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BARBARA WALTERS TO APPEAR AT BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE |
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| Project Literacy of Bergen County will present “A Conversation with Barbara |
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Walters” on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bergen Community
College Gymnasium, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ. Ticket prices are: $20 for regular seating and $45 for upfront seating and a free copy of Ms. Walters’ new book, Audition: A Memoir. For tickets call Bergen Community College Office of Community and Cultural Affairs at 201-447-7428 or go online to http://tickets.bergen.edu. All proceeds from the evening will go to support Project Literacy, a non-profit organization dedicated to solving the crisis in adult literacy affecting an estimated 30 million Americans and one in five residents of Bergen County. |
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| Ms. Walters will be interviewed by Dr. G. Jeremiah Ryan, president of Bergen Community College. In her long-awaited memoir, Ms. Walters writes with candor about her private life and professional career reflecting on the choices she has made, the work she has done, the people she has met, and the heartbreak and challenges she has coped with along the way. |
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| Barbara Walters has arguably interviewed more statesmen and stars than any other journalist in history. She is known to daytime television viewers as a panelist on ABC’s “The View,” recipient of the 2003 Daytime Emmy Award. She is also the program’s co-executive producer. Ms. Walters made journalism history by arranging the first joint interview with Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1977. Another of her “firsts” was an hour-long primetime conversation with Cuban President Fidel Castro—an interview that was printed in a half-dozen languages and shown all over the world. At the other extreme, in 1999 Ms. Walters conducted the first television interview with Monica Lewinsky for ABC News, which became the highest-rated news program ever broadcast by a single network. |
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| In September 2004, after 25 years as the co-host and chief correspondent of ABC News’ “20/20,” Ms. Walters left the show to begin a new phase in her career at the network. She remains an active member of the news division and network, substantially increasing the number of primetime ABC News specials, in addition to her highly-rated “Barbara Walters Specials.” Ms. Walters joined ABC News in 1976 as the first woman to co-host the network news. |
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PROJECT LITERACY CHOSEN FOR GRANT BY DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY
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| This year the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded a grant of $7500 to Project Literacy of Bergen County in Hackensack. Project Literacy was one of four adult literacy programs in New Jersey to receive a grant from the foundation which donates $4.9 million to 327 non-profit organizations in the fight against illiteracy. The grant was for continuing support of Project Literacy’s volunteer tutor training program. |
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| "The Dollar General Literacy Foundation is proud to help our neighbors learn to read and improve their education through these grants," said Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling. "Each grant recipient is doing tremendous work, offering hope to those who want to better their own lives through literacy and education. We are delighted to make the educational dreams of others a reality through our grant programs." |
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| Since its inception, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation of Goodlettsville, Tennessee has awarded grants totaling more than $24.5 million. In addition to cash grants, Dollar General's Learn to Read free literacy referral program has directed more than 50,000 individuals to organizations in their respective communities that help people learn to read. |
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| Project Literacy of Bergen County provides 12 hours of training to its volunteers who work one-to-one with students who need help with reading, writing, English speaking-skills, and preparing for their high-school equivalency tests. |
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... help an adult learn to read
… promote literacy in Bergen County
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… for yourself, a family member or friend
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| We would like to increase the capacity of our volunteer tutoring program from serving 75 students to serving 150 or more students by the end of 2008. We would also like to increase the performance levels of at least 75% of our students by at least one level. We feel that these goals can be best |
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