Donations push community college more than half way toward endowment goal of $10 million
Toasting at the end of Allan Hancock College’s centennial celebration are Fifth District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, left, AHC mascot Spike and Superintendent/President Kevin Walthers. (Contributed photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
May 24, 2021
| 10:18 p.m.
A celebration of Allan Hancock College’s first 100 years culminated with the naming of the centennial class of distinguished alumni, and the revelation that tuition-free fundraising efforts had reached more than halfway toward the goal.
The virtual celebration hosted by Fifth District county Supervisor Steve Lavagnino and Superintendent/President Kevin Walthers, included musical performances, history and more on Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Hobbs in their garden Jean attended school locally but then passed her 11 plus and got a place in the girls’ grammar school in Hill Lane Southampton. “My father was very keen on education, being a railway orphan and largely self-educated himself. “Mum used to say: ‘That girl has always got her nose in a book. She should get on and do something useful!’” Jean had to cycle every day from her home to the grammar school and one day remembers being terrified when she got her bicycle wheels caught in the tram tracks that used to run down High Road.
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LOS LUNAS â The Rotary Club of Los Lunas completed its 14th year of providing dictionaries to Los Lunas third-grade students. Over those many years, the club as passed out more than 10,250 dictionaries.
Nathaniel James, Andrew Michael, Monica Merry and Savannah Marie, children of Peter and Melinda Ortega, received certificates of appreciation from the Rotary Club of Los Lunas for their assistance in the clubâs dictionary project. Submitted photo
While working within the stateâs public health guidelines, the club made the necessary plans to keep this signature project going in spite of the global pandemic. Pete Smargon, the project coordinator, marshaled the clubâs members and worked with the Los Lunas Schools and School of Dreams Academy to ensure that dictionaries get into the hands of local students.