CBS, Sunday Morning, Features GPLC on Sept. 27th

Don’t miss Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council‘s first-ever appearance on a national news program.  Be sure to watch or set your DVR for 9 a.m. on Sunday, September 27 when several GPLC students will be featured in a story about literacy on the CBS news program Sunday Morning.  A network production crew, featuring 60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts, came in early September to shoot footage at the Downtown Center and conduct interviews with GPLC alumni Walter Long and LaVonne McKinstry at work and at home.   They also talked to students at The Neighborhood Academy.

The national attention is the result of Pitts’ own struggles with reading and his high regard for this organization.  Pitts, who did not learn to read until he was 12 years old, was introduced to GPLC several years ago when he spoke at their 2006 Leaders for Literacy Luncheon.  Since then, he’s addressed more than a dozen literacy organizations around the country and maintains that GPLC rises above the crowd.   His personal journey is documented in a new memoir titled Stepping Out On Nothing.

Again, the CBS Sunday Morning broadcast featuring GPLC is September 27^th at 9 a.m.

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PS: The 2009 Leaders for Literacy Luncheon featuring author David Baldacci is just around the corner, October 14^th.  Get you tickets today at http://www.gplc.org/luncheon.cfm

or contact Maria Polinsky at mpolinsky@gplc.org