Along with about 30 volunteers with the Jail Library Student Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned her master's in library and information studies, Mark secured reading materials for Dane County inmates. The effort won her and the other graduate student volunteers the prestigious award, sponsored by the nonprofit Points of Light Foundation and the Corporation for National Service. She also added a training program for new volunteers. One part of the program, Kids Connection, promotes literacy and helps reconnect families. Mark said that working in the jails could be sad as well as satisfying.
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Award winners were invited to the White House Oct. 13 to accept sterling silver medallions and certificates of commendation from President Clinton. Mark said she hadn't visited the nation's capital since she was a teen-ager. The University of Mississippi. All rights reserved.