Willow Glen High celebrates third annual Career Day

From The Willow Glen Times

Willow Glen High was jam packed with what appeared to be a number of older students on Feb. 12, but they were actually speakers for the school’s bi-annual Career Day.

More than 130 adults came to school that morning to describe their careers and answer questions from the school’s 1,500 students, who range in age from 15 to 18. There were more than 30 different panels including everything from owning a clothing store to running a hotel and from police officers to fire fighters to journalists, DJs and film producers.

The panelists came from all walks of life and represented careers as diverse as judges and lawyers to nurses and physicists.

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During yet another extraordinary extracurricular opportunity for WG Middle School, students had a chance to meet with author Jen Calonita during a special 6th Period activity on Wednesday, March 4.

Calonita read from her new book, ‘Secrets of My Hollywood Life: Paparazzi Princess’.

As a former Senior Editor at Teen People and journalist for Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, and Marie Claire, Calonita has met and interviewed enough stars to make even the most jaded teenager sit up and take notice. Her novels about a teen television star, Kaitlin Burke, and her struggle to balance friends, family, and dating with all the good and bad that comes from being a celebrity “it” girl was immediately a hit with teens.

Among the things she discussed with students:

• Starting her career in journalism
• How journalists conduct celebrity interviews
• How she became interested in writing ?ction
• How a book goes from an idea to available in stores
• The process of writing and revising novels

As part of the event, world-famous Hicklebees Bookstore offered a Calonita’s book for a sale price $17 at the event, and other books in her series were also available. These books can still be purchased at Hicklebees!

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Originally published in the Willow Glen Resident on January 9, 2009:

Student shark art auction sparks bidding frenzy at Willow Glen High

ByTiffany Carney, Willow Glen Resident

Shark fans citywide swarmed Willow Glen High School last month hoping to outbid the competition for a chance to take home the shark of their choice.

These weren’t, however, the kind of sharks you’d find on the ice — or in the water. One donned SCUBA gear, one looked like a sandwich with “all the fixings” and another looked like it swam straight out of the pages of Where the Wild Things Are.

Each of the 52 sharks was a one-of-a-kind creation by student artists as part of a silent auction to raise funds for the advanced sculpture course at Willow Glen High. The School of Fish art exhibit, held Dec. 16 at the Gene and Mickey Long Center art gallery, sparked a bidding frenzy that raised $2,500, about $1,300 more than organizers had predicted. The highest bid reached $165.

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The Sharks Art project was also featured in our own Impressions Newsletter!

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Willow Glen Foundation strikes gold

From The Willow Glen Times

The Willow Glen Foundation held its annual fundraiser on Nov. 2 and the money raised will make a lot of dreams come true for the middle and high schools.

This year the seventh annual wine tasting and auction was held in the new Willow Glen Library allowing those attending to spread out. For the past two years, it was held at the Garden Theater Building, which provided more room than the Grapevine, where it started. The library venue was perfect, allowing people to move around easily and be heard. In fact, the number of attendees has grown with the site. About 120 people attended the events held at the Grapevine, increasing to about 250 last year. This year, more than 350 attended.

The collections were also up this year, with a net of more than $35,000 compared with $30,000 last year, despite the economic crisis.

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Originally published in the Willow Glen Resident on November 14, 2008:

San Jose school accepts Columbine victim’s challenge

ByTiffany Carney, Willow Glen Resident

Kindness and compassion are spreading fast on the Willow Glen Middle School campus, thanks to Rachel Joy Scott.

Scott, a junior in high school, was the first person killed on the Columbine High School campus in Colorado on April 20, 1999, when two of her classmates went on a killing spree. Their intention was to strike out after years of being bullied, according to police authorities.

Thanks to Rachel’s father, Darrell Scott, and her brother Craig, along with other family and friends, her legacy will continue as students around the world accept Rachel’s Challenge, including those at Willow Glen Middle School. The program first launched at the San Jose school in 2006 and has evolved every year since then. It is the only school in the city to fully participate in the program.

The Rachel’s Challenge assembly program sends presenters to schools in and out of the United States to tell Rachel’s story and to get others to accept her challenge of compassion and kindness. Willow Glen Middle School held an assembly on Oct. 21

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