Laubach Literacy of Canada would like to welcome the following newly elected members its Board of Directors:

Robert S. Laubach was born in 1918 in Manila, Philippines, where his parents, Frank and Effa Laubach, were Congregational missionaries.

"Dr. Bob," as he likes to be called, was a teenager when his father developed the EACH ONE TEACH ONE literacy method among the Muslims on the island of Mindanao.

As a teenager in the Philippines, he helped in the literacy work afternoons after high school and on Saturdays. He learned to set type and help print booklets for new readers. This experience set him on the road of a lifetime in literacy.

Bob graduated from Wooster College (Ohio) in 1941. In 1946, he began working in literacy with his father. During the next six years, he travailed on Laubach literacy teams to some 65 countries in Africa and Asia.

In 1951, he went to Syracuse University for graduate work in journalism. He taught literacy journalism there until 1981, earning his Ph.D. in reading education in 1963.

Dr. Bob is co-author of The Laubach Way to Reading, Using Readability and Toward World Literacy. In 1959, he started News for You, the newspaper for new readers, and New Readers Press, the publishing division of Laubach Literacy International.

From 1963 to 1982 he served Laubach Literacy in various capacities, including Director of Publishing, President and Chairman of the Board.

Connect is a national newsletter on technology in adult literacy. The publication reports on the ways technology is currently being used in literacy programs, promotes the appropriate use of technology in these programs and offers information on the use of technology in curriculum.

Connect includes reports from the field, reports from learners, lesson plans, ideas and software reviews. It is available for $5/year for five issues OR it can be viewed and downloaded at no cost from the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) at <http://www.nald.ca> OR from AlphaCom.

CONNECT, Pauline McNaughton, Editor, Continuing Education Centre, Ottawa Board of Education, 515 Cambridge Street S., Ottawa, ON K1S 4H9.
Tel.: 613-239-2656 Fax: 613-239-2429
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Email: <pmcnaugh@obe.edu.on.ca>

Nineteen LLC members were trained by Cate Durant and Grace Saabas at the Winnipeg Conference to deliver the Family Literacy workshop series, Creating a Learning Culture in the Home . They are:

If your council would be interested in hosting one of the three family literacy workshops, please contact the Development Office to find out how to reach these family literacy trainers.