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Save the Date
Save the date for our exciting giving day — 1Day1SMC: National Superhero Day edition!
On Wednesday, April 28 — National Superhero Day — join the rest of our Gael community in celebrating the SMC heroes that have stepped up to the challenges of the past year, and support the heroes of tomorrow — our current and future students.
Gael Class Challenge
Alumni have a special opportunity for some friendly competition this year: 2021 Gael Class Challenge.
Think your SMC class has the most spirit? Show our Gael community by making a gift of any amount, and see your class year rise in the leaderboards. The class with the greatest participation will get ultimate bragging rights!
Meet Some SMC Superheroes
Marisela
Meet one of our many Saint Mary's superheroes! Marisela has been a part of the Saint Mary's family for 25 years, ensuring that our students have a clean and safe learning environment.
COVID-19 taught us all that cleanliness was not just a virtue, but a superpower! And Marisela’s powers extend even beyond that. For generations of Saint Mary’s students, she’s been a friendly face, a person to talk to and bond with. She prays on behalf of students when she knows they have rigorous exams, and celebrates their successes in her favorite way: dancing! Her work and her heart have been instrumental in keeping our campus safe, and our students connected. Marisela is a true Saint Mary's superhero, a member of our Gael family who inspires everyone around her to become more. You can support our student superheroes as well by making a gift on our big giving day: 1Day1SMC.
Maile ’21
Maile ’21 is a current student flexing her superpowers! She has helped bring food – even a monthly produce truck — to the campus community through her work and research with the GaelPantry, and in collaboration with the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.
But that’s not the only way she lives up to all three of the superheroic words in her major — Justice, Community, and Leadership. She makes campus life better and provides students with support and meaning as a Resident Advisor and mentor for the Lasallian Living Learning Community – all while earning a minor in Sociology, too!
Support students like Maile and the many others who give so much of themselves to the Saint Mary's community by joining us on April 28 for 1Day1SMC.
Fernando Garcia
The challenges of the past year are no match for the overwhelming positive energy Fernando Garcia, Retail and Pub Manager, radiates at SMC. Whether pouring a warm latte in the morning, or a cold beverage at the Pub, Fernando elevates the spirits of everyone around him – and the thank-you cards he receives from students are proof! He keeps them safe with friendly mask and social distancing reminders, by keeping up with increased sanitation demands, and by bringing light and life to their experiences every single day.
With the superpowers of gratitude, adaptability, and kindness, Fernando can truly do it all. But you need only to do one thing to help on April 28! Join us on 1Day1SMC: National Superhero Day edition by making a gift to support the superheroes of SMC!