committees and as PTA executive officers with abundant enthusiasm.
FRANKLIN -- Sunrise Rotary shows up once again as it gives Franklin
Elementary a hand...print, that is. On Saturday, April 1, the Rotary
will assist Franklin students, friends and families beautify their campus
by creating permanent handprint murals. Donations of $1 per handprint
will provide funding for the annual sixth-grade trip to Catalina. In
addition, Rotary members, working with Home Depot, will plant and
landscape garden areas around the campus. Enter through the Winchester
Street gate. Contact the office for times. Volunteers are welcome.
MARK KEPPEL -- Hey, dads! Here's your opportunity to give your
regards to Broadway... Keppel style. It's the Father and Daughter Dinner,
A Night On Broadway, where Chairwoman Belinda Howell promises that these
first-nighters will be entertained by an array of pseudo-Broadway
talents, including song and dance man Principal Gordon Morse and former
Zeigfeld gal, PTA President Elaine McCoy. Doors open at 6 pm, Friday,
March 31, and black tie is VERY optional. Tickets are available at the
office.
HOOVER -- Leave it to Hoover co-principals Pam Goode and Kevin Welsh
to make learning fun. How much fun? How about a festival's worth? Hoover
High's Festival Of Learning and Open House will be held 7 to 9 p.m.,
Tuesday, March 28, with science demonstrations, civics role playing and
performance art exhibitions that should both teach and entertain. The
community along with students from all Glendale schools are invited.
TOLL -- Stretching their academic muscles, 22 of Toll's best, led by
science teacher, Vince Underwood, continue to dazzle the middle school
science competition. Their dynamic effort in the countywide Science
Olympiad advanced the team to the state competition in Long Beach, April
8. Why not show up and cheer them on.
And from the art world, students from Judith Bakly's class scored big
in the art and poetry event, "Celebrating Community: Creating
Multicultural Friendship Through Art." Students Raul Collantes and Taleen
Keldjian received honors with the big winner being Toll's Nina Sanchez,
who was selected as Best Of Show in Poetry Through The Arts.
Arts add: Toll's Mariam Firunts is the winner of the PTA's
Reflection's contest in the literature category and Charissa Brown has
picked up second place in the photography division.
GLENDALE CHARACTER AND ETHICS PROJECT BULLETIN: March is
TRUSTWORTHINESS month. "The first thing you have to trust in is
yourself." I mean it. Trust me.
STEVE YOUNG writes about Glendale schools one Saturday each month.
Reach him by e-mail at theothersteveyoung @juno.com or send your
PTA/school newsletter monthly by interdistrict mail to Steve Young c/o
Mark Keppel PTA.
