Project #1
NEEDHAM BRYAN CHAPTER’S ADOPT-A-CLASS PROJECT (March 2006)
Phyllis Howell's Third Grade (picture below)
Mobile, Alabama
A member (Mary Grimes) in the recording booth where the books were read.
In the booklet of needs and wants of the various grade levels at KDS, provided to the Needham Bryan Chapter DAR by State School Chairman, Beth Cagle, for the Adopt-A-Class Project, the third grade class of Phyllis Howell picked our chapter (the book opened to her page when we first started to think about a project). They asked for a group of DAR ladies to record books on tape for the class.
The Chapter arranged with WHIL Radio Reading Service, the local public radio substation (which broadcasts written material--newspapers, magazines, etc. for the blind) to help us with this project. Brad Martin and Jonathan Adler have been most helpful in providing their recording booths for us to come in and record these books. They will help us convert them to CD’s for the school to use.
Mrs. Howell at KDS provided us with a list of books for her third grade that are in their library. The Mobile Public Library was most gracious to pull the books from the shelves for us so we didn’t have to spend hours hunting for them. They pulled, we checked them out, read them at the studios of WHIL and then returned them to the Library. Of course, we always began our reading of the books by giving full credit to the author, illustrator, publisher, copyright date, etc. When finished in December 2005 we had recorded 33 books on CD’s to be presented to the school at the Alabama Society state conference in March (approximately 20 hours of reading, editing and organizing). The 14 chapter members that participated in reading thge books included our regent, Elizabeth Thigpen, Tanya Scott, Mary McDonald, Charlotte Thigpen, Jayne Chiepalich, Debbie Hodges, Mary Grimes, Madris Plank, Charlotte Thigpen, Mary Grace Pearson, Dr. Laura Davis, Lynne McElhaney, Cheryl Hudson and Mary Brockman. We all look forward to this being an annual project with each year getting better than the last one!
The Chapter members have had so much fun being "recording personalities" that we all feel like celebrities already.
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| Brad Martin, the ‘computer whiz’ behind WHIL | A member (Madris Plank) reading a Mrs. Howell & her Third Grade Class (2005) |
| Radio Reading Service, and blind from birth | book in the recording booth. |
| Our ‘leader’ in this effort helping Madris. |