More than 30 Pasadena area
community leaders went back to school on Oct. 16 to become "Principals for a Day" in the
PUSD. Business and civic leaders in a variety of areas joined with
school principals to foster a new spirit of civic involvement and commitment to Pasadena's public schools.
Participants spent the morning working on campus with
school principals; they later gathered together at Twin Palms restaurant. Over lunch PUSD Superintendent Edwin Diaz spoke to the importance of partnerships between schools and the community in order to enrich the
quality of education in Pasadena.
Keynote
speaker Dr. Lisa Sugimoto, interim president of Pasadena City College,
asked PFAD participants to find concrete ways to
build and extend the partnership with their designated school.
Participants included: Chuck Carroll, V.P., Citizens Business Bank; Harlan Thomson, Senior V.P., Capital Group; Stephen Eich, Executive Director,
Pasadena Playhouse; Lorna Fitzgerald, V.P., Marketing Research, American Funds; Hector Gonzalez, City Editor,
Pasadena Star-News; Gale Kohl, Owner, Gale's Restaurant; Stephen Mayo, Professor, Caltech; Robert Messier, Senior V.P., Seville Construction; John E. Perez, Commander,
Pasadena Police Dept.
The program is coordinated by
PEF, along with Partners in Education, and sponsored by
Merrill Lynch for the fifth year.
Photos: (top) Stephen Mayo of Caltech with Keith Derrick, Principal of Marshall Fundamental; (bottom) Vanessa Watkins, Principal of Norma Coombs Elementary with Realtor Nicholas Cacarnakis. 
And support PEF at the same time. Tickets are $25 each; no more than 2,000 will be sold. Tickets will be sold until Dec. 4. To purchase call 626-396-3600, ext. 88350. 
