Volume 11 | 2010–2011

SHARP Students Read and Write! Celebrating 15 Years of SHARP Literacy

Clockwise from above: 1998 In-School Presentation at Urban Day School. 1996 Our first Family Achievement Recognition Event which was held at the Milwaukee Art Museum. 2006 Paper quilt student project. 2005 A parent joins in the fun at a Family Achievement Recognition Event.

We are grateful for all the support we have received We have accomplished this by hosting four holiday through the past 15 years, which has made it possible fundraising boutiques, eight Novel Event luncheons for us to accomplish so much. We gathered some and four annual campaigns. We thank all our donors statistics to give you an idea of how many people and sponsors who have provided financial support SHARP has served and all the projects SHARP has as well as our event chairs and campaign chairs who completed over the years. We are proud of the have generously shared their time and expertise to work they have done and pleased to have had the benefit Milwaukee’s children. opportunity to have impacted the lives of so many students and teachers. We wish each one of you could personally witness how the children light up when they first understand a Through the years we have served over 58,000 new concept or when they receive books of their own. students in the first through fifth grades. We have Together our community is making a difference. worked with hundreds of teachers and principals and partnered with local organizations to benefit “Never doubt that a small group our community. Outside assessment findings show SHARP students’ literacy skills improve between 40 and 70 percent in just one year. Our students, together Marlene M. Doerr of thoughtful committed citizens with our artists in residence, have completed 12 Executive Director murals which are located throughout the city and viewed by thousands of people every day. Eight “We can change the world; indeed it Love to Learn” series books have been published and distributed. is the only thing that ever has.”

—Margaret Mead “Every year, we happily anticipate the SHARP Literacy program because it is so well planned and tied into our reading, writing, science and social studies curriculum in so many ways. We are certain that your lessons help our students in their academic achievement.”

—School Principal

2006 Author Ashley Bryan and students 45,461 Students Participated 1996/97 – 1,600 students at 28 schools – Grade 2 1997/98 – 1,600 students at 28 schools – Grade 2 1998/99 – 1,236 students at 14 schools – Grades 2 & 5 1999/00 – 769 students at 13 schools – Grades 2 & 5 2006 Louis Romano, author of “Gertie the Duck,” reads his story with students. 2006 Forest Home Avenue School parents 2000/01 – 1,818 students at 18 schools – Grades 2 & 5 prepare a meal for SHARP student volunteers. 2001/02 – 2,484 students at 19 schools – Grades 2, 3, & 5 2002/03 – 3,463 students at 21 schools – Grades 2, 3, 4 & 5 2003/04 – 3,921 students at 25 schools – Grades 2, 3, 4 & 5 2004/05 – 3,985 students at 25 schools – Grades 2, 3, 4 & 5 2005/06 – 4,204 students at 27 schools – Grades 2, 3, 4 & 5 2006/07 – 5,017 students at 28 schools – Grades 2, 3, 4, & 5 2007/08 – 4,889 students at 33 schools – Grades 2, 3, 4, & 5 2008/09 – 5,235 students at 32 schools – Grades 2, 3, 4, & 5 2009/10 – 5,240 students at 32 schools – Grades 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

2006 Marlene Doerr, Barbara and Jack Augenstein at the Authors Luncheon hosted at the home of Barbara Stein.

2000 SHARP Board President, Mike Mahoney, presents an award at a Family Achievement Recognition Event.

2003 Celebrating friendships and literacy 2003 Lloyd Street School at a Novel Event Principal, Helen Harris, with student artists

2005 Children love the colorful quilt they helped make. 8 Books Published 2005 Friends and Neighbors 2006 All Around Milwaukee: A Kid’s Tour Guide to the City 2007 All About Wisconsin 2007 Bullying: Is Anyone Listening? 2008 The American Dream 2008 Greater Milwaukee Circle of Life: Elimination of Racism and Discrimination Through the Eyes of Children 2010 Growing Up Strong: Healthy Children can Change the World 2010 Banking on Your Future: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurial, Technical, and Trade Careers 2010 Legacy Bank president, Jose Mantilla, talks with students about becoming entrepreneurs. 2010 Student star reporters take notes during interviews.

