Cherokee Grants

“Cherokee Grants” – 2020 Net Sequoia High School $2,463.39

The Sequoia High School Alumni Association has approved the donation of $2,463.39 to Sequoia High School under its annual “Cherokee Grants” program.

The “Cherokee Grants” program is named in honor of Cherokee scholar and educator, Sequoyah, for which the Sequoia tree is named and is set up to fund instructional services and/or purchase of instructional equipment and materials that are not included in the current school budget. Grant applications are sent to every teacher. The “Cherokee Grants” Committee makes a recommendation to the Alumni Association Board of Directors as to how our limited monies can be best spent to benefit the most students. The application form contains questions that must be adequately addressed for the Committee to makes its determination.

The 2020 Cherokee Grants were:

• English 2 Intensive – Karyn Arle, $250 for independent reading books • French – Laurence Arfi-Tocatlian, $230 to purchase resources on Teacher discovery: IPA,

Debate, and scavenger hunt books • Mathematics – Fidel Mora, $495.51, for iPad (10.2 inch - WiFi - 32GB), Apple Pencil (1st generation) and Apple Care • Woodshop, Industrial Arts Department – Ethan

Sanford, $500 for a wood carving kit • Mathematics – Anthony Relator, $487.88 for a IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB Dual Mode 8MP Distance Learning Document Camera • Reading Plus for Academic Literacy – Stacey

Wenzel, $500 for Reading Plus licenses

The Alumni Association is especially grateful for the ongoing financial support of the “Cherokee Grants” program by Rich and Dee Eva (class of 1961).

GoFundMe Site for “Cherokee Grants”

We have established an ongoing fundraising mechanism via the GoFundMe platform for the “Cherokee Grants” program in support of Sequoia High School teachers. Please see https://www. gofundme.com/f/shsaa-cherokee-grants. We hope you will strongly consider donating to this worthwhile program.

Donations can also be made by writing a check payable to the Sequoia High School Alumni Association, P. O. Box 2534, Redwood City, CA 94064, stipulating that the funds are to be used for the “Cherokee Grants” program or via Pay pal on the Association’s website, www.sequoiaalumni.org.

Thank you for “Cherokee Grants”

I feel so very fortunate to work at a school that has such a strong and vibrant alumni community. The Cherokee Grant has helped the Woodshop create a woodcarving unit. Not only will the tools we purchased with the $500 grant be used in distance learning this coming semester, but my students will most certainly use them in the Woodshop of years and years to come. Lucky us!

Thanks for the info about the newsletter.

I hope you and your family and friends are all well and healthy.

With Thanks,

Ethan Sanford

Woodshop, Industrial Arts Department

Thank you from SHSAA!

Recently, we received a big envelope from Rhonda Anderson Wittwer (‘80) containing: • an explanatory note - she went online to seek missing folks listed in the winter Smoke Signals and had lots of luck • obits (labeled with Sequoia grad year) • updated addresses • a pack of 20 stamps “... sending some stamps to help out.”

As always, thanks for supporting the Association!

Memorabilia Donations

Angela Tomaka sent the Sequoia High School Alumni Association 15 issues of the Sequoia Times dated from June 1943 to April 1945. They were keepsakes of her aunt, Eleanor Tonnesen Warren, class of 1945. Eleanor passed away in May of 2019.

If you have Sequoia or San Carlos High School memorabilia you would like to donate, please contact us. If we don’t have the ability to take it, we’ll help make sure it gets to the best organization to make sure it’s preserved.