NEWS RELEASE
PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
PO Box 567, Buies Creek, NC 27506
Tel: (910) 893-1224 w Fax: (910) 893-1922
School of Education to Hold Annual Banquet
The Friends of the School of Education at Campbell
University will hold their annual banquet on Thursday, March 18 at 6
p.m. in the Pine Burr Room of Marshbanks Dining Hall. Children's
writer Kimberly P. Johnson will be the featured speaker.
General Membership in the Friends of the School of Education
is $35 and includes admission to the banquet; student membership is $5;
student membership with banquet attendance is $10; and lifetime memberships
are $1,000. Gifts are accepted and can be made in honor or memory of a loved
one.
To make a reservation for the banquet or to receive a
membership application, please call Kathleen Kuster at (910) 893-1630 or (800)
334-4111, ext. 1630.
Johnson attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where she majored in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures. She earned
an associate's degree in Early Childhood Education and recently completed the
Advanced Poetry Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Johnson has written five children's books-"The Adventures of
the Itty Bitty Frog," "The Adventures of the Itty Bitty Bunny," "The
Adventures of the Itty Bitty Spider and the Itty Bitty Mouse," "Paperback
Poetry Part I" and "Tag-Along Fred."
She has been the guest speaker for numerous local and national
organizations, including Project Read to Me, Smart Start, National Reading
Associations, and Head Start.
Johnson, who was named one of Fayetteville Technical Community
College's Outstanding Alumni for 2002-2003, visits schools throughout the
United States speaking to adults and children about literacy and writing. She
conducts staff development workshops on how to motivate children in the
classroom. She also teaches creative writing to elementary and middle school
students. She is a member of the International Reading Association, Society of
Children's Book Writers, and Children's Book Insider. She currently serves as
a board member for the Triangle First Book organization and is a policy
council member of the Henly-Roberts Head Start Program.
A native of Shelby, NC, Johnson currently resides in Sanford,
NC. She has been a flight attendant for US Airways for 15 years. Her husband,
Jeff, serves in the United States Air Force.
The purpose of the Friends of the Campbell School of Education
is to provide advice, support, advancement, and assistance in recruitment for
the School of Education. The organization has also endowed a scholarship, the
Friends of the School of Education Scholarship, designated for graduate
students.
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