thank you all for coming today. hello, everyone, and good morning. my name is christina co-loan. i m with the director of the office. welcome to the graduating seniors who live in public housing. (applause) it s incredible to see so many people here today to honor the hard work of these graduates. this important milestone and accomplishment marks the next chapter in these young people s lives. today s ceremony includes representation from the elected and city family, special guests from the professional athletic community, private and public sector representation, and most importantly, the friends and family of the graduates who have supported these young people during their journey to this point. we thank everyone here today for showing how important these graduates are, that your participation and attendance. ~ by graduates pay close attention to the stage advice you will hear from today s speakers. all of us older adults were in your shoes at one point, and now it is o
wow. so, this announcement is really for you and some of your other fellow african-american graduates. [speaker not understood] formerlyedth mission k-4 foundation. we are based in oakland, california. we just moved there from san francisco. i actually make the community not really. but nonetheless, in san francisco, i m glad to be here to make the announcement. june 19th we re going to recognize african-american young men who have graduated high school and are going to college. this is an annual event that we host. we are very proud to be putting it together and recognizing young black men. so, this is a call announcement for all the young brothers who are graduating from the college, your friends, family to come out, support these young men. juan, we have something special for you and all other young participants, a $100 gift card just for coming out, participating. (applause) [speaker not understood]. so, i know how much $100 can carry you when you re hungry at night,
i just want to welcome carl landry here. [cheering and applauding] but i also want to say that the most important folks here, while the warriors did very well and we know next year they re going to do even better. while our giants this year won the world series, today we are celebrating our young giants, our young warriors, the class of 2013edthv this is to you. (applause) ~ and all of us who are your elected officials, and i m glad to be joined by many of my colleagues today, we all know the challenges that you faced. we know the challenges that our housing authority has face and had has overcome. we know the challenges that our school district has faced and is overcoming. we know the challenges that our law enforcement and our police officers have faced and we are all moving forward. i want to echo the mayor in saying that part of why all of us are here for you is we know that at some point in the very near future, those of us who are sitting in front of you, we re goin
have a thriving community and we have lots of young people like you who are moving forward and are going to do great things in the community and in your lives. and, so, i think it s always important to keep focusing on the positive, about the amazing community that we have and we re going to turn this around and everything is going to go in a positive direction. you know, i also just want to congratulate the partner here to the housing authority, that is our school district. our public school system is so on the way up and, you know, it started with elementary schools, moving up to our middle schools, and the back bet i am now after the school sign-up letters went out, i m happy to share this, getting people who are so mad that their kids didn t get into mission or balboa high school. [cheering and applauding] and we weren t necessarily getting those five or ten years ago and that is a real testament to our school district and the partnership with the city. and i know tha
somebody taller than supervisor scott wiener. [laughter] carl landry, inspiration, power forward, sixth man on the team comes in. not only does he make room underneath, but when he scores, you know it. and then everybody s got to pay attention, and that s why the whole national basketball association paid attention to the warriors, because individuals came on the team. they showed what they can do and they contributed every night, every game whenever they were called on, whatever role it was, and usually for mr. landry, it was get in there and make some room, clear it out. and then everybody takes notice. and this is the inspiration that he had coming off the bench. he is recognized as one of the great team members to come here. and i want to ask for his inspiration going forward. let me introduce to you golden state warriors forward power tom landry! [cheering and applauding] thank you, mayor lee. on behalf of myself and the golden state warriors organization, i want to