2007 Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union mural installed 12 Murals Created 2002/03 • St. Rose Catholic Urban Academy • Messmer Preparatory • Urban Day 12th Street • Rockwell Automation 2003/04 2009 Doerfler School students work on their “Celebrations” mural. • General Mitchell International Airport 2004 Installation of mural at the General Mitchell International Airport. • Lake Express Ferry Terminal • Ceria M. Travis Academy • Forest Home Elementary 16 Fundraisers 2004/05 • Greenfield Elementary School 1999/00 – Holiday Boutique – Darrow Home 2005/06 2000/01 – Holiday Boutique – Third Ward Fire Station • Discovery World 2001/02 – Holiday Boutique – Italian Conference Center 2006/07 2002/03 – Holiday Boutique – Wisconsin Club and • Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union Novel Event featuring Christina Schwarz 2008/09 2003/04 – Novel Event featuring Mary Pierce • Anna F. Doerfler Community School 2004/05 – Novel Event featuring Robert Burleigh 2005/06 – Novel Event featuring Dr. Kenneth Cole 2006/07 – Novel Event featuring Ashley Bryan 2006/07 – Annual Campaign Chaired by Russ Darrow 1997 Our second Holiday Boutique fundraiser which was held in the Third Ward at Engine Company No. 10. 2007/08 – Novel Event featuring Lois Ehlert 2007/08 – Annual Campaign Co-chaired by Curt Culver and Russ Darrow 2008/09 – Novel Event featuring Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle 2008/09 – Annual Campaign Co-chaired by Kristine SHARP by Rappé and Charlie Groeschell 2009/10 – Novel Event featuring Jerome Rousseau the Numbers 2009/10 – Annual Campaign Co-chaired by Maria Lopez Vento and Corey Hoze In the 2009/2010 School Year 2010/11 – Novel Event featuring DeMarco Morgan – Co-Chaired by Cecelia Gore and Mary Meehan 5,773 Books distributed for A Book in Every Child’s Hand initiative 2005 Distribution of creative writing books at Family Achievement Recognition Event. 5,401 SHARP Student Workbooks and Teacher Guides were distributed

5,240 Students and 261 teachers from 32 schools participated

4,078 Students took part in 88 SHARP Literacy Tours at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Since 1996, over 58,000 urban students have had their lives touched by SHARP Literacy! 2000 Students view a Milwaukee Art Museum 2007 Students and families celebrate together sculpture on their tour. at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Year End Family Achievement Recognition Event Circle of Life Celebration

Five different schools performed at “The final performance this celebration. Jason Newton of WISN Channel 12 was the emcee for brought me to tears — the evening. The Indian Community to see those children of School of Milwaukee performed the Indian Round Dance, a social dance varied ethnic backgrounds common among native communities come together and sing of the upper Great Lakes region. The Drum Group and ICS Eagle Singers also a song which brought performed. The students of Hmong them together as one American Peace Academy danced to three songs which related the life, was beyond beautiful. values, and beliefs of the Hmong I thank you for including people. The Hartford University School students sang “Agents of Change,” me and my son in such an reflecting their goal to make a positive incredible experience.” difference in the world. Escuela Vieau —Excerpt from thank you note from a parent School pupils performed “Raices,” a of a 5th grade SHARP student Puerto Rican song and dance and the popular and familiar “Mambo #8.” Students from St. Marcus Evangelical Lutheran School performed “Ise O luwah,” a Yoruban chant song and “I Have a Dream,” a contemporary The Circle of Life event was a singular Year one resulted in the student- piece that contemplated the powerful success. Held on May 24, 2010, at the created, spectacularly-sized, “Circle words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Marcus Center for the Performing of Life” mural, now permanently Arts, 1,200 guests (students, parents, on display at Marquette University. At the finale, students from all five performers, and teachers) returned Year two captured the cultural stories schools joined together for a final their R.S.V.P.’s for this culminating event. and artwork of students from 18 area group song, “Let’s Make a World.” It was an emotional experience for all schools into a beautiful book that takes This original song was composed by who attended, bringing the audience aim at the elimination of racism and students from Escuela Vieau under the to their feet, with tears in their eyes. discrimination. Year three brought guidance of local composer, Connie together students from a variety of Grauer of Present Music. Students After the performances, all had an The celebration completed the multi- backgrounds to discuss their heritage suggested the lyrics and melodic ideas opportunity to sign artist prints of year Greater Milwaukee Circle of Life and the uniqueness of their cultures. and Connie helped guide and shape international artist Roland Poska’s Project developed by SHARP Literacy, The resulting DVD is now available for the orchestration. Each of the five handmade paper art work, donated by Inc., and underwritten by the Forest educators to use in their classrooms. schools contributed a lyric about how the artist. In addition, all present that County Potawatomi Community Year four (this year) we created a live the world could become a better place. evening had the opportunity to sample Foundation. The project’s goal was mosaic. Through the beauty of song Members of the Milwaukee Youth a variety of ethnic foods as a fitting to enlist students’ reading, writing, and dance, our children reminded us Symphony Orchestra accompanied close for a successful evening. and artistic efforts to bridge racial and that our rich differences are always the performance. cultural divides while helping them outweighed by what we have in We are grateful for the many volunteers build lifelong literacy and research skills. common, and together, we enrich and organizations that provided their and invigorate our community. support for this event!

