FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:	Members of the Southeast Missouri State University baseball team will read to second grade students at Blanchard Elementary School.
WHEN:	8:30 a.m., Thursday, April 10
WHERE:	Blanchard Elementary School 1829 N. Sprigg Cape Girardeau
WHO:	--Members of the Southeast baseball team --Second grade students at Blanchard Elementary
BACK-GROUND:	These Southeast student athletes will bring messages about literacy and the importance of staying in school when they visit Blanchard School. After reading to the children, the athletes will take questions from the students. Members of the Southeast baseball Indians team are visiting elementary school classrooms throughout Cape Girardeau this spring, reading to them and stressing the importance of literacy.