PHOTOS | SAVE MIDDLE SCHOOL SPORTS IS HONORED BY PDPLB 06-05-2011

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The Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach successful Save LBUSD Middle School Sports dinner at Curley's Cafe on June 5, 2011 garnered $1,895.00 in donations. The guests included Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster and Chris Stienhauser, the Superintendent of Long Beach Unified School District. Hearing a seventh grader from Franklin Middle School speak on the importance of sports to middle school students was the highlight of the evening.

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PDPLB - Save LBUSD Middle School Sports - June 5, 2011 Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach held a fundraiser to benefit Save Long Beach Unified School District Middle School Sports. Guests included Nancy Foster , wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster, Chris Steinhauser, Superintendent of Long Beach Unified School District, Harry Saltzgaver, Editor Of The Long Beach Gazette and Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation. The fundraiser earned approximately $1,800.00. PDPLB was very honored to have Tere Sievers and Lenore Brown as guests, two of the original PDP members. To learn more about this event please visit: http://bit.ly/jYCFhB .

The Save Long Beach Unified School District Middle School Sports supporters enjoy the bar at Curley's Cafe during the Progressive Dinner Party Fundraiser on June 5, 2011.	The Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach team poses behind the bar at Curley's Cafe with the owner Sean Hitchcock (right) and Earl Kelly (left), the spouse of PDPLB member Kristine Kelly. The PDPLB members are, Josi Jenneskens and her husband Spencer Langdon, Nancy Valencia, Kristine Kelly and Adreana Langston.	Lenore Brown and Teri Sievers, proving that a life of good works leads to continual beauty. They are original members of Progressive Dinner Party who came to support Save LBUSD Middle School Sports. With them are current PDPLB member Kristine Kelly and her spouse Earl Kelly.
Earl Kelly, spouse of PDPLB member Kristine Kelly, poses with PDPLB member Spencer Langdon behind the bar at Curley's Cafe during the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for Save Long Beach Unified School District Middle School Sports on June 5, 2011.	Adreana Langston cooks on the Curley's Cafe grill for the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach Fundraiser for Save Long Beach Unified School District Middle School Sports on June 5, 2011.	Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach member Spencer Langdon addresses the group at the Save LBUSD Middle School Sports fundraiser on June 5, 2011.
Long Beach Unified School District sports coaches came to the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser to support the Save LBUSD Middle School Sports campaign on June 5, 2011. In the background are Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster, Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation and Harry Saltzgave, editor for the Long Beach Gazatte.	Supporters of the Save LBUSD Middle School Sports Campaign at the Progressive Dinner Party Fundraiser at Curley's Cafe in Signal Hill on June 5, 2011.	Parents at teachers of Long Beach Unified School District middle school children enjoy the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for Save LBUSD Middle School Sports on June 5, 2011.
	Members of the Long Beach Education Foundation Save LBUSD Middle School Sports Committee pose with track former track coach Michael Lynn: Susan Tanaka, George Tanaka, Melanie Tanaka, Don Tanaka and Michael Lynn.	Renny Chu, Administrative Assistant to the office of the LBUSD Superintendent, addresses the group at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach Fundraiser for Save LBUSD Middle School Sports on June 5, 2011.
Former President of the Long Beach Century Club Mark Halloran (in olive green long sleeve shirt), sits with other Long Beach Century Club members	Chris Steinhauser, Superintendent of Long Beach Unified School District, speaks about the importance of voters putting pressure on Sacramento legislators to adequately fund education. Harry Saltzgaver, editor of The Long Beach Gazette, Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster and Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation, look on (from the left) in interest. From the right original PDPLB members Lenore Brown and Teri Sievers look on in interest. This was at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for Save LBUSD Middle School Sports on June 5, 2011	Chris Steinhauser, Superintendent of Long Beach Unified School District, speaks about the importance of voters putting pressure on Sacramento legislators to adequately fund education. Harry Saltzgaver, editor of The Long Beach Gazette, Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster and Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation, look on (from the left) in interest. From the right original PDPLB members Lenore Brown and Teri Sievers look on in interest. This was at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for Save LBUSD Middle School Sports on June 5, 2011.
Chris Steinhauser, Superintendent of Long Beach Unified School District, speaks about the importance of voters putting pressure on Sacramento legislators to adequately fund education. Harry Saltzgaver, editor of The Long Beach Gazette, Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster and Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation, look on (from the left) in interest. This was on June 5, 2011 at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for Save LBUSD Middle School Sports.	Chris Steinhauser, Superintendent of Long Beach Unified School District, speaks about the importance of voters putting pressure on Sacramento legislators to adequately fund education. Harry Saltzgaver, editor of The Long Beach Gazette, Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster and Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation, look on (from the left) in interest. This was on June 5, 2011 at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for Save LBUSD Middle School Sports.	Renny Chu, Administrative Assistant to the office of the LBUSD Superintendent, applauds after a Franklin Middle School student speaks at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach Fundraiser for Save LBUSD Middle School Sports on June 5, 2011.
Eliza Matthews, a seventh grader from Franklin Middle School sits with her mother, Kimberly Johnson and her basketball coach at the Save Long Beach Middle School Sports fundraiser hosted by Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach on June 5, 2011. At the event Ms. Matthews read an essay she wrote about the importance of sports in the lives of middle school students.	Eliza Matthews, 7th grade basketball player at Franklin Middle School, reads her essay about the importance of middle school sports for the crowd at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for Save Long Beach Unified School District Save Middle School sports on June 5, 2011.	Harry Saltzgaver, editor of the Long Beach Gazette, Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster, Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation and Renny Chu, Administrative Assistant to the office of the LBUSD Superintendent and Susan Tanaka, PTA parent and committee member pose at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for the Save LBUSD Middle School Sports campaign.
Harry Saltzgaver, editor of the Long Beach Gazette, Nancy Foster, wife of Long Beach Mayor Foster, Judy Seal, Executive Director of the Long Beach Education Foundation and Renny Chu, Administrative Assistant to the office of the LBUSD Superintendent pose at the Progressive Dinner Party Long Beach fundraiser for the Save LBUSD Middle School Sports campaign.