First Lady Karen Baldacci Reads to Bar Harbor Elementary Students From Books Donated By The Jackson Laboratory
| Date: May 4, 2004 | 
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What: First Lady Karen Baldacci reads to Connors Emerson School students, presents mouse-themed books to school in honor of The Jackson Laboratory’s employees
Where: Connors Emerson School, Bar Harbor
When: Friday, May 7, 2004, 12:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Who: First Lady Karen Baldacci
Barb Neilly, Principal, Connors Emerson School
Kristi McIntire, Librarian, Connors Emerson School
Rick Woychik, Ph.D., Director, The Jackson Laboratory
James Osterholt, Vice President for External Relations, The Jackson Laboratory
Jill Goldthwait, Director of Government Relations, The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine—The Business of Reading program at the Connors Emerson School in Bar Harbor brings members of the community to the school to read to young people and inspire them to find lifelong enjoyment in books. First Lady Karen Baldacci, an active advocate of childhood and adult literacy, will read to a Connors Emerson kindergarten class on Friday, May 7.
Mrs. Baldacci will be reading from a book with a mouse character or theme—one of a collection of books that will be presented to Connors Emerson that day to celebrate the 75th anniversary of The Jackson Laboratory. Mrs. Baldacci and Laboratory officials, including Director Rick Woychik, are presenting the books on behalf of the employees of the Bar Harbor laboratory.
Laboratory officials will be presenting comparable collections of books to Mount Desert Island’s other elementary schools in the coming weeks.
Mrs. Baldacci is Honorary Chair of Maine Reads, the Maine Alliance for Arts in Education and Read with Me. She is a board member of Raising Readers, and is actively involved in the Community Literacy Project and Adult and Family Literacy.
The week-long Business of Reading Festival, now in its eighth year, brings more than 100 community members of diverse backgrounds to the Connors Emerson School to read and share the joy of reading with children in grades K-6.
With more than 1,300 employees and an operating budget of $127 million, the 75-year-old Jackson Laboratory is one of Maine's largest employers. Its 350-person research staff investigates the genetic basis of cancers, heart disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, glaucoma, diabetes and many other human diseases and disorders. The Laboratory is also home of the Mouse Genome Database and many other publicly available information resources, and is an international hub for scientific courses, conferences, training and education—including programs for Maine primary school, high school, college and graduate students.
Contact(s): Joyce Peterson, 207-288-6058, joyce@jax.org
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