Dear Editor, Walking out of the Live Oak/Gilroy game, I saw two
senior girls with buckets that read,
“Please help save our Grad Night.” How sad that these kids have
to resort to this.
Dear Editor,
Walking out of the Live Oak/Gilroy game, I saw two senior girls with buckets that read, “Please help save our Grad Night.” How sad that these kids have to resort to this.
Grad night has been a Live Oak tradition for 20 years, and it is amazing year after year how parents band together and work for months pulling off the most incredible decorations and activities in the gymnasium for the seniors to enjoy as their last Live Oak memory.
Every year they try to top the next, and unfortunately, last year they went so overboard that they overspent and left this year’s fund empty.
Normally, there is at least $5,000 left for the following year to send out letters asking for donations and to put down deposits on games and equipment. The year before actually left last year’s Grad Night with about $7,000, but they, in turn, left this year’s with $2.55!
The class of 2006 is the last full Morgan Hill class to go through Live Oak.
It is a class of over 560 students who are some of the top achievers to walk those halls. I remember them well from their freshman year when I had the pleasure of teaching many of them at Britton.
If any students deserve a Grad Night, these students do. They have worked so hard these four years, and giving them a fun, safe last hurrah at Live Oak is the least we can do for all of their efforts.
Of course, this could not be a worse time of year to try to raise $5,000, but the committee cannot wait any longer – they need the money for the deposits, or they will have nothing reserved for next June.
They need personal and corporate donations as soon as possible.
I know this community will rise to the occasion to support these hardworking students who have made us so proud and the devoted parents who have committed themselves to transform the gymnasium into a final wonderland for the seniors to bid their farewells.
Brooke Bailey, Morgan Hil
