LHS Alumni Career Share Day
The First Alumni Career Share Day was held on March 19, 1998.   More information on the day's activity to come in very soon..... meanwhile, look to the future (read on.)

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  Career Share Day II will be held on
Thursday, September 17th

What is the event?  
The Lincoln High School Alumni Association in cooperation with LHS, is planning the second Career Share event in the first month of the new semester. There is space for 130 alumni. Invitations will be going out soon to the participants of the First Career Share Day and others that would like to be notified.

Your Task?  
It begins in the morning with a continental breakfast and introductions to other participants, and then you will receive your assignments to various classrooms, a different one for each period.  
There will be a break at the Homeroom reporting where you can meet again in the library, or take a tour of the School, if you prefer.
The morning will end with the Luncheon and brief commentaries by the organizers and participants. The Lincoln H.S. Band should be able to come through with a few tunes for our personal entertainment.
The important part of your participation is what happens in between the food and breaks. Read on, please.

What kind of qualifications do you need to have?
Please don't feel intimidated if you are not a person who has not been in politics, show business, or other high visibility work.  Being a celebrity has nothing to do with the purpose of the event.  More important than the work you do or have done, is the fact that you care to spend your time to speak with the students. That is the qualification that is needed.

What are you going to do and why should it be done?
Your presentation involves spending one class period with each group of students.  You can clue them into what happened while you were at Lincoln and afterwards. You can tell them of the things in school that helped you the most or least in you job or in life.  You can tell them how things they do now will affect their future and talk about some examples from your accumulated experience to show them what they can do to help themselves.  Remember that lots of the students don't have any way to really know what kinds of things can happen after high school is over.

There are lots of students attending Lincoln who are not doing well in school, but at least they are still in school.  Your time spent may help these individuals to get more out of what they are doing now, and it will not hurt the students who are already doing well in school.  Lots of the students have doubts about the importance of being in school.  They would like to know that going to school is important.  This is where your experiences enter the picture.

Much like we felt when we were in high school, there was only the present time to use.  The future did not seem to be too important or real until it arrived.  
Preparation for the future can only help the students, and this is an opportunty to fill in the students on things from YOUR viewpoint..
 If your experience can help enlighten some of them, you have helped.  If you have questions about what you can do or how the presentation has to go, talk with some of the persons who participated at the last event (a list of names will be available), or call Vera Padilla at LHS.

Personal Benefits to Participants.
As usual with alumni activities, this is an entirely volunteer event which will call for a morning of your time, but you will get much in return for that time. Sorry, nothing you can spend directly.

One benefit that has come about from the past experience is that it gives we alumni the opportunity to see others we knew from years past, and  to meet yet more new acquiantances who have attended Lincoln and walked in the same halls and into the same classes we have.

The last group of participants agreed that the day was fun overall.  There are lots of tips available for how to handle your presentation time. You can ask for some suggestions from the group who participated in the first event. But when you are in the classrooom and you feel like you are getting stuck for something to say, just ask the students for their questions to you, or what is important to them, and ask them questions on their current experiences in school to show the differences from your time at Lincoln. You should see things going again quickly with this new input.

What else?
Bring a camera.  There should be some photo opportunities.  Lots of people, new and old.  The school has changed over the years, but a lot is still the same.

There is a luncheon  in the Cafeteria planned to conclude the activities for the day.   The luncheon for the first Career Share Day was provided by Charlie's Trio located in the El Sereno/Alhambra area.  There was both quantity and quality to satisfy all those who participated.  Many thanks to Charlie's Trio for their continued support of our activities. We look forward to their involvement with LHS activities.