FAMILY PRIDE “After going 25 years with only a sixth-grade education, I came to the Literacy Council to fulfill one unaccomplished goal: to capture my high school equivalency diploma,” says Bill Killinger. Bill earned his GED and encouraged his daughter Danielle to do the same. A year after Bill reached his goal, Danielle reached hers. Appropriately enough, she cites her own children as motivation: “I wanted to get my GED to get a better job and create a better life for my kids.”