The Pasteur Elementary School Alumni Foundation is anon-profit, 501(c)(3), tax exempt organization.

We started the alumni foundation in 1996 and are dedicated to helping the current students of Pasteur Elementary School. It is located on Stoepel and Pembroke in northwest Detroit. We are the first and largest alumni association of an elementary school in Detroit.

Our database has over 1,500 alumni who attended the school since 1939. We have members who live all over the U.S., Canada and Israel. We are diverse in many ways, but all have a special feeling for our old school, friends, teachers, and neighborhood.

We publish an annual newsletter and member directory with contact information. The directory is sent only to members. Currently we have over 250 members. Many old friends have been re-connected through our Foundation. Some of our many activities include,  weekly reading to classes, tutoring, giving books to all the students, dictionaries to all graduates and scholarships for college.

Please check out the whole website to view our many accomplishments, programs, letters from students, news, interesting stories, photos, facts and our newsletters. We will add more soon! We spent $18,000 last year on programs, field trips, camp, books, food, etc. for the children. To be ecologically sound we send a hard copy of the newsletter only to alumni who are not on the internet. This saves money, paper and time.

JUNE 11, 2012 - PROMOTION

We gave large, hard cover dictionaries to all 34 sixth graders who were promoted. The alumni were thanked by student Candace Watts for everything we have done for them. She specifically mentioned the trip to see the live production of The Diary of Anne Frank at the Berman Theatre performed by the Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET) and for loaning books on the Holocaust. She also thanked us for Earth Day and Barry Waldman's contribution of plants for everyone. Five alumni graduating from high school approached us afterward about applying for college scholarships. The application is on this website. 

JUNE 12, 2012 - InsideOut Literary Arts Project

We suggested 3 years ago that this would be a great program to bring into the school. Sharon Lawson, our principal, finally got it in the budget. A professional writer worked each week with 3rd and 4th grade to produce their own poetry. The published books for Pasteur were distributed to all the authors at a ceremony in the auditorium!

JUNE 13, 2012 - Journal Journey Ends

Wendy Wagenheim presented all the 4th graders with their journals which had traveled all over the country receiving entries from alumni. The children were thrilled to read some of the essays in front of their classmates. Postcards from everywhere arrived at the school each week from Pasteur alumni. Fran Gross co-chaired this program. 

The Alumni Foundation also sponsored a field trip today to the Motown Museum and lunch for a special group of students.

"SUMMER IN THE CITY" RUNS CAMP PASTEUR FOR 2012

We donated money again for SITC to do programming for our students the last Friday of each week of summer school. They will also host a 2-week camp in August. Last year the children had trips to Belle Isle, Wayne State, the Riverfront and more. The SITC volunteers directed art, sports and helped our kids have lots of summer fun. Check out www.summerinthecity.com for photos!

PACKED FOOD, BOOKS AND PUZZLES - December, 2012

   Thanks to our 20 volunteer packers who helped fill boxes for 50 families in need! Much appreciation goes out to all of you who contributed extra donations. The foundation spent $2,300 + the Vesco Oil Corp. gave $3,000. The boxes each had a turkey, and another meat choice with all the staples for a great meal for 50 families.

   Because we had so many donations of books and puzzles every child who came to the last day of school in December received something.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING SEND 28 STUDENTS TO THE NASA SPACE LAUNCH - APRIL 2011

 Our students,teachers and chaperones had a great seat in the bleachers at the launch site,when they heard the launch was postponed indefinitely. Our students were still able to get a VIP tour of  the Kennedy Space Center in Florida! Most of the children and some parents had never been outside of Michigan. The parents were extremely grateful that the children had this amazing experience. Upon returning they spoke about everything they had seen. Interestingly, they said how close they all feel having experienced thistrip together even though they were grades 3-5.

Many thanks to all who helped fund this project!

The Detroit Jewish Coalition for Literacy hosted a Literacy Program with Free Press writer Rochelle Riley last March. Marcy Feldman spoke about how to start an organized advocacy group in a school, sighting PESAF'saccomplishments and how we do it.

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THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR PROGRAMS WITH YOUR MEMBERSHIP. 

WE HAVE 257 MEMBERS! Thanks to this website we are attracting more alumni!

Tell your friends and siblings to visit us!

The students, staff, and families of Pasteur Elementary School appreciate your support!

• First Grade Reading Program - books to each child and teacher
• Journal Journey - composition books, postage, maps, atlas
• Earth Day - materials on how to save the Earth, refreshments for speakers
• Funding "Summer in the City" summer programming and Camp Pasteur
• 400 new books to the children
• Career Day - art supplies, refreshments for speakers
• Food boxes and books for 50 families for Christmas
• We thank the Vesco Oil Corporation - Marjory Winkelman Epstein and Donald Epstein for Target Gift Cards for each family for Christmas
• Sponsored the 6th grade trip to see the Jewish Ensemble Theatre's production of The Diary of Anne Frank
• Book Club - all the books for the year + Elissa Driker Ohren
• Hosting an end of the year tour of the Motown Museum and pizza dinner for honor students

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