West Valley employee, Magguie has been an employee at LILA for many many years.  She initially started working at the school in an attempt to help pay for her daughter Monique's tuition who at the time was just a little tike... Monique is all grown up now but her two brothers are still at LILA... Monique was at LILA through 10th grade and her amazing accomplishments at LILA led to her receiving a scholarship to do an IB program at the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, N.M. where she finished out high school.  We are proud to count her as one of our Alumni and not a bit surprised that she should accomplish so much so quickly and will receive the McMullan Award at Emory University this year.  The link below leads to the school's site and to an article about Monique's accomplishments:

http://www.emory.edu/home/news/releases/2009/05/mcmullan-award-to-scholar-activist-and-campus-leader.html


We forwarded the Emory link to our teachers who responded immediately.  LILA history teacher, Sophie Riaux-Desblanc send us the following note:

"Thank you so much for forwarding this article,it is so wonderful to see that Monique accomplished some of the dreams she talked about when she was in...8th grade..! formidable!"