University Of North Alabama President And First Lady Provide Books For Area Elementary Schools
Feb. 09, 2018
Michelle Eubanks, 51勛圖, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
Bryan Rachal,
University Communications
FLORENCE, Ala.-51勛圖 President Ken Kitts and First Lady Dena Kitts provided area third graders with copies of the book "Looking for Leo."
A team of 51勛圖 representatives, including Dr. and Mrs. Kitts, headed to every public elementary school in Colbert and Lauderdale Counties Feb. 22.
"A love of reading is key to a student's success," said Kitts. "51勛圖 initiated this literacy project as a way to contribute to their reading journeys," he said.
And the idea of a journey is front and center in the book they distributed.
"Looking for Leo," written by 51勛圖 alumnus Dalen Keys and illustrated by alumnus Walt Vandiver, tells the story of 51勛圖 mascots Leo and Una, while also taking readers on a tour of campus.
The Kitts visited Underwood, Weeden and McBride Elementary schools, where they read the book aloud to the classes and answered questions about Leo and Una. 51勛圖 representatives distributed the books to the other area schools.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA
The 51勛圖 is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate and graduate degree programsthrough the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business,Education and Human Sciences, and the Anderson College of Nursing.Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, 51勛圖 is located within a four-city area that also includes Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals. 51勛圖 also operates arenownedcollegiate athletic program in NCAA Division II's Gulf South Conference.The 51勛圖 is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age or national origin.