2010 Novel Event October 12, 2010 — The Pfister Hotel This year’s Novel Event celebrated SHARP students were asked to participate in a writing SHARP Literacy’s 15 years of serving contest and winners were announced at the Novel children in our community and Event luncheon. Students were asked to write about the publication of our latest “What Literacy Means to Me”. Six winners were book — Growing Up Strong: selected by DeMarco Morgan. The winners attended Healthy Children Can Change the luncheon and were awarded lovely prizes. We the World. With the help are proud of all the students who entered and of co-chairs, Cecelia Gore congratulate our winners for their stellar efforts. (Executive Director, Brewers LaTroy Hawkins, #32 of the Milwaukee Brewers, shared his Community Foundation) The Novel Event is SHARP’s only fundraising event thoughts about healthy living and Mary Meehan (President, Alverno and each year we are grateful for the support of our with students in the new book. College), we had a terrific event. sponsors, table captains and volunteers.

Our featured speaker was DeMarco Morgan who is passionate about helping children. His story energized and inspired the audience to help the next generation “I would like to see all children lead healthy lives. He is a top-notch journalist and reporter for WNBC in New York City and former news throughout the world grow up anchor for Milwaukee’s Channel 12 WISN, Morgan has been honored as one of the Top 30 Future Young healthy and happy.” Leaders of America and received the 2009 Thurgood Marshall Prestige Award for his community service. —LaTroy Hawkins DeMarco Morgan Milwaukee Summer Reading Project In response to reports indicating The program was spearheaded by from not knowing the definition of Milwaukee’s African-American fourth Dr. Howard Fuller and coordinated We are proud that SHARP Literacy any of the words on the pre-test at the graders have the lowest reading by SHARP Board Member and noted curriculum was used for this program. beginning of the program, to getting proficiency rates in the country, educator, Dr. Patricia Ellis. The five-week SHARP vocabulary assessment pre- 28 out of 30 answers correct at the end concerned community leaders came course was administered to 90 second and post-tests were administered of the program. Each classroom had a together to fund, create and implement and third graders at five public, private with very successful results. Students certified teacher, two college students a special summer reading project. and charter schools. attended school five days a week for and two high school students to four hours a day. Many students went provide support. First-Grade New Publication Banking on Your Future: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurial, Program Technical, and Trade Careers The first and second pilot phases of the SHARP First-Grade Program have been successfully SHARP’s most recent We Love to vocabulary skills, knowledge, and completed. This program initially came about Learn Book is geared toward teaching writing challenges. Other resources, as a result of requests from teachers that SHARP students about the many technical, suggested lesson plans and a glossary Literacy expand its curricula to first grade. We trade, and entrepreneurial career are contained in the book as well. thank educators from Cardinal Stritch University, options available to them. Participating Milwaukee Public Schools, and SHARP for laying SHARP students from 17 schools SHARP Literacy is very grateful to Legacy the groundwork, developing the program, researched, wrote and provided Foundation for providing the keystone providing important feedback, and finalizing this illustrations for this new resource gift that made the book possible. Deloris (Dee) Sims, Legacy valuable program. book. Local business owners and Foundation technical and trade professionals from We are also appreciative of other The two-year pilot program showed its success various fields visited schools and were organizations that contributed to this in very tangible ways. First-graders were given interviewed by SHARP students. project, including the Helen Bader vocabulary pre-quizzes before each lesson Foundation, the Emory T. Clark Family plan and then given post-quizzes after each This was a great opportunity for Charitable Foundation, the Gardner Lesson Plan. Results showed across-the-board students to talk to role models in Foundation, the Milwaukee Arts improvement rate ranging from 30 to 58 interesting professions. Most of the Board, the Milwaukee Public Schools percent. The Lesson Plan’s optional First-Grade people interviewed were clients of Partnership for the Arts, Rockwell Writing Challenge achieved nearly 90 percent Legacy Bank. All our interviewees Automation, the A.O. Smith Foundation participation, with almost all of the students encouraged the children to have good and the Wisconsin Arts Board. choosing to illustrate their stories and essays. attendance at school, study hard, and earn their high school diplomas. Many Margaret J. Henningsen, These findings strongly supported the goal of of the entrepreneurs shared how they Legacy Foundation adding a permanent first grade program as part of learned all aspects of the work prior the core offerings available to schools participating to becoming business owners. The in SHARP. The final program included improvements students loved hearing the personal to the first grade lesson plan packets based on stories of what activities our mentors input from the teacher surveys. Therefore, SHARP enjoyed when they were children and “The more will fully implement the program at 15 SHARP how their interests led to the work they schools for the 2010–2011 school year. do as adults. you learn, The book has a chapter for each career the more Campaign accompanied by activities combining Wrap Up you earn.” —John Ratzenberger SHARP Literacy wrapped up its 14th year by exceeding its fund raising goal for the 2009–2010 year. Thanks to generous people like you, SHARP was able to meet its budget again and serve more than 5,200 students.

