If you read about Elsie Allen High’s One-Act Play Festival running tonight and Saturday in today’s Press Democrat but can’t make it, here are a few more places to see and support Elsie’s efforts to make it the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. According to booster (and theater mom) Kathy Korlin, the [...]
Among the local schools that have been honored with the California School Boards Association Golden Bell Award (Elsie Allen High, Penngrove School) is Petaluma High School which was honored for its Engineering, Design and Apprenticeship Trades program led by award-winning teacher Dan Sunia. We profiled the program back in September [...]
UPDATE: Here are some additional photos from teh presentation, courtesy of Elsie's theater instructor Rob Burt. ____ Remember Elsie Allen's quest to attend the Edinburg Fringe Fest next summer? Members of the Lobo theater community are working hard to make it happen. This week the group received a $2,500 boost. [...]
Elsie Allen grad Nathan Shinagawa returned to his alma mater last week to visit with Lobo teachers and staff as well as to speak with students. Shinagawa, who lives in New York, was elected at age 22 as a Tompkins County Legislator, becoming the youngest person ever elected to that [...]
Theater fans and Elsie Allen backers pulled in about $6,000 at a fundraising event last Saturday night, according to organizers hoping to send members of Elsie's drama department to the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Sept. 4 event was Cuban themed and featured Cuban eats and dance lessons from Edna and Dick [...]
Elsie Allen High School and their theater backers are hosting an upcoming fundraiser to help send a small troupe of thespians and playwrights to the 2011 Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. The fringe fest is a three week event that sprouts plays, music, performances and what sounds like all kinds of [...]
UPDATE: An Elsie supporter just shot me a message: The theater group is going to Scotland in August of 2011, not this summer (the information has been corrected below). That gives backers some time to attend one of their many planned fundraisers. Stay tuned. __________________- Elsie Allen drama students are [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools this week released their annual internal report on college scholarships received by its graduating seniors. Santa Rosa High’s class of 2010 pulled in by far the most money: $1,717,717 between 142 students. There were 436 students in the graduating class. Montgomery’s grads pulled in $609,896 between [...]
The big push for energy savings in Santa Rosa City Schools isn’t faring so well. The plan was to get teachers to turn off their computer monitors and forfeit their personal fridges, and to ask students to turn out lights and open windows instead of cranking up the AC. Cutting [...]