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3/3/03

STUDENT-WRITTEN PLAY TO BE PERFORMED AT SLU, AREA SCHOOLS

CANTON - Do You Read Me?, a play by the Literacy and Theatre 
Project at St. Lawrence University, will be performed at 
the University and local high schools and middle schools, 
with student actors from all participating institutions.
	Performances will be at Lisbon Central School on 
Tuesday, March 4, at 10 a.m.; at Hermon-DeKalb Central 
School on Wednesday, March 5, at 10:20 a.m.; at Canton 
Central School on Thursday, March 6, at 10:15 a.m.; in the 
Blackbox Theatre at St. Lawrence on Friday, March 7, at 
7:30 p.m.; at Parishville-Hopkinton Central School on Monday, 
March 10, at 10:43 a.m.; and at Colton-Pierrepont Central 
School on Tuesday, March 11, at 12:48 p.m.
	Joining together readers and writers of differing 
levels, the Literacy and Theatre Project was designed to 
assist high school students with the development of their 
reading and writing skills. Through the process of memory, 
speaking and writing, five St. Lawrence students worked as 
mentors with five high school students in the Lisbon and 
Canton school districts to increase levels of motivation, 
competence and confidence.
	Project director Victoria Rue, a part-time faculty 
member in the religious studies and speech and theatre arts 
departments, along with St. Lawrence senior Laurie Puzio, 
took the students' words and created a play about memory, 
speaking and writing, titled Do You Read Me? It will be 
performed by the student mentors, Carly Drown, Laura 
Duran, Cobey Flynn and Matthew Burr; Lisbon Central 
School students Melanie Baxter, Dustin Dailey and Helena 
Parmenter; and Canton Central School students Crystal 
Hale and Sheena Love.
	The project was funded by a grant from the Verizon 
Foundation, through the Independent College Fund of 
New York, Inc. 

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