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Career Day: A Success
Last Friday of January, Serra Alumni, Parents, and Friends come to campus to participate in Career Day. They are assigned classrooms and discuss the requirements for their field with the students. This year students were exposed to careers including airline pilots, flight school instructors, engineering, insurance, real estate, radio, banking, law enforcement and public safety officers, politics (Gardena's Mayor Pro Tem was in attendance), medicine and many more.
 
Presenters Ready to Go Presenter in Action
Our keynote speaker was Dr. Ancel J. Rogers, MD, FACS.
Dr. Rogers is from right here...St. Eugene's '67, Serra '71 and then on to a Bachelor of Science in physics from Stanford and a doctorate of medicine from Harvard University. His speech set the tone of the day.....hard work and personal responsibility brings success. Please click the link to learn more about this Cavalier Immortal's career.
Dr. Rogers is currently in private practice, is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UC Riverside and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA. He is also serving as the President of he J.W. Vines Foundation. "The Vines Foundation is a critical link in the effort to increase the number and diversity of health care professionals in the Inland Empire." See the Link.
Serra is scheduled to produce another Harvard Medical School graduate this May.
Alumni Attend Mass
The day before Career Day, Mass was celebrated in the gym on Campus as a part of National Catholic Schools Week. Tom Alford '63 is shown on the left reading the Prayers of the Faithful. Father Ken Templin S.M. is on the right offering blessings to the alumni.
 
After Mass, the Alumni and some students gathered for a picture.
Top row from left, Mike Almaraz '75, Ed Milewski, '61, John Cragin '70, Kerry Boagni '82, Jerome Thierry '81, Tom Alford '63. In the front row, Student Ambassador Lyric Mills, Teacher Alyce Hennessee (Dad is Raymond '71) Jerry Thomas '54, student James Gaines '18, Ann Thomas St. Mary's, Student Ambassador Aliea Galway (daughter of Tony '84 and student Bryan Addison '18.
Make your plans to join us for Mass on Ash Wednesday February 18. Same time, same place.
Cheer Does It Again
Serra's Cheer team, led by Coach Kerris Watkins, won the Sharp International Regional Cheer Championship and were 3rd in Hip-Hop last Saturday at Santa Fe High School. They will now be competing for a JAMZ National Championship in both Cheer and Hip-Hop in Las Vegas on February 20 at the New Orleans Hotel. We will have a performance time for the Serra Alumni who are denizens of Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City so they can attend and cheer our Cheer team.
Shown is our Champions along with a proud Principal Jeff Guzman and a proud Athletic Director Josh Dabbs.
College Expo
Here are 6 of 18 of Serra's finest at the Black College Exposition held at the Convention Center last Saturday. 16 of 18 brought paperwork with them, 16 Serra Scholars were accepted on the spot. 10 were offered scholarships. 10 were offered multiple scholarships from colleges including Tuskegee, Hampton, Fisk, Bethune-Cookman, Lincoln University, and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Invitations
Division 1 Signing Day
February 4, 2015
At 10:55 a.m. in the gym is Division 1 Signing Day at Serra. You are invited, but please RSVP to Vince Kates at vbkates@la-serrahs.org or (310) 324-6675 Ext. 3010. While you are here, plan to get your Serra Alumni Card, visit the Alumni Legacy Wall and get your legacy tile. Or watch it on ESPN U at 11:15 and 11:25 am. This is subject to change.
Serra at USC Women's Basketball
February 22, 2015
Eric's Vision & LA Marathon 5K Race
March 14, 2015
Join fellow Cavaliers in running/walking in this great event. A portion of the proceeds will come to Serra as tuition assistance and as College scholarship assistance. For more information, go here! You can register for the Los Angeles Marathon Big 5K by going here!
Dedication to Excellence
May 2, 2015
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