The 2009–2010 Annual Campaign was co-chaired by Cory Hoze of Associated Bank, and Maria Lopez Vento of the Helen Bader Foundation. Both Cory and Maria led the campaign with enthusiasm, dedication and creativity, opening doors to many new donors and reigniting those from the past. John Ratzenberger, known to It was a challenging financial climate in which to children as Toy Story’s Hamm fundraise, but thanks to the leadership of Cory and (the piggy bank), contributed a letter of encouragement to Maria and our entire board of directors, we ended the students in SHARP’s new our year on a very positive note. book. He is an advocate for Student illustration for the electrician chapter trade careers. We are proud to announce Chad Tessmer of PNC Bank and Maria Lopez Vento of the Helen Bader Foundation as co-chairs of SHARP’s 2010–2011 Annual Campaign. Watch for opportunities over 2010–2011 the course of the year to get involved and celebrate our 15th anniversary with us by helping even more Book Project Milwaukee children learn to read and write. SHARP’s Taking a Walk on the Wild Side

SHARP is getting a little wild on our next book project! SHARPening Our new project starts with the story of a jaguar named Pat. Pat’s story will be the centerpiece of an our Focus international project between SHARP students in In May 2010, SHARP Literacy Board members and Milwaukee and students from Pat’s original home of staff met to look toward the future and create a Belize. Never before have the children of two nations three year strategic plan to make SHARP Literacy joined hands to create a book by children, for children, the most effective literacy enrichment program to tell the tale of the last great cat of the Americas, when he starts taking cattle instead of his traditional for elementary school children. We clarified our the jaguar. prey. Caught by ranchers, he ends up at a sanctuary mission, outlined our objectives and created for problem cats in Belize. Having lost his canine teeth, detailed action steps to enable us to grow and In telling the story of their “shared citizen,” Pat the he cannot be returned to the wild. He needed a home, continue serving the children of our community. Cat, children of Belize and children of Milwaukee and the people of Milwaukee reached out to Pat. In a will understand the importance of conservation, journey that has taken two years, Pat has made a new Mission—SHARP Literacy energizes urban while developing their literacy skills and making new home at the Milwaukee County Zoo. After a tough school children to become confident, capable international friends. The project will weave together start, he has become a world-renowned ambassador readers, writers and researchers, using the visual lessons about geography, science, conservation, for jaguars in the wild. arts as our tool to engage young minds and history, nature, art, and beauty. reinforce learning. Our SHARP educators are very excited about this At one time, the territory of the jaguar ranged from project and feel it will be a great opportunity for Vision—SHARP Literacy will become the most South America through Central America and Mexico, their students. In these challenging times, sending effective literacy enrichment program for elementary as far north as Oregon, and east to Louisiana. Our a message that we can all work together to achieve school children. SHARP’s effectiveness will be story’s “hero” is a down-on-his-luck jaguar who, as something truly special is empowering for children based on scientific research, allowing students the his forest home is diminishing, makes a bad decision and adults alike. opportunity for greater educational success. Our Students Need Your Help Literacy, Inc. Blessed New Student Historical Art Resource Program Sacrament School: 750 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive, Suite 311 Atlas Prep Brown St. 1st Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Academy (414) 270-3388 | Fax (414) 270-3399 www.sharpliteracy.org Clarke Forest BEAM Doerfler Home Ave. Board of Directors Street 2010–2011 Carson 1st 1st Academy Emmaus 1st President Joel Huffman, CFA, US Bancorp

