I Love to Read
Student Council at Chipeta Elementary 2018
"I Love to Read" is a program that the Association and Palmer Student Council collaborate on every spring. The Alumni Association selects an elementary school, usually a feeder school to Palmer, and purchases a book for every student at the school. Alumni and Student Council students join together to go to the school, reading to each class and giving a book to each student. In recent years the students do much of the reading and both the elementary students and the high school students thoroughly enjoy the occasion. Beginning in 2014 the students also receive a ribbon bookmark commemorating the day. Monetary donations go towards purchasing the books, ribbons and snacks for the school staff and readers.
List of schools visited:
- 2020 & 2021 postponed due to COVID-19
- 2019 Taylor
- 2018 Chipeta
- 2017 Adams
- 2016 Steele
- 2015 Queen Palmer
- 2014 Midland
- 2013 Bates
- 2012 Audubon
- 2011 Columbia
- 2010 West Elementary
- 2009 Ivywild
- 2008 Madison
- 2007 Lincoln
- 2006 Stratton
- 2005 Grant
- 2004 Columbia
- 2003 Washington
- 2002 Helen Hunt
- 2001 Taylor
- 2000 Bates
- 1999 Grant
- 1998 Wilson
- 1997 Edison
- 1996 None visited
- 1995 Washington
- 1994 Lincoln
- 1993 Ivywild
- 1992 Helen Hunt
- 1991 Columbia