ECJH Principal Carlos McGregor, Asst. Principal Christa Ann Molloy and Agriculture teacher Stanley Farrelly, STX District Agriculture Director Velda Hendricks and students
The outpouring of support following the devastation of Hurricane Maria on St. Croix schools continues with the latest contribution of textbooks and school supplies to junior high schools on the island.
On Tuesday, March 6, Velda Hendricks, District Director of Agriculture with the Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE), with assistance of PBIS Coordinator Yolande Greene carted our several boxes filled with school supplies and textbooks to Arthur A. Richards, Elena Christian and John H. Woodson junior high schools Future Farmers of America (FFA) students.
A couple months after Hurricane Maria, Mrs. Hendricks, a U.S. Virgin Islands FFA Chapter Officer, reached out to the students at the Ravenna FFA in Michigan through their advisors to assist their counterparts on St. Croix. The Ravenna FFA students then held fundraisers to purchase school supplies and textbooks for the St. Croix junior high school FFA students. The results were six boxes loaded with school supplies of all kind from backpacks to pencils. Each junior high school was presented two boxes of supplies in the presence of students, agriculture instructors and school administrators.
Principal Carlos McGregor of the Elena Christian Junior High School was appreciative of the tremendous donation from the Ravenna FFA students. In thanking the Ravenna students, and Mrs. Hendricks for arranging the donation, he said during a presentation at Stanley Farrelly’s Agriculture class, “Our students will definitely benefit from these (school supplies) and especially from the (text) books that came in as well. So we look forward to seeing our students put these to use to help create a better agricultural program at Elena Christian.”
