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The Izzy Juarez Super Citizen Awards Celebrate Success

NWOC Helps in Bernalillo

 

While assisting the Coronado Optimist Club in Bernalillo, NWOC presented the Izzy Juarez Keep UP the Good Work Award to elementary school Super Citizens from Algodones, Bernalillo, Carroll and Placitas Elementary Schools.  Our host school was Carroll Elementary School.

 

NWOC President Corky Frederick represent the Northwest Optimist Club where Izzy Juarez was a member for many years.  

In Izzy's honor, the Northwest Optimist Club provided the student certificates and assist in the pizza purchase for our winners and their families.  Members of the Route 66 Optimist Club delivered ice cream floats for dessert.  The Coronado Club provided the pizza and salad to round out the banquets.

What IS . . . 

The Izzy Juarez 

Keep Up the Good Work Award?

 

Following an Optimist International tradition, School Principal Izzy Juarez instituted an Optimist "Student of the Month" program at his Sierra Vista Elementary School in Paradise Hills during the 1990’s. 

 

His monthly program recognized students who had improved in some way—attendance, homework, behavior, individual performance.  The honored students and their families were invited to luncheon to celebrate the students’ improvement. 

 

In 2015 the Coronado Optimist Club modeled its annual program on Mr. Juarez’s example and invited the NWOC and other area Optimist Clubs to join in the celebration.  In 2018-19, NWOC re-instituted The Izzy back on the westside at Marie Hughes Elementary School.

 

Thanks to excellent school leadership, NWOC continues to make quarterly awards to third graders at Marie Hughes Elementary School in Taylor Ranch.  The two winning students each quarter will receive gift cards and gift certificates.

 

Thank You, Izzy

 

Mr. Juarez was able to attend in 2015 COC’s first Izzy Juarez Keep Up the Good Work Award, just months before his death.

 

Izzy Juarez was a life member and former president of our Northwest Optimist Club in Albuquerque, and an Albuquerque Public Schools’ elementary school principal. 

 

Optimist International is a community service organization that operates through its Optimist Clubs of volunteers.

Mr. Israel 'Izzy' Juarez receives recognition in 2015 at the first annual "Izzy Juarez Keep Up the Good Work Award" celebration for Super Citizens held in Bernalillo in conjunction with the Coronado Optimist Club.

The Izzy Juarez Keep Up the Good Work Award

for Super Citizens in the Third Grade

at Marie Hughes Elementary School

 

1st Quarter - Wednesday, Sept. 25

Third Graders Alissandra Gutierrez and Johnathan Villareale receive NWOC's first Izzy Juarez Super Citizen Awards October 5, 2018 at Marie Hughes Elementary School.  Further Super Citizen Awards were made January 11 and April 5.

NWOC President Frank "Corky" Frederick presents the 2017 Izzy Juarez Awards to Bernalillo Public School's Super Citizens on behalf of the Coronado Optimist Club of Bernalillo and the Northwest and Route 66 Optimist Clubs of Albuquerque.

Friend of Youth

A motto and a way of life at the

Northwest Optimist Club!

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