The Willow Glen Resident

Students sing out and raise funds for Booksin

Booksin Elementary Principal Harry Davis may have tried to hog the limelight, but the students were the stars of the evening at the school's San Jose Giants Night on May 8.

The Booksin Choir, led by Janice King, sang the national anthem at the game. And students sold 1,691 tickets to the event at $3 each to raise money for the school, reported Pat Georgoff, Booksin parent and president-elect of BESCA, the school's community fundraising group.

During the four years it's been going on, Giants Night has raised $15,000 to go toward updating the aging library, buying equipment for the technology lab and paying parents who work in the library, she said.

Principal Davis provided an incentive for the children to sell tickets, promising that if the students sold more than 1,650 tickets, he would kiss an especially angelic pig, brought in for the occasion.

"Mushu was dressed in her favorite angel outfit and was a good sport about having to kiss a human," Georgoff said.

Students who sold 10 tickets had their names entered in a raffle drawing for a $100 gift certificate to Toys R Us, a television donated by Willow Glen's Home Savings and a pair of tickets to both Great America and Raging Waters.

--Rebecca Wallace

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