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This page is to tell more about the accomplishments of this promising young
student. Many scholarships require 2-3 letters of recommendation with the
application. Since students usually apply for several scholarships and can
only use one or two of them. a scanned version of all of the originals is
posted here.
The letters are divided by political, school, leadership and community service.
Political
Letter from the Barbara Boxer,
United States Senator
Vanessa, during one of her many presentations.
This letter is from Barbara Payne of the
Galt City Council.
High School
Galt High School Assistant Superintendent Edith Crawford's letter of
recommendation
Letter of recommendation from
Galt High School principal Bernie Olmos
Letter of recommendation from Galt High School teacher Ms.
Parker.
Vanessa and Virginia Menezes, Career Center technician
Letter of recommendation from the
Galt High School Career Center
Latino Leadership Conference
This shows Vanessa Madrid leading one of her three seminars at the 2007 Latino
Leadership Conference.
Letter of recommendation from Susanna
Flores, the
Migrant Education Advisor
Leadership and Community Service
This shows Vanessa directing the Galt High Students that worked on the February
5th primary election. She found more than 30 and used 20 students to assist in the
pre-election setup for the polling booths and the collection of ballots as
precincts brought them in. Her job was to arrange travel to and from,
place the workers, collect time-sheets, etc. This project earned over
$1200 for High School Clubs and charities. Click here to
read the thank you letters for this project.
California Youth Council
Dr, Jim Kooler, is the state administrator for the
California Youth
Committee.
Read the nice letter from Dr. Jim
Kooler.
Sacramento County Youth Council and FNL
Vanessa and Joelle Orrock, the Sacramento County
coordinator for Friday Night Live, FNL.
Galt High School district board certificate for
her work with FNL, Vanessa is the current president.
Vanessa was in charge of the duck pond booth at the Autumn Fest at the Rae House
Museum of the Galt Area Historical Society.
Letter of recommendation
John Moran Community Service Scholarship for 2008
From l. to r. Bianca Ochoa, the first winner of this
scholarship. She is attending the University of the Pacific in Stockton.
Barbara Payne, city council person. Jasmin Posas, president of the Galt Youth
Committee, presented the awards. Kristin Madsen, Christopher Ortega and
Vanessa Madrid on the far right. Liz was unable to attend due to work.
The 2008 winners are Vanessa Madrid, Liz Tokunaga, Christopher
Ortega, and Kristin Madsen. Vanessa was awarded $1200 and the rest were
awarded $600 each.
Full ride scholarship for Cottey College
Vanessa has been awarded scholarships from
Cottey College that
will cover her tuition and room and board. She received her largest award, $16,000, from the
California chapter of PEO. Now
she is applying for and hoping to receive additional scholarships to help pay for books and other
costs estimated to be about $4000 per year.
This page will continue to develop as
scholarships are announced, so please come back
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