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ROBERT S. LAUBACH-Lecturer in Literacy Journalism Syracuse University Syracuse...
...Literacy Pioneer Frank Laubach, who in 30 years has taught 100 million adults in 100 countries to read...
...Bird. Curriculum is the famed phonetic reading system invented by 75-year-old Dr. Frank C. Laubach. As a Congregationalist missionary in the Philippines 30 years ago, Laubach designed picture-word-syllable charts of the Maranaw language, launched an "Each-One-Teach-One" campaign among Moro tribesmen that made them 90% literate in a few months. The system is simple: an English student begins with consonants, learns that b sounds like buh-for-bird and sees the letter imposed on a picture of a bird. Much see-and-say repetition is followed by c imposed...
...Laubach has tackled 260 languages and dialects in 97 countries, founded a worldwide literacy drive whose current momentum comes from the first TV use of his system four years ago by WKNO-TV in Memphis. Results were so impressive (2,000 illiterates learned to read and write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple...
World Neighbors, Inc. began last September at a conference of U.S. business and religious leaders in Columbus. Among its sponsors: Missionary-Educator Frank Laubach, who has taught millions of Asians and Africans to read through his international literacy program (TIME, June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization...