Supporting Service and Schooling

Karla Gallo Selby ’92, a librarian at Drake Community Library in Grinnell, received a $1,500 Schwab grant to bring a visiting artist, who happens to be the mother of a current Grinnell student, to the library to conduct an “altered books” workshop, an intergenerational community arts and literacy project.

International educator Dorje Gurung ’94 made global headlines when he was unjustly imprisoned in Qatar last year. Now free, he will use his $1,500 Schwab grant to begin a program that will integrate the science involved in gardening with the science curriculum taught in the classroom.

Byron Johnson ’93 is an elementary literacy tutor with Minnesota Reading Corps. He will use an $800 Schwab grant to purchase books and establish a lending library for students in Duluth, Minn. This lending library will encourage reading at home, reinforcing skills learned at school and helping students become more confident in their reading skills.