Pat Willingham

"My mom was one of the few working moms at that time," said Kerns' older daughter, Pat Willingham, who's now the director of personnel for the Salinas City Elementary School District."I don't think we realized how special and unique it was until we were older."

Willingham said her mother encouraged her and her sisters to go to college.
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Willingham said Kerns will join family members on a trip to Europe in July and may do some hiking in the Swiss Alps.

Patricia Willingham

Principal
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Patricia Willingham

Principal

University Park's current principal, Pat Willingham, will become the district's director of personnel, a position she's held before.
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"We're all upset about losing Pat because she's been good for our school, but I think (Middaugh) will be a good fit for the school," Schuman said.
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"We know the kids, we know the routine; Pat (Willingham) has everything in place for us," agreed University Park kindergarten teacher Rochelle Breschini.

"Of course we are hoping for a miracle," said principal Pat Willingham.

His classmates have written cards and notes.

The school has been updated with his condition about every other day.

"There has been no change," Willingham said.

"My image of him is playing dodgeball everyday," she added."He had lots of personality.He was very active."

After several kids learned of his condition on Friday they had asked to see a school counselor, Willingham said.She expects that more will.

"It would be very, very difficult for us to fund the music program at this point," University Park Principal Pat Willingham said.

University Park Principal Pat Willingham said the school has revised its teaching methods to raise those numbers.

"Our new, adopted curriculum is a new standards-based curriculum," she said.

About 3,130 students were absent from the Salinas City Elementary School District, with more than 50 percent of children absent at Los Padres and Sherwood schools, said Pat Willingham, director of personnel for the district.

Pat Willingham, personnel director for the Salinas City district, discounted rumors of imminent layoffs and school closings.

"It's going to be really tight," Willingham said.

Principal: Pat Willingham

At University Park, the 650 students in grades kindergarten through sixth will observe a moment of silence followed by a brief school-wide assembly, but any other Sept. 11-related instruction will be handled in the classrooms, Principal Pat Willingham said.

"We're going to observe it individually," Willingham said, "because there's such a difference in the degree of understanding from the younger kids to the older kids.We do things that are appropriate to grade level."

University Park students are participating in Character Week, a series of lesson plans and books that touch on good traits, such as character, bravery and responsibility, in commemoration of Sept. 11.

"Again, this will be a class-by-class approach, rather than an extensive explanation to one large group of students," Willingham said."The kindergartners don't have any sense of where New York is, and no sense of time has been developed yet."

On Wednesday, nearly all schools plan to hold commemoration ceremonies that are "age-and grade-appropriate," educators' terminology for honoring those who lost their lives in a way that children can understand and deal with.

Ceremonies here and throughout California will likely start with Gov.Gray Davis' mandated moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. PDT.