EL SEGUNDO HERALD May 21, 2020 Page 3
School Spotlight
Mychal’s Learning Place Gives
Back to Frontline Workers
Mychal’s Learning Place, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit
dedicated to optimizing the potential of
youth and young adults with developmental
disabilities, has been finding ways to give back
to our community during these unprecedented
times. Emmanuel, one of our part-time bakers,
and Jeanne, one of our stellar volunteers,
have taken over our Mykie’s kitchen! They,
along with several awesome volunteers, have
been hard at work to ensure that our frontline
workers know that they are appreciated.
Throughout these past few weeks, we have
seen how this global epidemic can change
daily routines and social norms. The beauty
of it is many of us have banded together
to make sure that we are still taking care
Emmanuel and Jeanne working hard in the kitchen
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Overlook Hospital in New Jersey
Jonny Felker Reaching His Goals
By Gregg McMullin
The El Segundo high school class of 2020
is just a few weeks from graduating. I’ve had
the opportunity to meet some of the class’ top
students and athletes. Jonny Felker is not only
one of his class’ top students scholastically
but a standout runner on the cross country
team and is an Eagle Scout.
Jonny is one of those extraordinary individuals
who have leadership qualities to go
along with a strong work ethic to achieve
his goals. He has had tremendous success in
the classroom and is helped motivated by his
desire to be the best he can be. During this
time of on-line classroom learning he says,
“Staying current with all of my classes is
really tough. It’s harder to focus at home, so
homework takes longer than it should. You
just have to force yourself to not be distracted
until whatever assignment is finished.”
Naturally Jonny misses his friends as online
schooling prevails and says, “It’s weird
from seeing your friends everyday, then going
immediately to not seeing them at all. So, I
miss seeing all the people I went to classes
with.” He says he stays in touch with social
media outlets and the old fashioned way,
the telephone.
Jonny’s success in the classroom has
translated into one of the tops in his class.
He has a 4.5 GPA with three AP classes that
has made it a challenge. During the week of
finals he found it necessary to block out all
distractions to concentrate. He says that his
favorite class this year is, “Biomed with Mrs.
Tucker. It’s easily my less stressful class. I
had a really good table of classmates which
makes it that much better.”
With Jonny’s leadership skills, personality
and his high standing in his class he was
selected as an OSS cabin leader. He was
in charge of 11 sixth graders for a week
and admits at times it was a challenge. His
brother Mathew was a camp leader as a
junior and senior so he wanted to follow in
his footsteps.“While we were up there, we
were working basically the whole day. It
Jonny Felker heads to the University of Utah in the fall with
his 4.5 GPA
was always super rewarding when they’d
just say how cool I was out of nowhere.” It
was an experience he says he’ll never forget.
With his grades Jonny could attend just
about any University in the country. He
will attend the University of Utah in the
fall majoring in Biology. He says ultimately
he’d like to be a doctor and has an interest
in Anesthesiology. “I feel like I would be
See Jonny Felker, page 9
Jonny Felker saved his best for his last race. He bettered his 3200 meter time by 23 seconds.
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of each other in the ways that we can. We,
at Mychal’s, are making sure that we are
thanking, and will continue to thank all of
the people who are putting their lives at risk
for us every day. To date, we have given
away over 6,000 cookies. We are working
with the Simms Group through a donation of
500 cookies a week to go with their meals
to our frontline workers.
We appreciate all of our essential workers:
nurses, doctors, emergency services personnel,
and our police officers, just to name a
few. If you would like to donate in honor
of frontline workers, please email info@
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