[Reading-hall-of-fame] Veterans Day 2024

[Thomas Sticht]

Colleagues: Veterans Day is observed on November 11th to honor all those
who have served in the armed forces of the United States. Among these are
many educators who have performed their military service by teaching
undereducated military recruits how to improve their literacy skills to
better perform their jobs and to communicate with loved ones back home.

To celebrate these many military literacy teachers and their military adult
learners I am offering a free drawing in which I will send each of three
winners of the drawing one of three sets of original materials written by
adult educators ranging from those used in World War II and others used in
later wars (Korea; Vietnam) and peacetime.

1. First Winner drawn from the bowl into which I will place the names of
those entering the random drawing will receive a copy of Samuel Goldberg's
302 page classic book entitled "Army Training of Illiterates in World War
II" reporting on the World War II literacy programs that taught reading and
language arts to thousands of recruits; and with this book will come the
well illustrated World War II  War Department Pamphlet 21-13 dated 10
August 1944 entitled "Army Life" used to orient new literate recruits about
their activities  in the U. S. Army.

2. Second Winner will receive a 1956 copy of "Men in the Armed Forces: A
Serviceman's Reader" with its highly illustrated drawings of the fictional
Private Pete entering and serving in the U.S. Army and includes stories of
Navy and Air Force personnel; and a 1979 copy of "Improving Your Navy
Reading Skills" used in the Navy's Academic Remedial Training programs.

3. Third Winner will receive the two volume set of the 1966 Books 1 and 2
about "Navy Life: Reading and Writing for Success in the Navy";   and a
1979 copy of "Improving Your Navy Reading Skills" used in the Navy's
Academic Remedial Training programs.

If you are interested in joining in this drawing for military adult
literacy education materials from World War II, the Vietnam war era, and in
the non-draft, volunteer military  of the 1970s just send me an email saying
“enter me in the drawing” and include your snail mail address so in case
you win I can mail the materials to you.  I will send winners of the
drawing their prizes free of charge via the U.S. postal service to the
address the winners provide for me. You can share this drawing call with
others you think would like to enter.

To further celebrate the many military literacy teacher veterans  and their
adult learner veterans I have compiled a number of brief research notes
that I have written over the years into one report entitled, “FIGHTING
ILLITERACY IN TIMES OF WAR: An anthology of brief historical notes”. These
notes discuss the work of such notable literacy teachers of military
students as Captain Garry and Caroline Clark during the World War I era,
who later went on to found the great magazine to help children learn to
read called Highlights for Children! Another note talks about the World War
II work of the famous musician and actor, Desi Arnaz, of I Love Lucy fame,
in teaching U.S. Army personnel to read.

Ranging from the Revolutionary War through World Wars I and II, Korea,
Vietnam and Iraq wars, the FIGHTING ILLITERACY IN TIMES OF WAR report
discusses how the armed forces taught literacy skills, study skills (the
famous SQ3R strategy), and founded the General Educational Development
(GED) certificate for personnel who had not completed their high school
degrees during World War II and which thousands of civilian adult learners
now complete each year in the United States and Canada.

Now, when I celebrate Veteran's Day, I have a special place in my thoughts
for the hundreds of thousands of undereducated, less literate veterans who
have served our nation honorably. I also think of the thousands of veteran
adult literacy educators who, through their dedication to fighting
illiteracy, have helped thousands of these military personnel succeed. I
have visited the National World War II museum in New Orleans, the Korean
and Vietnam War memorials in Washington DC, but I have found no stone
monuments to these veterans of literacy education, teachers and learners
alike.  But I know that our nation's struggle for freedom has relied upon
books as well as on bullets and bombs!

 The report on Fighting Illiteracy in Times of War is available online at:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320024840_FIGHTING_ILLITERACY_IN_TIMES_OF_WAR_An_anthology_of_brief_historical_notes_by_Tom_Sticht

Tom Sticht


PS: Like this drawing, my first three drawings each made three awards and
the winners of these awards were:


Heidi R. Bacon, Assistant Professor of Language, Literacies, and Culture,
College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois  University,
Carbondale, Illinois.



Belinda Biscoe, Senior Associate Vice President for University Outreach,
University of Oklahoma and Member of the International Adult and Continuing
Education Hall of Fame



Dena Giacometti, Program Director, Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition



Daphne Greenberg, Distinguished University Professor and Director of the
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy, Georgia State University, Atlanta,
Georgia



Carol Rachfalski, Adult High School teacher, Cherry Hill, New Jersey



Thelma M. Regan, Director, Piscataquis Valley Adult Education Cooperative,
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine



Donita Joy Shaw, Associate Professor, Literacy Education, Oklahoma State
University, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma



Norman Stahl, Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University and Member
of the international Reading Hall of Fame (a winner in both the 1st and 2nd
 drawings)



These previous winners are welcome to enter this new lottery drawing, too.
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