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The Del Norte High School AlumKnights® is asking for your support.

Did you attend the Celebrate the Knight event in June 2014 in commemoration of Del Norte’s 50th anniversary? Did you tailgate at Homecoming last October when the 1974 football team was honored on the 40th anniversary of taking the State Football Championship? Maybe you joined the AlumKnights® to have dinner at Sadie’s last November or breakfast at Applebee’s this June.

All of these events are sponsored by a dedicated group of Del Norte alumni who are working to support the students and staff at Del Norte with scholarships and other activities to help with specific student and school needs. We also hope to provide fun events for alumni to get together and see old friends…or make new ones! To continue our work, we need your support.

In 2012, a group of Del Norte alumni came together to establish the AlumKnights®, an alumni-sponsored service organization dedicated to serving the Del Norte community. Less than a year after AlumKnights® was established, we were pleased to award three $1,000 scholarships to students in the class of 2013. We have since provided scholarships to four students in the class of 2014 and six students in the class of 2015.

That’s a grand total of $14,000 awarded during our first three years as an organization – and we hope to do a lot more with your generous support!

Currently, we are working to raise $10,000 for scholarships and other student support activities during the 2015-16 school year. Our goal is ambitious, but with your help, we know it’s attainable.

Will you consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the AlumKnights®?

To contribute, please mail the AlumKnights Donation Form to the address specified or Donate Online.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Angelo Gonzales, Treasurer, treasurer@alumknights.info.

 

Greetings from the Del Norte High School AlumKnights®. As you are doing your year-end tax planning, we ask that you consider making a tax-deductible donation to AlumKnights, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

Your donation will support scholarships and other activities for students, teachers, and staff at Del Norte High School. In just the past two years, we are proud to report that we established the Drawbridge to Success scholarship fund and awarded $8,000 in scholarships to seven graduating seniors, who are now attending Central New Mexico Community College and the University of New Mexico.

Additionally, we hosted welcome-back breakfasts and lunches for teachers and school staff during the last two school years; we volunteered with and supported numerous Del Norte student organizations; we reinstalled the DNHS knight that was a gift of the class of 1966; we established a Del Norte Legacy “Brick Garden” on the site of the new school; and we held a very successful 50th Anniversary celebration last summer.

Over the next year, our goal is develop mentorship opportunities for current students and to award at least four new $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors from the Class of 2015 (Del Norte’s 50th graduating class).

In order to continue this important work, we need your help! We are currently asking for financial contributions to help support our ongoing endeavors. Any amount will help, but with a $25 contribution we can continue the success of the last year and take our work to the next level. Alternatively, you may wish to consider purchasing either a small or large brick ($50 and $100, respectively) for the Del Norte Legacy Brick Garden.

To donate, please mail the AlumKnights Donation Form to the address specified or Donate Online.

To learn more about how to purchase a brick for the Del Norte Legacy Brick Garden, please visit our Brick Garden Fundraiser page .

Thank you for your consideration. Your support will help promote Knight Pride and will ensure that the AlumKnights have the resources necessary to fully support the DNHS community.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Angelo Gonzales, Treasurer, treasurer@alumknights.info.