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Encouraging the Love for Reading The Book ’em Program
The Law Foundation of Berks County continued their annual tradition of encouraging the love of reading in Reading. The Book ’Em program was headed up by volunteer JoAnn Lightman and Law Journal Secretary Rose Johnson. The program provides books for students in pre-k and kindergarten in the Reading School District. Our Berks County Bar Association members volunteered to read to the students and hand out their very own copy of Pig the Pug and If You Give a Pig A Party, this year’s selections for stories. The Foundation also collected $3,600 in donations, which helps to fund the future of this important program. Partnering with the community and continuing to be a presence in the lives of youth in Berks County is part of the guiding mission of the Law Foundation. The students were thankful for the books and sent in a stack of thank you messages that measured a foot high. Still that doesn’t compare to the heights that these kids will reach, with the solid love of reading that the Foundation works to instill in them at the beginning of their school experience.
Bar Association President James M. Smith shared his love of reading with the pre-k students at 12th & Merion Elementary School.
Magisterial District Judge Eric Taylor had books for all the students in the pre-kindergarten class at Amanda Stoudt Elementary. The students were excited to receive their own book, courtesy of the Law Foundation of Berks County. James M. Smith, Bar Association President, shares a laugh with one of the first graders in the classroom.
2022 Book ’Em Volunteers Roarke Aston Jana Barnett Kourtney Bernecker Tim Bitting Justin Bodor Beth Bowers Lucy Brito Steve Buck MDJ Tonya Butler Nick Capitano Karen Cook Michael Dautrich Colleen Dugan Carolyn Fair John Fielding Debra Franklin Jeffrey Franklin Rose Johnson Jill Koestel Melissa Krishock Jay Kurtz Jesse Leisawitz Joan London George Lutz Lori Mentzer Rosalynda Michetti Larry Miller Kenneth Millman Ken Myers James Polyak Douglas Rauch Latisha Schuenemann Lou Shucker Lisa Sicilliano James Smith Debbie Sottosanti Judge Jeffrey Sprecher Summer Swanson MDJ Eric Taylor Jacob Thielen Pam VanFossen 2022 Book ’Em Donors Mary Ellen Batman Tom Bell Tim Bitting William Blumer Michael Bradley & Jennifer M. Lukach Bradley Ken Brown Eden Bucher Steven D. Buck The students in Miss Snyder’s kindergarten class at Millmont Elementary were delighted to have James Polyak of Polyak Law Offices as their special mystery reader. Smith Bukowski Karen Cook Alfred Crump Jr. Wendy & Merle Dunkelberger, Jr. James A. Gilmartin Daniel Huyett Beth Kohl Constantine & Aspasia Kotsakis Melissa Krishock Howard & Joanne Lightman Law offices of Nikolas D. Capitano Paul Marrella J. Randall Miller: Berkshire Inventment Group Ken Millman Kenneth Myers America Nievies-Febres Mike & Mary Jean Noon Jesse Pleet James Polyak Douglas Rauch William Roberts James Rothstein & Sharon Scullin Jill Scheidt Jim Snyder Deborah Sottosanti Edwin L. Stock Pam VanFossen Terry & Pat Weiler
