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Local Teen Named Boys & Girls Club of Oakland Youth of the Year Martin Moreno Honored for Exellence in Academics, Leadership & Service
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland
OAKLAND, California|October 29, 2004
Martin Moreno is a true example of an extraordinary youth. At age 16, he has been recently selected as the Youth of the Year for Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland.
The Youth of the Year program, which is administered by Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and has been nationally sponsored by the Reader’s Digest Foundation since 1947, recognizes outstanding contributions to a member’s family, school, community and Boys & Girls Club, as well as personal challenges and obstacles overcome.
“The Reader’s Digest Foundation has been the proud sponsor of the Youth of the Year program for 59 years,” said Susan Fraysse Russ, executive director, Reader’s Digest Foundation. “We are thrilled that we can honor amazing teens like Martin Moreno for their dedication and hard work.”
Moreno is a two-year member of Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland, where he is a tutor and member of the Junior Staff Development Team and Keystone Club. As a junior honors student at St. Joseph’s Notre Dame High School, he presently maintains a 3.67 overall GPA and actively participates in the Latino Club and Winter Festival of the Arts. He has also helped develop and lead prejudice and discrimination awareness workshops at several high schools and youth centers through Diversity Works, a local non-profit organization, and is a member of the national Spanish Honors Society. Moreno plans to attend the University of California, San Diego, and major in computer science, and eventually would like to own his own internet-based company.
Calvester R. Stanley, Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland President, characterizes Moreno as “an exemplary and well-liked young man who has earned the respect of his peers, teachers, and Club staff through his excellent leadership abilities, integrity, creativity, and strong work ethic.”
Moreno will compete against other Boys & Girls Club student-members for the Youth of the Year title for the state of California and a $1,000 scholarship. If Moreno wins at the state level, then he will compete for the title of Pacific Region Youth of the Year and a $10,000 scholarship.
The five regional winners will travel to Washington, D.C., to compete for the title of BGCA’s National Youth of the Year. The National Youth of the Year receives an additional $15,000 college scholarship and is installed by the President in an Oval Office ceremony.
As founding sponsor of the program, the Reader’s Digest Foundation has given nearly $8 million to BGCA, and 58 teens have been named National Youth of the Year.
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