Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland will host its 20th Annual "Salute to Youth" Dinner & Benefit Auction, presented by The Whalen Family Foundation and Athens Administraters, on Saturday, May 2, 2009, from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the breathtaking Greek Orthodox Cathedral, amid at 4700 Lincoln Avenue in Oakland. The accident will affection retired NASA Astronaut, Story Musgrave, as able-bodied as the anniversary of the Club's 2009 Youth of the Year, Erica Murray. All gain will account the adolescent humans served by Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland.
-- Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland will host its 20th Annual "Salute to Youth" Dinner & Benefit Auction, presented by The Whalen Family Foundation and Athens Administraters, on Saturday, May 2, 2009, from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the breathtaking Greek Orthodox Cathedral, amid at 4700 Lincoln Avenue in Oakland. The accident will affection retired NASA Astronaut, Story Musgrave, as able-bodied as the anniversary of the Club's 2009 Youth of the Year, Erica Murray. All gain will account the adolescent humans served by Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland.
The anniversary will cover abide and bashful arrangement items featuring a amount of different items and affected cuisine. The accident is aswell accurate by top-level sponsors including The Men's Wearhouse, Bank of the West, Ted Buttner, Buty & Curliano LLP, The Clorox Company, Bank of America, Performance Contracting Group Inc, Ed & Ann Bartlett, Buttner Properties Inc., Sid Ewing, Veronica Fauntleroy, Gill's Electric Co, Larry & Ellen Keeshan, Merrill Lynch and Orinda Rotary. Sponsorships alignment from $1,500 to $15,000 are still accessible and alone tickets are $150 each.
The featured apostle of the accident is Story Musgrave, one of NASA's a lot of accomplished astronauts. Story Musgrave is one of NASA's a lot of accomplished astronauts. With a 30 year career spanning the Apollo era of the 1960s appropriate through to the Space Shuttle affairs of the 1990s, he is the alone astronaut to accept aureate on all 5 Space Shuttles.
Story retired from NASA in 1997. Today he shares his abounding different adventures through performances above the USA and internationally. His recreational interests cover flying, photography, scuba diving, parachuting, agronomical and running.
The Youth of the Year program, which is administered by Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and has been nationally sponsored by the Reader's Digest Foundation back 1947, recognizes outstanding contributions to a member's family, school, association and Boys & Girls Club, as able-bodied as claimed challenges and obstacles overcome. Each abatement Boys & Girls Clubs of America's National Youths of the Year are installed by the U.S. President during a celebration in the Oval Office.
2009's Youth of the Year is Erica Murray -- a 13-year affiliate of Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland's Ossian E. Carr Branch who becoming Youth of the Year continuing for her Clubhouse, again went on to win the all-embracing 2009 Youth of the Year account for BGCO, and was called one of 3 Northern California finalists who vied for the celebrated California State Youth of the Year appellation in Sacramento on March 11, 2009.
With roots in the Elmhurst District of East Oakland, Erica is a chief at Hayward's Tennyson High School. She is aswell a affiliate of BGCO's Junior Staff and considers the Staff and her adolescent Club associates "my additional family". Her alley to acceptable the 2009 BGCO Youth of the Year included outstanding contributions to her family, school, community, and her Boys & Girls Club with according application for her bookish arete and the claimed challenges and obstacles she has overcome. According to Ms. Diana Vazquez, Erica's Counselor "Erica has done abundant and is on the principal's account cycle (GPA 4.0)."
For Erica, "family is the a lot of important affair in life. One of the above things that I can accord to my ancestors is accessory a university, afraid with my goal, and commutual all four years. I ambition to appearance my ancestors that I accept value, that I plan to brainwash myself, and that I would do whatever it takes to accomplish my dream in education." Erica, a June, 2009 top academy graduate, has been acclimatized to California State University - East Bay. With added academy options pending, she affairs to accomplish her final academy alternative by aboriginal spring.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland's mission is to advance our community's adolescence into absolute contributors to society. Now in its 70th year, the Club continues to accommodate safe places to apprentice and grow, opportunities for advancing relationships with caring developed professionals, life-enhancing programs, and added appearance development adventures anniversary year for over 2,500 boys and girls, ages 6 to 17. The alignment supplements the endeavors of our families and our schools, and affairs to serve a minimum of 5,000 Oakland adolescence in the abreast future. Please appointment our website to apprentice added about our mission and programs www.bgcoakland.org.
For those absorbed in advocacy or admission information, amuse acquaintance Vicki Cosgrove at 510-444-8211 x 13.
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