Mai Tran praised for exemplary service to middle school students
McAuliffe Middle School has honored Mai Tran, a volunteer and school parent, as its 2019-20 Hero of the Heart in a presentation before the Los Alamitos Unified School Board.
Tran is “the very first person everyone calls for any job they want to be perfectly executed from beginning to end,” said McAuliffe Principal Dr. Ryan Weiss-Wright. “She is fearless in her efforts to see that everything she touches is spectacular.”
Tran, who has a daughter at McAuliffe and two other children at Weaver Elementary, has served the middle school in many capacities, among them choir booster vice president and costume coordinator, event chair for the school’s A Cappella Café, PTA organizer for both Teacher Appreciation week and the Honorary Service Award event, Copy Angel and balloon designer for school events, said Cara Vienna, Assistant Principal at McAuliffe.
She called Tran a “selfless volunteer who never wants to be dragged into the spotlight but whose light burns too bright to only keep to ourselves.”
In accepting the award, along with an armload of balloon flowers from the school’s choir, Tran told school board members that “it’s really easy to volunteer when you have a great team like we do at McAuliffe.
