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The Power of One Senior Volunteer Program was developed in 1996 from the vision of a Shoreline School Board member, Dr. Bill Schnall. He wanted to involve senior citizens in education. To accomplish this dream, he went to the Shoreline Senior Center board of directors meeting and presented his idea. His idea became a reality due to the hard work and dedication of Cecilia Patterson, a senior center board member, and Andy Rogers, assistant principal at Kellogg Middle School. Cecilia recruited senior volunteers and Andy coordinated placement of the volunteers in the interested schools. The program was so successful that a volunteer coordinator was hired the next year to manage the program and it has grown since then to a program with many active volunteers.
Power of One Volunteers are 55 years or older who have time to give. In the past 10 years, over 110 volunteers have been assigned to one of the 15 schools in the Shoreline School District. All of our volunteers are members of RSVP - the national Retired and Senior Volunteer program of America, which has been in service since it was established in 1971 by President Nixon. The Power of One program is one of 130 RSVP stations in King County.
The Shoreline Public Schools consists of 11 elementary, 1 alternative education school, 2 middle schools and 2 high schools with a total of 10,000 students.
