| Cathy Kvien served on the board of directors
of the Tift County Foundation of Educational Excellence from January 1,
1998 until her untimely death this past Saturday. As a director,
she was optimistic, determined, self-effacing, diligent, sensative, insightful,
willing, dependable, intellignet, generous and altruistic.
As a member of the Incentive Grants Committee,
she played a key role in the Foundation's most vital mission ... allowing
teachers to put innovative ideas into practice. During her tenure,
86 grants totaling $64,000 were awarded.
As the Foundation's liason to Annie Bell Clark
Primary School, she was instrumental in establishing and enhancing the
Accelerated Reader program. Cathy often volunteered her time to read
with individual students. She piloted a Spanish program with a second
grade classroom and ended up doing weekly lessons with all five second
grade classes. This led to a grant for a native Spanish speaker to
work will all the kindergarten second grade classed.
Perhaps her greates Foundation contribution
was with the "Reading Capital of the World" campaign. She not only
focused the vision, but performed much of the real work. She authored
the major grants. She sis all the pilot testing and statistical analysis
with adult leteracy, migrant education, summer school and ESOL. She
lobbied for and shep
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Yours Truly,
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Jeff Durstewitz
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Co-author,
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Younger Than That Now
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