1st Institute of Kagel Vice President Daniel Meyer, BizTimes Media Technology & King Lloyd Hartford Greenfield Academics La Causa Street Avenue 1st Secretary Hmong 1st Andrea Schloemer, Community Volunteer American Kluge 1st Treasurer P. Michael Mahoney, Park Bank 1st Rogers Parklawn Members Street Christian 65th Jason W. Allen, Foley & Lardner Longfellow Metcalfe Street St. Marcus John J. Augenstein, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, 1st Escuela Marquette University 1st Vieau Lori R. Bechthold, Community Volunteer Barbara Brown Lee, Milwaukee Art Museum 1st David Dugan, Cramer-Krasselt Trowbridge Victory Westside Patricia A. Ellis, Ed.D., Milwaukee Summer Reading Project St. Martini I Westside Douglas C. Erlacher, Wells Fargo Investments II Brigid Globensky, Ph.D., Milwaukee Art Museum 1st 1st Harry G. Holz, Quarles & Brady Peggy Larson, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee Jan Lennon, Community Volunteer Erika Luckow, Northwestern Mutual Susan Mikulay, Community Volunteer Joel Nettesheim, CPA, SVA Certified Public Accountants S.C. Michael P. O’Neil, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP Manuel Perez, JNA Staffing

Advisory Board Helen Bechthold Ned Bechthold Sue Darrow 2010–2011 Patricia A. Dowd Andy Fleckenstein School Sponsorship Tree Harry F. Franke Ellen Glaisner Helen Harris Sponsorships Committed Sponsorships Pending Diane Jenkins, EdD BEAM — Posner Foundation, Inc. Greenfield Bilingual — Northwestern Mutual Mary Kellner William Randall Doerfler — SHARP Board & Staff Foundation Forest Home Ave. — Herzfeld Foundation (partial) Kluge — Green Bay Packer Foundation Past Campaign Co-Chairs Martin Luther King — JP Morgan Chase Longfellow — Clark Family Foundation Curt Culver Rogers Street Academy — Rockwell Metcalfe — Stackner Family Foundation Russ Darrow Charles Groeschell Escuela Vieau — Kadish Foundation (partial) Trowbridge — Evinrude Foundation Kristine Rappé Westside I & II — Harley-Davidson Foundation Corey Hoze Maria Lopez Vento

First grade programs at 15 SHARP Literacy schools Executive Director have been generously underwritten by the Marlene M. Doerr Helen Bader Foundation, the Faye McBeath Foundation, and the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation. SHARP’s Wish List To help us better serve our students and teachers

