USI Welcome Week - Bonding Through Books Lunch

Welcome Week

8600 University Boulevard - Evansville, IN 47712-3596 - 812/464-8600

		Bonding Through Books Lunch
		August 18, 2011 12-1:30 p.m.
		University Center Carter Hall
		Each year, Living Learning Community students are mailed a book and asked to read it during the summer. This lunch gives you the opportunity to discuss the summer reading book with faculty and staff. Books are mailed in mid-July. Synopsis: When Alice Ozma was nine years old, her father made a promise: to read to her every night, without missing a night, for one-hundred nights. But once the pair met their goal, they couldn't stop. 100 became 1,000, and eventually, they decided to read as long as they possibly could. The Reading Streak, as they called it, ultimately lasted 3,218, finally ending on Alice's first day of college. The story of their amazing commitment to reading, and to each other, is chronicled in Alice Ozma's book The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared. Note: We invite any new USI student to read the book and attend the lunch. To help our international students transition to USI, international students living in the Global Community are not required to participate.