during
her personal literacy route.
  
If you are interested, you can subscribe to the women and literacy
list from June 19 - June 28th, and then you can unsubscribe. (To subscribe
or unsubscribe, go to   www.nifl.gov/lincs    Click on the discussions
button, wend your way to NIFL-Womenlit, and then to the subscribe
instructions.  You can subscribe to or unsubscribe from any NIFL
electronic list -- and some others -- from the LINCS Web page.)

This is what Pat would like everyone to know about herself:

"I am a nurse in the PCU unit of the Bloomington Hospital, that is a
step-down unit from intensive care. We have heart monitors, and each
person in our unit is having a heart attack or has had one. I've worked
there for 9 years.  I have 4 grown kids and 8 grandkids and one more due
Oct.2000.  I am 56 years old and quit school after the 8th grade reading
at a 6th grade level, I had a tutor one on one for 4 years and could read
good enough to go to nursing school.  I am the chair for Indiana Literacy
Coalition, for 2000 , I serve on the LLa board as student advisor and the
VALUE board.  I speak all over the country to adults who need to learn to
read etc. and to schools and where ever I can."

David J. Rosen
NLA List Moderator