Last year we introduced our “School Sponsorship Tree” have been able to expand our new 1st grade program. • A heavy-duty, multi-function, high- to visually show the growing number of schools and Thanks to the generosity of the Helen Bader Foundation, volume Photocopy Machine ($5,000) students we serve, and to recognize those generous the Faye McBeath Foundation and the Jane Bradley • Two Digital Cameras ($400 each) individuals, corporations and foundations who Pettit Foundation, we were able to have our 1st grade • A commercial document Shredder ($400) underwrite the SHARP program at a particular school. program in 15 schools, serving more than 800 students. • Lateral Storage Cabinets for files ($700) The tree was a powerful graphic — one that we will • Interactive Presentation System for in- continue to use and update. If you are interested in sponsoring the SHARP program school presentations ($3,500) at a school or would like more information, please • Small Educational Toys and Games One such update this year is the “little apples” you can contact Executive Director, Marlene Doerr, or Edie SHARP educators can hand out during see sprinkled throughout the tree, next to the larger Boatman, Director of Fund Development, at classroom presentations as rewards to ones. The little apples designate the schools at which we (414) 270-3388. students for great answers ($500) 2009–2010 SHARP Schools Atlas Preparatory Academy Hartford University School for Urban Rogers Street Academy 2911 S. 32nd Street Exploration 2430 W. Rogers Street Blessed Sacrament Elementary School 2227 E. Hartford Avenue St. Marcus Lutheran School 3126 S. 41st Street Hmong American Peace Academy 2215 N. Palmer Street The Business and Economics Academy of 1418 S. Layton Boulevard St. Martini Lutheran School Milwaukee Albert E. Kagel School 1520 S. Cesar Chavez Drive 3814 W. North Avenue 1210 W. Mineral Street Sixty-fifth Street Community School Dr. Benjamin Carson Academy of Science Richard Kluge Elementary School 6600 W. Melvina Street 4920 W. Capitol Drive 5760 N. 67th Street Trowbridge School of Discovery and Technology Clarke Street Elementary School Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School 1943 E. Trowbridge Street 2816 W. Clarke Street 3275 N. Third Street Urban Day School 12th Street Campus Anna F. Doerfler Community School La Causa Charter School 3774 N. 12th Street 3014 W. Scott Street 1643 S. Second Street Urban Day School 24th Street Campus Emmaus Lutheran School Lloyd Street Global Education School 1441 N. 24th Street 2818 N. 23rd Street 1228 W. Lloyd Street Victory School for the Gifted and Talented Excel Academy for Financial Literacy Longfellow Elementary School 2222 W. Henry Avenue 3624 W. North Avenue 1021 S. 21st Street Escuela Vieau School Forest Home Avenue Elementary School Ralph H. Metcalfe Neighborhood School 823 S. Fourth Street 1516 W. Forest Home Avenue 3400 W. North Avenue Westside Academy I Greenfield Bilingual Elementary School Parklawn Christian Leadership Academy 1945 N. 31st Street 1711 S. 35th Street 3725 N. Sherman Boulevard Westside Academy II !940 N. 36th Street 2009 First grade student excited to receive his book. 2009–2010 Donors 18 SHARP The important work SHARP Literacy does would not be possible without the generous financial support of the individuals, corporations and foundations listed below. Many of our donors have invested in our program scholarships year after year, while some of the names below are new to the SHARP family. We appreciate the investments made by all — thank you! honor Russ Strategic Partners Mrs. Phyllis Huffman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery C. Kasch Ms. Lois Ehlert ($50,000+) Diane and Robert Jenkins Family Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Kasten, Jr. Claire and Ken Fabric Forest County Potawatomi Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Kriewall Katherine A. Falk Darrow, Jr. Community Foundation Ms. Mary E. Lacy Mary B. Krygiel Heidi V. Fallone Legacy Foundation Lake Express Ferry, LLC Michael J. Kuhn, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. David J. Fee Rockwell Automation Ms. Janice L. Lennon Mary Ann and Charles La Bahn Ms. Jean J. Fenceroy This past spring, Russ Darrow, Jr. — “The Real Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust The Marcus Corporation Mr. John K. Lamoreaux Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ferguson Deal” — celebrated a special birthday. Many will Marquette University Shirley J. Lanier Mr. and Mrs. James P. Flint remember that Russ was SHARP Literacy’s first Visionary Sponsors Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mrs. Pat Larkin Barbara K. Frank ($25,000-$49,999) Journal Foundation/Thomas Ms. Peggy Larson Gina Madrigrano Friebus official annual campaign chair in 2006–2007, Anonymous and Yvonne McCollow Fund Mr. and Mrs. Scott Larson Patricia H. Gahl and co-chaired the 2007–2008 annual campaign Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Moon Marlene Lauwasser Paige Galfano as well. Both Russ and his wife Sue have been Mentoring Sponsors Park Bank Foundation Mr. Samuel Lewis The Arthur J. Gallagher ($15,000-$24,999) Peck Foundation, Milwaukee, Ltd. Mary L. Lukenda Foundation strong supporters of SHARP for many years and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Picardy Shoe Parlour Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Mac Neil Mr. and Mrs. Brett A. Gardner held the first fundraiser for the organization in Harley-Davidson Foundation PPC Foundation Ms. Jamy Malatesta Mr. and Mrs. William T. Gaus their home. To mark his birthday, many of Russ Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Dick and Carol Richards Mrs. Susan Marcus Terese G. Gingrass Foundation Target Foundation Mary Marks Patti Gorsky and Sue’s friends made donations to SHARP in Nicholas Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter Vebber Ms. Janet H. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Michael Grebe honor of Russ. Thanks to Russ and the generous Northwestern Mutual Foundation M. Olivia Villarreal Pam McGlocklin Sue and James R. Grinney donors listed below, 18 students from some of Barbara Moe Mr. James A. Griswold Underwriting Sponsors Silver Lucia and Jack Murtaugh Doris and Ed Heiser Milwaukee’s most challenging neighborhoods ($7,500-$14,999) ($500-$999) Ms. Joan W. Nason Kathleen H. Hendee will be able to learn to read and write through A.O. Smith Foundation, Inc. Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Cory Nettles Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hitler the SHARP program. Associated Bank Dr. and Mrs. John J. Augenstein Tamiko Obregon Elizabeth D. Hoffman Brewers Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. F. Jon Baranko Priscilla A. O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Holz Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Mrs. Carolyn Patitucci and Mr. Paige N. Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Ned Bechthold Anthony and Andrea Bryant BizTimes Ralph J. Patitucci Alice Horton Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Boelter Family Fund Mrs. Barbara Brown Lee Mrs. Jill G. Pelisek Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Johnson Marlene M. Doerr Mr. and Mrs. John Burke Mr. Thomas J. Bruckner Mr. and Mrs. Jay Peters Ronald D. Jones Clark (Emory T.) Family Charitable Ms. Elaine Burke Mrs. Sharon L. Petrie Debbie Judge Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Goris Foundation Cardinal Stritch University Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Prochnow Kenan and Sara Kersten Sharon and Don Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Costigan Ms. Kathleen Cavallo Mr. and Mrs. William L. Randall Mr. and Mrs. Roger Kriete Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Kasten, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Curt S. Culver Cramer-Krasselt Carol J. Reiners Ms. Mary H. Krueger Halbert and Alice Kadish Fund Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Erlacher Ms. Nancy Rigsby Ms. Pamela Langer Ms. Janice L. Lennon Kalben Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Schlosser Sarah B. Langerman Mr. and Mrs. Camp Van Dyke III Milwaukee Public Schools Barbara Fuldner Mr. and Mrs. William Schuett, Jr. Muriel R. Green Lappin Partnership for the Arts Mrs. Susan G. Gebhardt Mrs. David C. Scott Ms. Kathryn Laufenberg Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Pieper, Sr. Mrs. Kathleen Griffin Mr. and Mrs. John Steiner Mr. and Mrs. Tom Long Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Johnson Bank Mrs. Audrey Strnad Ms. Patricia M. Longabaugh William and Alicia Schoeneich Mr. and Mrs. Gary Jorgensen Sibylle Tasker Mr. and Mrs. Roger Luckow Arts and Culture Fund Mr. and Mrs. John Koss, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tice Mr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Lutz Wisconsin Arts Board Dr. and Mrs. Michael C. Kubly Mr. and Mrs. Camp Van Dyke III Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Manning Wisconsin Energy Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Luckow Jan C. Van Schaik Mary Jane Martinez Foundation Mr. William Petasnick Ellen Venable Jackie L. May New Members Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Pindyck Jennifer Vipond Mrs. Julie S. McHale Platinum Quarles & Brady LLP Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vogel III Ms. Catherine McHugh ($2,500-$7,499) Kristine and James Rappé Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker Judith G. McMullen Join SHARP Anonymous (3) Reilly, Penner & Benton LLP Dr. and Mrs. Ronald K. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Meece Baird Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Schmidt, Jr. Faye P. Wetzel Ms. Barbara J. Michaels CDW Social Development Commission Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Whealon Claire H. Moulis Literacy Board Continental Properties Company, Ms. Barbara A. Stein Mr. and Mrs. James B. Wigdale, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Muth Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gustavus Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Zore Mr. and Mrs. William Nasgovitz The Edward U. Demmer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wamser Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Weiss Friend Niedermeyer In August, SHARP Literacy Mary Martha & Emmett J. Doerr Mr. and Mrs. James Wiensch ($25-$99) Debra J. Ogston welcomed four new members Charitable Trust Ms. Sunny Williams Heidi Abraham Mrs. Jeanne E. Paul to the board of directors. Albert J. and Flora H. Ellinger Patricia Allison Stonebraker Mr. John E. Peters Foundation, Inc. Bronze Kathleen R. Alpren Mrs. Kathleen Poblocki Ralph Evinrude Foundation, Inc. ($100-499) Mr. and Mrs. David J. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Randle Pollard Jason W. Allen The Gardner Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abdoo Ms. Susie Apple Ms. Manpreet Purewal Jason Allen is a partner with Foley & Lardner General Mills Foundation Mr. and Mrs. G. Woodrow Adkins Mr. Simon Arenzon and Mrs. Monica C. Pyne LLP, and is a member of the Finance & Financial Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mr. and Mrs. William R. Arpe Dorothy Bein-Arenzon Edith Brengel Radtke Kopmeier Family Fund Lynn and Chuck Barney Sharon L. Bell Ms. Linda Raschka-Garcia Institutions and Private Equity & Venture Capital Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Christine Baumann Laureen Bentzien Mr. and Mrs. David F. Ratzlaff Practices and the Energy Industry Team. His Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Ms. Ritika Bhatia Mr. Brent Reimers practice focuses in the areas of mergers and Mr. and Mrs. Joel R. Huffman, CFA Baumgartner Edie Boatman Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Robinson Dorothy Inbusch Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Ms. Mark Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Boelter Rozalynd Roos Merrill acquisitions, private equity, finance and general Koss Foundation, Inc. Nancy Bonniwell Mr. and Mrs. Dylan Bolin Kathleen R. Ruidl corporate and commercial law, with a particular Lubar & Company Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Patricia Borger Peggy J. Russo emphasis on transactions in the energy industry. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon B. Lubar Milwaukee Ms. Lindsey E. Bowman Mrs. Diane K. Schmelzer Mr. and Mrs. P. Michael Mahoney Mrs. Deanna Braeger Jennifer B. Breceda Ms. Jean E. Schramka Marshall & Ilsley Corporation Mr. and Mrs. William S. Brownfield Roberta Buening Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Schwerm Joel G. Nettesheim, CPA Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Mikulay Tony Brzonkala Christine Burke-Duecker Ms. Fran Serlin Joel Nettesheim is a Principal in the Business Milwaukee Arts Board Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Buchholz Sarah Burkhart Judy and Don Shane Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Ms. Nancy Lynn Cattani Carla and Neal Butenhoff Katherine L. Smith Advisory Services Group at SVA Certified Public Nonprofit Management Fund James Cerletty Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cadorin Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith Accountants. He is experienced in financial and tax Payne & Dolan, Inc. Mrs. Patty Cosentino Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Carr Sarah A. Smith issues as well as valuation and litigation matters. Ms. Diane F. Pellegrin Ms. Karen T. Costomiris Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Carter Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sprague Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation Tom and Maripat Dalum Mr. and Mrs. Richard F Casper, Jr. Katharine H. Stanford Puelicher Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Darrow Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Julie Steinhafel Michael P. 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Student Historical Art Resource Program

