Inspiration From Brooke Mulford

Dear Mr. Albero:

I believe you knew about the Westside Intermediate School Destination Imagination team (The D.I. Funky Monkeys) that chose to have a fundraiser for Brooke Mulford as their D.I. Reel to Reel challenge for this year's competition. We would like you to know that this first year D.I. team of 3rd and 4th grade students not only won first place at the State competition at UMBC yesterday out of 21 Maryland teams in that challenge (and are heading to the D.I. Global competition in Knoxville, TN in May!), but they also won the coveted "Spirit of D.I." award and received a standing ovation at the awards ceremony at UMBC from all the teams that participated. Their presentation touched the hearts of so many people, and they did a magnificent job! We are so proud of these children, and hope to help them raise enough money to go to Globals. As Brooke was their inspiration and remains a special friend to the children at WIS, we are hoping that she can also go to the Globals in Tennessee to see the D.I. Funky Monkeys' presentation. We would just like you to share with the community this beautiful story, if you will.

Best wishes to the D.I. Funky Monkeys and, as always, prayers and love for Brooke.

Mr. Albero, although our message is simply to share with the community the goodness and inspiration we have seen in our children, if anyone would happen to ask if they could make a donation to the Funky Monkeys travel expenses (most funds have to be raised by the teams and supporters), we want you to have the information.  Any donation, no matter how small, will help these marvelous children get to the Global competition in Tennessee!

Westside Intermediate School

c/o Wendy Catlin, Bookkeeper

8000 Quantico Road

Hebron, MD  21830

Checks should be made payable to Westside Intermediate School.  Thanks so much for caring about Brooke and our D.I. team!!!