By Robert D. McFadden Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded what became one of the world’s largest organizations of volunteers tutoring basic language skills to functionally illiterate peoples in ...

Ruth Johnson Colvin, Who Founded Literacy Volunteers of America, Has Died at 107 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded Literacy Volunteers of America, was inducted into the ...

FILE - President George W. Bush, right, bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ruth Johnson Colvin, from Syracuse, N.Y., during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington ...

Ruth Johnson Colvin, the extraordinary woman who started a literacy organization in her basement that turned into the global movement called Literacy Volunteers of America, has died at 107.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded Literacy Volunteers of America, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received the nation’s highest civilian award ...