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Green Named New Coordinator For Learn To Read Of Century
August 13, 2009
Patsy Green of Bluff Springs has been hired as the new volunteer coordinator for Learn to Read of Century.
Green, a retired educator, has served as a volunteer for the past few years at Learn To Read, teaching adults reading skills.
“It’s a very good program,” she said. “We are all aware that some folks come through school and can’t read. I’m so happy that this program gives people the opportunity to learn to read.”
Learn to Read of Northwest Florida is a non-profit adult literacy program in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties that provides free one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and writing, GED preparation and English as a second language.
As a Learn to Read volunteer, Green has spent the past couple of years teaching a man in his early 30’s to read. Green said he is now getting a job after improving his reading skills.
“Reading was a big confidence boost that contributed to him getting the job,” she said.
She takes pride in another of her student’s accomplishments.
“Learning to read allows him to read his Bible,” she said. “He was excited that he was able to read two pages of his Bible Monday night at his Bible study.”
Green is a native of the Century area. She was, in fact, born in the former hospital building that now houses Learn to Read of Century. She is graduate of Century High School, Pensacola Junior College and the University of Florida. She taught at Century Middle School, Century Elementary and Carver/Century K-8 School for a total of 30 years, interrupted only by a one year leave to attend Auburn University for a M.Ed. in specific learning disabilities and a five year period to be home with her sons.
After her retirement from Carver/Century, she has, in addition to tutoring for Learn to Read, privately tutored a math student; substituted at Carver/Century, Byrneville Elementary and Westgate School; volunteered at Carver/Century; and served as leader of TOPS #125 of McDavid.
Patsy Green and her husband David reside in Bluff Springs. Sons Marcus and John now live and work in Pensacola. She is a member of Grace Baptist Church in McDavid where she serves as youth leader, serves as assistant youth director for the Baptist Missionary Association of Northwest Florida and is coordinator of the L.J. Stewart Baptist Camp.
For more information on Learn to Read of Century, call (850) 256-0880.
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13 Responses to “Green Named New Coordinator For Learn To Read Of Century”
Patsy, it has been great have been a part of the family with you and Wild Bill all my life. You both have taught me so much about life and the great living in McDavid. Everyone in McDavid helps everyone else out!. I remember numerous time when My Grandma and other neighborhood Moms and Grandmas got together to quilt, make dinners for sick folks, funeral dinners, match up printed feed sacks to make summer clothes out of, baby sit, sit and talk a spell, Sunday dinners on the church grounds, VBS, the creek, and the list goes on. You are such a patient joyful person and always put up with me pestering you. you can take the girl out of Mcdavid, but you cannot take the McDavid out of the girl has never been so true!
Great going Patsy! What an inspiration you are to me! You are really showing what all us McDavid kids can do when we put our mind to it. Volunteering is such a pay it forward, rewarding job. you are like a sister to me and I hope to be helping you one day soon. It has been a priviledge to have known you all my life and to be a proud MC David Elementary graduate!!!
Good going Patsy!!good to know somebodys helping in Northwest Florida…Love ya’
Contragulations, Patsy! LTR is blessed to have you! muns1970, don’t be too critical…”a couple of years of volunteering” has amounted to 1.5-hour sessions twice a week year-round…not to mention training, record-keeping, and lesson planning! As a coordinator, Mrs. Green will be responsible for recruitment, training and placement of volunteers, recruiting students, and monitoring the program. Would you do that for free???? There are many individuals who leave school unable to read, or read well, for many reasons. It takes a lot of dedication and courage to admit that you have difficulties reading; especially when faced with people as judgemental as some folks can be! Thank goodness Learn to Read is providing volunteers to help!
You go,Patsy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for all you do.
I love you Aunt Patsy! You just keep on giving. Thank you for all you do for our community.
MUNS: HIS PROBLEM OF NOT BEING ABLE TO READ IS MUCH LIKE YOURS IS IN NOT BEING ABLE TO SPELL. LOOK REAL CLOSE AT YOUR POST. BIGGEST PROBLEM IS PEOPLE DO NOT PAY ATTENTION.
MUNS: first of all, the article didn’t say the 30-year old man “had” finished school. It just said he was learning to read. We don’t know his circumstances, but at least someone was there to help him and obviously he wanted to help himself as well.
Does it really matter if the position is a paid one or not? I don’t see people knocking down doors ready and willing to help others. Here is someone who is willing to do that and that says something in itself right there.
It just boggles my mind that when we finally have something positive to read about, someone always has something negative to say.
I’m always happy to read positive articles and I hope Mrs. Green is able to help lots of folks.
Y’all don’t get carried away about this now! I’m sure Mrs. Green is all that ,but remember, this is a paid position. She is not doing this for free! DUH! And one more thought, if the thirty year old man finished school, why cain’t he read? This is not saying a lot for the school system…..or maybe it’s saying everything.
Great for you, Patsy, how wonderful in oh, so many ways, for oh, so many people…let me know how I can help, too !
Way to go, Patsy,you can’t stop giving, it’s just in your nature. It’s been a blessing to have known you all your life.
Patsy Green is one of the finest individuals around. I have witnessed her unselfish giving from a distance for years. She is a gift to her community and all of the lives she has touched. Patsy let’s her actions speak for her! Thank you for all of your work. What a pleasure to witness the great side of humanity.