Join us in celebrating our Annual Pajama Party, a CLC Fundraiser that has helped us build libraries and supply books to children across the globe for years.
In Memory of Kemie Nix, Founder of CLC
Kemie Nix (1938-2024) began teaching literature to children over five decades ago and never tired of introducing young readers to the joy of reading. Her early programs quickly gained momentum and expanded from Westminster to inner-city Atlanta schools. Kemie learned that in order to teach literature, more appealing books were needed in schools. Kemie and many volunteers began collecting books, and the Reader-to-Reader program was born. Charity Mwangi, head mistress of Mt. Kenya Academy, then asked Kemie to bring the program and books to Kenya.
Since its founding, CLC has placed more than two million books in hospitals and schools around the globe. Kemie’s family including her daughter, daughter-in-law, and granddaughters wholeheartedly continue her legacy of sharing books with children worldwide by serving on CLC boards. We ask that you help preserve Kemie’s legacy by giving today. Help us share books with children, place books in classrooms, build libraries, and change the lives of children, just as Kemie dreamed it should be!
The Pajama Party is CLC’s main fundraising effort of the year, and has always been a virtual event to stay home and read with a child. Through the years CLC has honored with its annual Pajama Party many special authors, educators, and philanthropists for their contributions to children’s literature and our organization. CLC’s first Pajama Party was held over 30 years ago and honored Dr. William Pressly, founding president of The Westminster Schools. Dr. Pressly allowed CLC’s founder Kemie Nix, then a reading specialist at the school, sabbatical to teach literature in the inner-city Atlanta Public Schools, and later at Mount Kenya Academy in Kenya. Read more of the founding of CLC and of Kemie’s adventures in teaching literature in her book: A Book Teacher for Every School: Featuring Mount Kenya Academy.
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