In Praise of Marcos Cruz

Even though not one of the trustees from the Board of Trustees at CCSF has responded to my plea sent mid-day this past Monday, I have gotten a response from Marcos Cruz, whose name and email address I got from Leslie Simon, who told me he heads up the Student Asembly and is a paid intern at the Union.

.  I sent him a message on Tuesday evening and got a response within two hours.  What a contrast!

He said he would love to be on the panel but will be out of town from February 20th through 25th.  He offered to help us find another student speaker and asked to be kept in the loop.

For the record, here's the message I sent to him.

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 5:34 PM Tina Martin <tina_martin@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Dear Marcos, 

I got your name from Leslie Simon, who told me that you head up the Student Assembly and are the paid intern at the union.

I would  like  to invite you to be part of a panel for an OWL program about City College on Saturday, February 22, from 10:00 to noon.

OWL stands for Older Women's League, but if you have a stereotype of old women, I don't think we fit it.  Our president has gotten city-wide recognition for the  work she did for forty years in the Tenderloin, and another board member just got written up in a feature story in Forbes Magazine because of the film festival she founded and runs.  When I first met these women at the SF Public Library, I was really impressed by them as I have been by their (now our) programs.  I'm telling you this in hopes of making your want to speak to our group.

We also foster inter-generational connections.

We want to have a program on City College because so many of us are impacted by what happens there.  

Could you make up part of our panel?  Jenny  Worley, the president of AFT 2121, will  be on the panel, and so will Rafael Mandelman, who was a CCSF trustee for six years  and has been a SF supervisor for a couple of years.  We've heard that no one from the administration is available that day, which is too bad because we really wanted to hear from people with divergent points of view.

With thanks and hope of hearing from you soon,

Tina Martin, retired CCSF Instructor & member of OWL's Board