Dear Janis:
Here is the announcement you requested.  It was nice to see you at ECU.  I
stayed for Poetry Alive, which was not as good as past performances.
Perhaps that was because I sat at the back of the room and could not hear
very well.  The performers needed microphones.  Those sitting up front
seemed to enjoy it a lot.  Martha

The National Council for Social Studies has selected Martha Rhynes as the
recipient of a Carter G. Woodson award for her biography, Gwendolyn Brooks:
Poet from Chicago, published by Morgan Reynolds (2004) for Grades 7-12.
Rhynes will receive the award at the NCSS convention in Baltimore on
November 19-20.  The selection committee said the book "depicts ethnicity in
the United States with sensitivity and accuracy."  Carter G. Woodson is the
Father of Black History.  Beginning in 1915, he compiled sociological and
historical data in order to study and preserve experiences of African
Americans.  In 1926, he established Negro History Week, which was expanded
in 1960 to Black History Month in February.  Rhynes has also written
biographies about Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison.