Bronco Baseball Joins Reading Program with Local Students

 

10/30/06

 

Roswell, NM -- The New Mexico Military Institute Bronco baseball team has teamed up to help a class of second grade students at Washington Avenue Elementary in their efforts to learn to read.  Twenty-one of the Institute's college baseball players are volunteering each Thursday to help these students read. 

 

Washington Avenue has been conducting the HOST program for fourteen years now and guided by Kimberly Kunko.  The HOST program is designed to have members of the community mentor these young students in the area of reading. 

 

This year, the Broncos will be mentoring twenty-seven young students.  Kunko adds, "The HOST program is a system that facilitates the building of relationships between the students and the cadets.  We hope that these relationships can grow from their time reading together to much more."