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Derek Vann appears in your May/June issue of Mount
Pleasant Magazine as a 2016 Favorite Dad.
FYI: His daughter, Sophia, has been my I-Beam student
for the last four years at Whitesides Elementary School.
The I-Beam mentoring program has a student with reading
difficulties meet with an adult mentor for one hour each week
during the school year. You start with your student in the
second grade and continue with them through fifth grade.
For a half hour, the student either reads to you or with you,
or you read to them, depending on their ability. The last half
hour is spent going to lunch with them in the school cafeteria
to socialize. Sophia is in the fifth grade and final year of her
I-Beam program with me. I’ve known her mom, Saritta,
for awhile now and just met her dad, Derek, last week at a
school musical that Sophia was participating in. Matthew was
with them also. I’d met him before since he used to attend
Whitesides before advancing to middle school.
They’re a wonderful family, and I was happy to see Derek
nominated as a 2016 Favorite Dad.
Thank you,
Al Bradshaw-Whittemore
Thank you for publishing the short essay about my wife,
Beth Ann DeRycke Chaconas, on page 20 of the “Mom
& Dad” edition of Mount Pleasant Magazine. Beth Ann’s
recognition was well deserved; it absolutely made her
Mother’s Day!
Beth Ann has received many compliments. Best of all, her
mom and brothers and sisters and extended family from
upstate New York have fallen in love with your publication.
I wonder why?!
Your follow-up of my online submission was incredible. You
are fast, efficient and professional.
Since we are practically neighbors, I will stop by your office
one afternoon for a quick introduction. It would be my
pleasure to meet you.
Thanks again for the best Mother’s Day gift ever!
Appreciatively,
Paul Chaconas :)
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