Navistar International Black Employee Network Donates Supplies to Schools
Article Date: September 18, 2008
Representatives from the Garland Black Employee Network of Navistar International continued its longstanding support of GISD schools last month by donating school supplies to five Title I campuses.
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The Navistar group delivered its contribution GISD’s Harris Hill Administration Building in one of its patented “monster trucks,” manufactured here in the Garland plant. Principals from the five schools helped the group unload supplies from a six-foot-high truck bed.
“It is wonderful that members of our community exemplify a sense of ownership in the welfare of our schoolchildren,” said Donnell Alexander, a counselor support specialist for GISD. “The school is onlya part of this community. It takes all of us to be successful in educating and guiding our young people.”
Title I campuses are those recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as having a higher percentage of students from low-income families. Park Crest, Bullock, Bradfield, Freeman and Golden Meadows were the five schools chosen.
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Navistar International is the transportation-based holding company that produces International® commercial trucks, mid-range diesel engines and school buses. The Garland plant is one of the nation’s leading producers of International trucks.