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Seuss' birthday By Alex Bloom The Republic azcentral.com Cocopah Middle School celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday with a mayor, a football player and a CEO. The Scottsdale school hosted Arizona Cardinals center Lyle Sendlein, US Airways CEO Doug Parker and Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane as well as musicians and writers for the National Education Association's Read Across America week. Visiting on Monday and Tuesday, participants told middle school students why reading is important to their daily lives. Sendlein, who will start his third year with the Cardinals, graduated from Cocopah and has participated in the event four times.

His mother Carrie Sendlein teaches math at the school. Reading from a book of University of Texas football history, Sendlein told a class of excited seventh-graders that neurologists ask all football players read. "One of the things all of them will tell you, it's important to read and keep your mind going," Sendlein said. "It's important because you want to keep your brain healthy, as healthy as you can." Lane read Dr. Seuss's Sneetches to sixth- and seventh-graders.

Lane's three children, now adults, all went to Qocopah and read less and less as they got older. "Early on, they were readers," Lane of the week because of the number of Rigid EVA Provides good body weight shift and stability Durable rubber outsole Longterm durab readers who came to the school. "It's hard in this day and age for people to take off from work with all their responsibilities," said Thomas, who has organized the event for 12 years. "(Readers) must have found it very important." Seventh-grader Rylee Keller said Sendlein was her favorite speaker. "You'd think it would be hard for him to tell us why reading is important but he had his good reasons," Keller said.

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