Local Kids Get a Taste of College Life Thanks to Donations, Volunteers
Teachers, administrators team up to take about 200 Novato kids over to St. Mary's College in Moraga for an inspirational day.
About 600 Bay Area kids, including more than 200 from Novato, spent Saturday on the campus of St. Mary’s College in Moraga in a basketball-tinged tour set up by a Novato man to inspire a commitment to education. Several teachers and administrators brought students in fifth through ninth grades to the college for the tour, a speech by psychology professor Mario Rivas and a game between the St. Mary’s men’s basketball team and Loyola Marymount University. The event was the brainchild of Christopher Major, a substitute teacher in Novato who serves as president of the Hayward Youth Academy. With a lot of help, he rounded up $9,000 in donations to make the visit possible. “I’m just decompressing after a really high-pitched Saturday. I’m just on…
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11:37 am on Friday, September 16, 2011
North Bay Youth Academy (HYA) look forward to working with Novato AVID in 2012. Thank you Jennifer Marsh Russell, Tanya Madsen, Paige Gardner, and Whitney Lee for your support more ›