Get Real Academy

Rest in Peace dear Terry Comiskey 💟✝️💟

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Anne Terese “Terry” Comiskey Anne Terese “Terry” Comiskey (Abbatemarco) passed away peacefully on Saturday May 11th, 2024. Terry was born in Brooklyn, to the late John Abbatemarco and Anne McCaffrey and grew up in …

Our Get Real Academy (GRA) Planning Committee had to put our “out-of-the-box” thinking caps on this year.

Our March 4, 2021 event went VIRTUAL using Zoom!

We had quality speakers providing workshops that were once again well received by the female students & their counselors.

Please read further in the article written by our District Director, Bev Gomer. It can be found on pages 12 & 13 of the attached Soroptimist Founder Region Newsletter.

Check out the March issue of the Founder Region Newsletter. There are lots of conference reminders inside!
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“If she can dream it - she can be it!" is the motto of Soroptimist International's Dream It, Be It program known as the “Get Real Academy” in Contra Costa County, California.

Today we had our 2020 “Get Real Academy (GRA).”

Our day-long life skills conference for senior high school girls is organized and funded by the following Soroptimist Clubs: 24-680 (Walnut Creek), Antioch, Diablo Vista, Martinez, Pittsburg, and The Delta.

These six Soroptimist Clubs raise approximately $25,000 every year in order to provide 200 senior high school girls with this day-long conference which includes breakfast & lunch. There is no cost to students or to the high schools they attend.

Workshop subjects include: Preparing for a Job Interview, Mock Job Interviews, Resiliency, Money Management, Women’s Health, and Violence Awareness. Local business women and Soroptimist members donate their time and talent to lead these life-skills workshops.

We had two lunchtime speakers this year. Christine Loscalzo, Special Agent with the FBI whose presentation is well received every year and Delphine Metcalfe Foster, Past National Commander, Disabled American Veterans.

Here are pictures from our Get Real Academy held today, March 5, 2020 at the Concord Hilton, Concord, California.

We are counting down to GET REAL ACADEMY 2019 at 47 days and counting until Thursday, March 7, 2019! If you are a high school senior girl in Central and East Contra Costa County check with your school counselor for up to date information.