Cat in the Hat Month: Coming Soon!

Cat in the Hat Month Every March

The SigEp Feds initiated a new program in 2007 to introduce D.C.-area kids to the literary works of Dr. Seuss, a.k.a Theodore Geisel. Geisel who was a ΣΦΕ brother at Dartmouth University.

SigEp Feds alumni volunteers coordinate the program with elementary schools and after-school clubs such as the Boys & Girls Clubs and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. The program involves volunteers reading popular works of Dr. Seuss to kids.

Seuss Month is coming up in March and we need your help! We need volunteer readers for several more schools. Please contact Brandt Heatherington if you can volunteer during the first week in March 2009. Currently, all reading engagements are for the first week in March. If others are added for later in the month, they will be updated here.

Please contact Brandt Heatherington [BrandtH605@aol.com] at 703.307.1574 to volunteer.

Please download the FAQ sheet
on the Seuss project
(Click Here)!

The SigEp Feds Wish to Thank Participating Schools During Cat in the Hat Month 2008
Cora Kelly Middle School 3600 Commonwealth Avenue Alexandria, VA 22305	Mount Vernon Community School 2601 Commonwealth Avenue Alexandria, Virginia 22305
Colvin Run Elementary School 1400 Trap Road Vienna, VA 22182	Bren Mar Park Elementary 6344 Beryl Road Alexandria, VA 22312
Jefferson Houston School for Arts and Academics 1501 Cameron Street Alexandria, VA 22314	Gage-Eckington Elementary School 2025 3rd Street, NW Washington, DC 20001
Feedback from a participant Brother Robert Gilbertson (Retired Rear Admiral, US Navy) What a superb idea! I read to small children in elementary school on the birthday of Dr. Suess! I'm glad I volunteered. My reading was to the Gage-Eckington School in LeDroit Park - near Howard University -in Washington. There were about 35 pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students there - and perhaps a dozen teachers, aides, and the principal. I read for about an hour - with plenty of audience participation. I read the stories they requested - and already knew - so they could chime in whenever they wanted to. Reading is truly fundamental - SigEp is lucky to have had Dr. Seuss as a member. His creativity has stimulated so manyyoung minds. An excellent example of what a "Balanced Man" can do. I'm in for next year.