Few people take the time to talk to teenagers these days, even fewer on a regular basis. Walter Gallacher, however, is an exception with his work involving mentoring youth in the Pre-Collegiate Program.
Walter Gallacher is the Pre-Collegiate Mentor assigned to aid the current ninth-graders at Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale. His job as a mentor primarily consists of guiding his group of 12 students through the obstacles that school and the economy present them on their way to college.
Gallacher has been with this particular group from the time that they were seventh-graders in middle school. “They teach me as much as I teach them. It’s a great exchange,” Gallacher said. READ FULL STORY
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