Claira Pirozzi Monier ('58) chair of the West High School Endowment Fund

I still have a very strong connection to West because my high school years were some of the most formative in my life. I know that I wouldn't have gone on to college without the encourage ment of principal Kendrick Bean. Mr. BoT and, Mr. Quinn and Mr. Dufour also provided guidance, as did many teachers who gave students so much of their time. They all helped shape me and many others into the successful and hard-working individuals we have become today.

As we go through life, some of us realize that we might not have said thank-you to those who helped us. That's why 17 dedicated volunteer board members have put their efforts into West's En dowment Fund. It's our way of saying thanks and helping today's students at West get the best education they can. It's also a way to bring West students from the last 75 years together to build a solid future for West.

Inside this issue West's Presidential Scholar Teacher of the Year In the Winner's Circle In Honor of West's Specal Friends Memorial Field Diva Patricia Racette Youth Leadership Program The West Grapvine Keeping West's Future Bright Commemorative Bricks

We hope you'll be able to join our efforts and appreciate your support. We are also deeply grateful to The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern New England, Inc. for its contribution to The Richard and Maurice McDonald Youth Leadership Program for high-school sophomores in Manchester. Richard ('27), who, with his brother Maurice, created the fast-food industry and lent his name to 25,000 McDonald's restaurants throughout the world today, always kept his connection to West. He was proud to have gone to West, and we hope you are, too.

Claira Pirozzi Monier ('58)

Eugene M. VanLoan III
Wadleigh Starr Petters
95 Market Street
Manchester, NH 03101