Garfield High plans tribute to Jaime Escalante
Garfield High will pay tribute to prominent former math teacher Jaime Escalante early Thursday morning at the East L.A. campus with a gathering of the school's ROTC, leadership students, band and drill team, administrators, staff and current and former students.
The school's memorial service is planned for 7:00 to 7:20 a.m. at 5101 E. 6th St.
Escalante, 79, died Tuesday at his son Jaime Jr.'s home in Roseville, Calif. Click here to read The Times' obituary that appeared in Wednesday's paper. More coverage is here.
-- Claire Noland
My condelescense to the family. You may find these words in the bible heartwarming and truly encouraging. Revelation 21:3,4 "And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away."
Posted by: F.Diaz | 04/01/2010 at 08:00 AM