Oprah Winfrey farewell gifts include school libraries, oak trees - May 23, 2011 -- During the "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular" Part 1 show broadcast on The Oprah Winfrey Show Monday, host Tom Hanks introduced journalist Diane Sawyer. Ms. Sawyer gave Oprah Winfrey two of the show's farewell gifts to her school libraries and oak trees.
The gifts are in honor of Oprah Winfrey's Oprah Book Club which increased sales of books and an interest in reading among television viewers who may have not embraced reading for pleasure before. Most of those books in Oprah's Book Club were for adult readers; however, Ms. Winfrey has invested in education for youth by starting a school in Africa and providing a platform on her show for educators and others to discuss the state of education in the United States today. She has also encouraged fundraising for education, books, scholarships, and related needs.
Who is the one living woman Madonna admires, according to her comments during part one of the Oprah Winfrey Farewell Spectacular?
Oprah, obviously. So tough luck to you, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Madonna BFF Gwyneth Paltrow, and the adult women that Madonna’s daughters, Lourdes and Mercy James, will eventually grow up to become.
Who runs the world, according to Beyonce?
Girls, of course! Also, based on Beyonce’s backup dancers, sexy female attorneys, the kind who wear Ally McBeal miniskirts while wearing intellectual glasses.
Oprah Winfrey Show, Target is building or rebuilding 25 school libraries around the country and supplying them with books and supplies. In front of each of those libraries will be an oak tree, the "Oprah tree," reminiscent of the oak tree Ms. Winfrey has said she sat in to read when she was young.
Not only that, but Diane Sawyer announced that there will be 25,000 oak trees planted across the United States in Ms. Winfrey's honor, 1000 for each season of the show.
The Oprah Winfrey Show will end its 25th and final season on Wednesday.
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