About Us
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD WINNERS- 2009
These wonderful tutors were awarded the President’s Service Award at our annual Green Eggs and Ham event. Together they represent over 4,100 hours of service to the Literacy Center. Thank you wonderful people!!
Our theme for our 2009 summer program was Get On The Ball! As students progressed through their reading they were given some opportunities to Play Ball!
Statistics
- In the U.S. alone, 23% of adults are functionally illiterate.
- Eleven percent of adults in Utah function at a third-grade level.
- Almost 43% of people with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty.Taken from National Adult Literacy Survey, 1996. U.S. Dept. of Education
Honors
- Recognition of Outstanding Efforts – Awarded to Bill and Hesther Rippy by the Utah Coalition on Families in conjunction with the Rippy Family Literacy Center.
- Community Award – Awarded to Lehi City on behalf of the LFLC By Lt. Gov. Olene Walker.
- Presidential Awards – Individual bronze, silver, and gold awarded to Lehi youth and adults for outstanding performance and service toward literacy. Gold awarded to the Center.
- Hesther Rippy honored as Grand Marshall of the Lehi Roundup 2010.
Community
As a major part of the Rippy Family Literacy Center, the community and other affiliates take an active part in supporting and providing the means to accomplish its mission. In addition to hundreds of individuals and volunteers, affiliates of the Rippy Family Literacy Center include:
- Lehi City
- Retired Senior Volunteer Program
- Lehi’s Promise
- Alpine School District
- Foster Grandparent Program
History
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The Lehi-Rippy Literacy Center had its humble beginnings in July of 1998 in a one-room location generously provided by the city at the request of the center’s founder and current director, Hesther Rippy.The Center is currently housed in the city library building, and its tutors and students benefit from the use of forty-one computers, along with Lexia educational software and phonics-based sequentially-written readers, which provide the structural underpinnings for our reading program. |