The SHARP Mission SHARP Literacy energizes urban school children to become confident, capable readers, writers and researchers, using the visual arts as our tool to engage young minds and reinforce learning. The SHARP Story Since 1996, SHARP Literacy programs have given thousands of Milwaukee elementary students an important edge in research, interviewing, reading, writing, vocabulary and presentation skills. SHARP develops and provides lesson plans, teacher/student workbooks, writing challenges, field trips, activities, special projects and in-classroom guest visits for students who reside in some of Milwaukee’s most challenging neighborhoods. In addition to harnessing the power of the visual arts, 2003 Family Achievement Recognition Event at all of SHARP’s core literacy programs and materials Serb Hall. connect directly to Wisconsin’s mandated elementary curricula standards.

Working each year with more than 5,000 students in 30-plus public, charter and choice schools, SHARP educators collaborate with classroom teachers on assorted books featuring student-written works inspired by the SHARP curricula — a process that annually turns thousands of children into published authors. Many of the books written by the 2010 Family Achievement Recognition Event students are in turn used as textbooks by celebrating Circle of Life. other students for years to come. How Exactly Does the SHARP Program Work? The Eight Building Blocks 4. First Semester In-School Presentations 7. Year-End Writing Challenge (March). After The SHARP school year rests firmly on the foundation (October–December). A SHARP educator visits students complete the challenge to pen a short of the following Eight Building Blocks: each of the 250 to 300 classrooms to introduce story, poem or essay about what they have learned students to new vocabulary related both to the from the SHARP curriculum, all student works are 1. Teacher Summer Workshop (June). Each June, curriculum and the visual arts. Students explore with published in attractive Writing Challenge Books for SHARP gathers a diverse group of its participating the SHARP presenter how artworks they view via each grade level — each thick book containing the school teachers to review SHARP materials and PowerPoint relate to their other classroom subjects. creative efforts of hundreds of young writers from student workbooks for each grade level, ensuring 5. SHARP Milwaukee Art Museum Tours across Milwaukee. Every SHARP teacher receives that the most up-to-date, effective teaching tools (December–March). Thousands of participating a free copy of the Writing Challenge Book for are in use for the coming autumn. SHARP students are brought to the Milwaukee Art classroom use. 2. Teacher In-Service (September). An all-day in- Museum each year to interact with SHARP-trained 8. FARES: Family Achievement Recognition Events service session gives teachers a look at SHARP’s core docents and see first-hand many of the artworks (April–May). It is at these events celebrating the curriculum for the year and a preview of annual viewed earlier on screen in the classroom. Because students’ achievements that the Writing Challenge museum field trips custom-designed by SHARP the students are prepared for these SHARP- Books debut, and children can’t wait to show a for each grade level. SHARP’s annually changing designed tours, SHARP students learn more and parent or guardian that they are published authors. elective writing and book enrichment projects for behave more appropriately in the museum. This excitement generates even greater student students are also introduced at this time. 6. Second-Semester In-School Presentations effort as children progress to the next SHARP grade 3. Workbook Distribution (October). Updated (January–March). After reviewing vocabulary and level. Skits, stories, songs, poems, food and fun are student and teacher workbooks — designed to concepts with a SHARP presenter and viewing the order of the day at these popular family events. build vocabulary by drawing on the strengths of additional curriculum-related visual art, students multiple learning styles — are provided for each are asked to develop well-thought-out ideas for the Chips Off the Eight Blocks grade level and each student, offering students Year-End Writing Challenge. • The cost to provide this Eight-Block program is a year’s-worth of engaging activities exploring approximately $100 per student. language arts, science and social studies subjects.