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Tutoring of inmates at the Frederick Detention Center begins and The Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown asks the Literacy Council to train inmates to tutor other inmates. 

Betty Seligmann is the first Frederick County recipient of the “Maryland, You Are Beautiful” award, in honor of her 20 years of service to the Literacy Council.

The Literacy Council establishes the Engle Memorial Fund, using most of the donations to fund an outreach effort in Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties. As a result, Garrett and Washington counties form their own Literacy Councils and Allegany County is able to provide tutor training workshops. More than 100 tutors in those three counties are...

Norman Paul, a retired engineer from Johns Hopkins University, obtains tutor certification through the Literacy Council and begins working in detention centers. From there he branches out to teaching math, English, GED, and college prep classes. Over the next 20 years he brings literacy to at least 400 people.

The Literacy Council moves to the new C. Burr Artz Library in Frederick.

English as a Second Language programming begins helping the many Southeast Asian immigrants coming to Frederick County.

Kay Mackley and Dolly Engle, along with others from Church Women United, officially founded Frederick County Laubach Literacy—later to become the Literacy Council of Frederick County (the Literacy Council)—to teach adults how to read using the Laubach method. Nineteen volunteer tutors receive training. The organization operates out of private homes until 1974 when the Evangelical...

Church Women United in Frederick County begins a migrant ministry project and soon discovers that many migrant farm workers—and thousands of other adults in Frederick County as well—cannot read. The group sets out to help.

Dr. Frank C. Laubach, working among remote tribes people in the Philippines, invents a technique that teaches reading by linking pictures with words and symbols. When the Depression leads to funding cuts, Dr. Laubach tells the chieftain that he can’t carry on. The chieftain declares that the program will continue, telling his tribe that everyone who...