Sem fourth-graders design leadership books

Wilkes University students recently worked with students in Wyoming Seminary's fourth-grade class to design, write and illustrate picture books dealing with leadership. The Wilkes students, enrolled in a sociology course taught by Dr. Mark Allen, met with the Lower School students during the spring semester to discuss leadership, identify critical elements of storytelling, develop a story, create the illustrations and plan the storybooks. The group produced six storybooks which will become part of the Lower School Sordoni Library collection. With one of the finished books, from left, are Ashley Tarud, Drums; Nicole Joanlanne, Dallas; Bari Lefkowitz, Kingston; Gabrielle DeNaples, Moscow; Rebecca Gordon, Middlebury, Conn., Wilkes University; and Garrett Larson, West Pittston.