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Published on 11/17/1997 All articles from this issue

Schools Briefs

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KFJC museum broadcast

Foothill College radio station KFJC 89.7 FM will broadcast "The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show," from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 22, live from the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose to provide children an interactive experience. Disc Jockey Robert Emmett and his favorite pirates, Captain Jack and Scully will be hosting the show.

The Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose is located at 180 Woz Way, adjacent to the Guadalupe River.

KFJC is a non-profit station that offers music and public affairs programming.

Box tops for education

To help raise extra money for their school, students at Montclaire School in Los Altos are participating in a program with General Mills called Big Box Tops for Education.

For every qualifying Genreal Mills cereal box top collected, the school will receive 15 cents, and for every qualifying snack and Yoplait Yogurt multipack product top collected, the school will receive 10 cents.

The program will run through March 31. The money collected will be used to purchase computers, software, library books and PE equipment.

The school hopes to collect 100,000 box tops. Anyone interested in donating can bring them to the Montclaire School office, 1160 St. Joseph Ave., Los Altos. For more information, call 967-9388.

International scholarships

All students in grades nine through 12 are invited to apply for the fifth annual EF Ambassador Scholarship which will include an 11-day espenses-paid tour of Europe in July.

One qualified student from each state will be awarded a scholarship.

To request an application, write to Ambassador Scholarship Program, EF Educational Tours, EF Center Boston, One Education Street, Cambridge, Mass., 02141-1883, or e-mail to scholarships@ef.com.

The application deadline is Jan. 31, 1998.

Parents Involved in Education

Holly Swanson will speak on "Emotional Blackmail and the Green Revolution In America" Nov. 20 at the meeting of the Los Altos Chapter of Parents Involved in Education.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 625 Magdalena Ave., Room 620 in Burkhart Hall, Los Altos.

Young-Fives preschool openings

The "Young-Fives" preschool program has immediate opening for children ages four and a half years old or older.

The class meets from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Mountain View Parent Nursery School.

For more information, call Jane Zdepski at 969-9506.

Travel program awarded

The Foothill College Travel Careers Program recently received scholarships from two international travel organizations to be used by students enrolled in the college's career program.

SKAL Club presented $1,000 to the program and the San Jose Women in Travel awarded the program a $250 per quarter scholarship.

Send suggestions for schools-related stories to Linda Taaffe at the Town Crier, 138 Main St., Los Altos 94022.