Gahr Glads build a bridge and get over it

January 24, 2012 • Bruce Guu, Editor in Chief  
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Recently this year, selected Gahr students were chosen to attend the third annual Youth Summit held at Cerritos Park East along with other middle and high schools within the ABC Unified School District.

“This is the third year that Gahr is part of theYouth Summit. It is a wide plan providing unity and leadership conferences to students,” Manuel Cruz, Dean of Students, said.

Schools that participated were Whitney High School, Artesia High School, Cerritos High School, Tracy High School, Carmenita Middle School, Fedde Middle School, Haskell Middle School, Ross Middle School and Tetzlaff Middle School.

Students who attended Youth Summit learned through many activities how to spread school unity within their own campuses.

“I thought Youth Summit was real good and educational. It gave me an insight on people’s feelings and emotions,” Susana Iturbe (12) said.

Activities consisted of balloon ice breakers, presentations, relay races, and skits about serious problems occurring at school such as bullying, drugs and alcohol abuse.

Cruz, Miguel Canales and the Gahr students who participated in the summit, decided to  take the Youth Summit a bit further and bring the program home onto the campus of Gahr.

“This program promotes school unity through individual interaction which means a more united campus regardless of ethnic diversity,” Cruz said.

This new organization on the Gahr campus is called Bridge Builders.

The organization’s mission is to spread peace, love and unity to our extremely diverse student body.

“Bridge Builders is unity and bringing people together,” Kelsey Sousa (12) said.

To start off and get recognized by the staff and students, Bridge Builders had a lunch social on top of the rally platform yesterday.

It was just a casual social gathering where students got to know each other a little bit better. They talked about many subjects, played games and listened to music.

Hopefully, after having more of these lunch socials, Bridge Builders will move on to discuss more important topics and go into deeper conversations with the students. This should bring student unity to our campus.

“I want to see the Gahr campus to look like a kindergarten classroom where fun and games unite the school,” Cruz said.

The picnic was held on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 on top of the rally platform.

If you are interested in school unity and want to learn more about the Bridge Builder’s program, do not hesitate to go out and bring your lunch with you to the next social!

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