Though the Daybreak Rotary Club has been giving to Jane Phillips Elementary School for the last six years, the organization had a special treat for students and staff members on the morning of Sept. 12.
Daybreak representatives brought in a new bookcase for the school stocked with several new titles. The group presented principal Ken Copeland with a check to purchase more books as well during the school's regular “Rise and Shine” assembly.
Every Friday morning, prior to the “Rise and Shine” assembly which precedes the start of the regular school day, Daybreak volunteers gather in a classroom to read to students. The gathering is a volunteer activity for students as well as a great way for them to hone their literary skills. Several students take part in the program each week.
“The relationship between the Daybreak Rotary Club and Jane Phillips Elementary School has been a great one,” says Mike Bass, a Daybreak member and one of the organizers of the program. “We usually have seven or eight members come out to the school every Friday to read with students.”
Among the Daybreak representatives who were on hand to present the check during this morning's assembly were president Sara McGee, the Bartlesville Public Library's Joan Singleton, Marion Reis, Bass and Gene O'Rear, who built the bookcase.
Volunteers from the Daybreak Rotary Club in Bartlesville read to students at Jane Phillips Elementary School every Friday morning, a tradition which has carried on for the last six years.