For more information:
Wendy Walleigh
408-988-8915x208
wwalleigh@jascc.org
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay will celebrate our wonderful volunteers who worked with 27,500 students throughout Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey Counties. The volunteer-invitees will attend the recognition reception at the historic Letitia Building in downtown San Jose, hosted by Hopkins & Carley law firm.
Over the last year, about 3,000 local Junior Achievement volunteers taught in over 1,100 classrooms or hosted students onsite at their company's Groundhog Job Shadow Day. We will thank all our JA volunteers at the Celebrate JA! Reception, and awards will be given to special volunteers, teachers and corporate supporters:
Outstanding Volunteer of the Year: Pete Trowbridge (recent Agilent retiree who spent 14 years at the same school)
Outstanding Teacher of the Year: Patricia Randazzo (Accel Middle College, Eastside Union High School District, San Jose)
15-Year Volunteers: Patricia Raymond and Scott Clark
10 Year Plus Teachers: Shirley Foley (St. Mary's High School, Los Gatos) Debbie Whitson (Palo Alto High School), Carolyn Itatani (Morrill Middle School, San Jose)
5 Year Plus Volunteers: Anna Cruz-Harvey, Kim Delevett, Dennis O'Malley, Corey Pogue, Rick Sanchez, Robin Slawinski, and Patrick Wilson who represent companies such as AMD, Cisco Systems, IBM and Southwest Airlines
5 Year Plus Teachers: Althea Carter, Bonnie Evans, Joan Gotterba, Amy Kampf, Eileen Keating, Mike Melligan, Flo Oliver, Joan Perez, Brenda Pattison, Linda Rendler, Gabriel Roldan, Lynne Tran, Sue Walden, and Kenton Wong who teach in schools from Mountain View to San Jose
Top Groundhog Job Shadow Day Company: Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Santa Clara
Highest Growth in Corporate Contribution: Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Highest Growth in Corporate Volunteer Support: SBC Pacific Bell and Siemens
Outstanding Overall Corporate Support-Volunteers & Funding: Household
Top Funders: City of San Jose, Household and Intel Corporation
Top In-Kind Contributors: KICU-TV 36 and The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
Top 3 Volunteer Companies: Applied Materials, Bank of America, and Household
We thank all of these individuals and organizations for helping thousands of students who were able to participate in Junior Achievement programs as a result of their time, effort, and donations. Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay: Impacting local economic education one classroom at a time. For more information and to get involved, visit http://www.jascc.org or call 408-988-8915.
Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay is the premier K - 12 local economic education organization. Globally, Junior Achievement is the largest and fastest-growing nonprofit economic education organization, annually teaching 6 million elementary, middle school and high school students in over 110 countries. Junior Achievement's mission is to ensure that every child in America has a fundamental understanding of the free enterprise system. Since 1953, Junior Achievement has partnered with businesses, communities and schools from Silicon Valley to Monterey Bay to teach young people the principles of free enterprise so that they understand business and economics and are workforce-ready. Only Junior Achievement teaches K - 12th grade students about the relevance of school to their future success by using community and business role models to bring our classroom programs to life. In multiple classroom visits, these volunteers use their experience and knowledge to help students become workforce-ready by applying critical thinking and school skills to solving real-world problems. As a result, approximately 27,500 children from this past year will impact Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay communities as successful individuals, workers and consumers. Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay: Impacting local economic education one classroom at a time. For more information and to get involved, visit http://www.jascc.org or call 408-988-8915
