By Paulette Lash Ritchie, Times Correspondent
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Brooksville Elementary School third-grader Lillian Lamy, 8, concentrates on a left-handed technique while coloring.
BROOKSVILLE — Kathryn Nelson, 60, remembers struggling in school as a little girl. The lefty, as she refers to herself, couldn't write as well as the other children.
"I remember as a young child not being able to hold a crayon (correctly)," she said. "I was always the last one. I had the worst handwriting. It was rough being left-handed."
Fast forward to last summer when a concerned parent asked the Brooksville Elementary School third-grade teacher to tutor her son, who had a negative attitude about school.
Nelson began to work with him and realized he was left-handed. He returned to school this year with a different attitude and was even tested as gifted. He was the motivation for Nelson to establish a new organization at ...