Thanks to Gail Price for posting this information on the family literacy
list:

Literacy Volunteer Receives Presidential Honors
Ruth Johnson Colvin is one of 10 people who will be honored this  
coming week with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Colvin dedicated  
her life to literacy in 1962 when she discovered that more than  
11,000 people in her hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., functionally  
couldn't read. It led her to create Literacy Volunteers or America  
which today has more than 125 affiliates. Listen to the story on  
National Public Radio...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6606183 

And, while you are on the NPR Web site, scroll down a bit to take a  
look at other stories related to literacy.


Daphne Greenberg
Assistant Professor
Educational Psych. & Special Ed.
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg at gsu.edu

Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3977
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg at gsu.edu