APPALREAD’s 2008-2009 class of AmeriCorps members met First Lady Gayle Manchin on the Logan Campus, August 6, 2008. The AmeriCorps members will be serving as reading coaches in elementary schools across Boone, Logan, and Mingo Counties during the coming school year. APPALREAD is a program of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College and is funded in part by the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service and The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.

Pictured left to right, front row: Sarah Howell, and Jessica Cooper. Second row, Mary Spaulding, Whitney Kessler, Pauline Sturgill (APPALREAD’s Director), First Lady Gayle Manchin, Susan Trammell, Sandra Cox, Kayla New, Angela Dotson (APPALREAD Coordinator), and Tensia Spence. Third row: Anita Purdue, Donna Blankenship, Tiffany Lowe, Joyce Hill, Tonia Fitchpatrick, Michelle Steele, Samantha Wilson, and Carolyn Lucas.