JEMAA welcomes the 121st Graduating Class of

Jules E. Mastbaum AVTS

The Class of 2017!

     On Monday, June 19th, at the Holy Family College in Philadelphia JEMAA welcomed the next group of panthers to our ranks.  We presented the following awards to the graduates from funds collected from our membership dues and donations from Mastbaum alums:

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING GRADUATES

WHO RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING JEMAA AWARDS:

ALUMNI AWARD - $ 3,000.00 to Kyara Luckey attending Penn State University

MEMORIAL AWARD (memory of deceased classmates) - $ 1,000.00 to Jason E. Diaz attending Thaddeus Stephens

NUNCIO CALI Award (school spirit)  - $ 600.00 to Cynthia M Morales attending Penn State University

DR CHARLES CLARKE Award (leadership/communication skills) - $ 200.00 to Yareiny Collazo attending Community College of Philadelphia

JOHN LAURIELLO Award (continuing in Graphic Arts) - $ 1,000.00 to Shineidy vazquez attending Community College of Philadelphia

RALPH "Bones" SCHNEIDER Award (excelling in sports)  - $ 500.00 to Ruby Rawls attending Penn State University

RALPH "Bones" SCHNEIDER Award (excelling in Sports)  - $ 500.00 to Miguel Camacho attending City university of New York

MARY SPRAGUE Award (excelling in English going to college) - $ 500.00 to Diorcalix Perrez attending Johnson & Wales University R.I.

FRANCIS J. STRAUB Military Award (enlistment in military service) - $ 500.00 to Thomas Rodriguez enlistment in the U.S. Army upon graduation.

     All grads must have maintained a minimum 3.0 GPA and be continuing their education in either a college/university or technical school.

     Through the years, JEMAA has presented over $ 70,000 to deserving seniors at graduation.  This can only happen by your generosity through your annual membership dues (55% goes to the grad funds) and your individual donations to the various funds.

     Classmates from the 2017 class, please GO to the CLASSMATES NEEDING UPDATES tab and update your information, including your email address, so you can keep in touch with each other in the coming years.

WORDS TO JULES E MASTBAUM ALMA MATER (MUSIC ABOVE)

HAIL TO THEE, PRAISE TO THEE,

SCHOOL OF RED AND BLUE.

TO THY NAME AND THY FAME

WE'LL BE EVER TRUE.

EVER TOWARD OUR GOALS WE'LL LABOR,

SONS AND DAUGHTERS TOO.

EVER FORWARD, NEVER WAVER,

'TIL OUR TASK IS THROUGH

HAIL TO THEE, PRAISE TO THEE.

LOVE AND HONOR TOO.

PRIDE IN THEE, LOYAL-TY, ALL TO MASTBAUM DUE.

FROM THY PORTALS WE WILL VENTURE, TRAINED IN HAND AND MIND,

READY FOR LIFE'S GREAT ADVENTURE,

WORK WITH ALL MANKIND.

We Need Your Help

     Your Alumni Association can really use some help, we are very few in number and we are all getting older.  We need some of the younger alumni, particularly those who graduated in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s to get involved in the Executive Board and attend our monthly meetings (however any alumni who would like to help will not be turned away).  We need help planning our annual events or suggestions of other types of events that may help us to raise the funds we need to continue doing what we do for our school and the Graduation Awards for the students attending now.  Your help is always needed and appreciated.  Attendance has been dwindling at our annual events over the last few years (Shore Reunion and Dinner Dance) and we need to figure out how to turn this around since these are the two big fund raisers we hold.

If you have any suggestions please come out to an Executive Board meeting and let’s talk about it.  Our Meetings are held on the 3^rd Monday of each month at the Fox Chase Library at 501 Rhawn St, they begin at 6:45 pm and last about an hour (no meetings in January, February, July or August).  Our next meeting will be on Monday, September 18, 2017 at 6:45pm at the Fox Chase Library, 501 Rhawn St.  Hope to see you there….