American Graduate Champion: Alice Sample (Mountain Lake PBS)

Alice Sample, the founder of Journey into Reading, is the third leader Mountain Lake PBS will highlight. Journey into Reading is an early literacy program, staffed by volunteers, who read to children and families in the Champlain Centre Mall each Thursday. After children hear a book or two they are given a free book to take home. Parents are also given information about creating the habit of dialing reading to, and with, their children. Ms. Sample founded Journey into Reading in 1997 and since its inception Journey has given away over 18,000 books.