CERRITOS, Calif. – LBS Financial Credit Union delivered thousands of school supplies along with eight new banners to Whitney High School in Cerritos to help initiate a successful start to the 2019-2020 school year.
John Briquelet, principal of Whitney High School, provided the CU with a wish list at the beginning of the summer that included a variety of school supplies and a request for Distinguished School banners for every year they had received this designation to hang in front of the school. On Sept. 13th, LBS Financial delivered thousands of dollars in supplies along with eight Distinguished School banners.
During the summer, LBS Financial promoted its school supply drive for Whitney High School with Credit Union members at their Cerritos branch location and on their website. Members donated school supplies from the provided wish list the school developed. Internally, the CU promoted two jeans days with staff, encouraging donations to wear jeans. Donations from the staff jeans days went toward the Credit Union’s school supply drives and was combined with a special budget set aside for the school.
"We could not be more excited or more appreciative to have the support of LBS Financial,” said Briquelet. “The many boxes of school supplies they provided us will benefit both our students and staff, and the banners they created to commemorate Whitney's eight California Distinguished School Awards will permit us to proudly show who we are as a school and a community."
This is the credit union’s ninth year of adopting a school in ABC Unified School District. LBS Financial also adopted two additional schools in Bellflower Unified School District and Long Beach Unified School Districts