Halyburton Sailors Welcome Women of Tomorrow

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Gay, Fleet Week Media Center

Dresses and Dreams

BY DAIANA KUCAWCA
dkucawca@MiamiHerald.com

Danielle Mckye draped five dresses over one arm while balancing a purse in the other. Designer ball gowns by Gucci, Cache, Dolce & Gabbana. Danielle, 16, a senior at Killian High, chose a to-the-knee, spaghetti strap, dark purple Cache dress, along with a matching silver necklace and earrings with a hint of purple.

It’s Not What You Give It’s What You Get

By Yvonne Carey Lederer

After a wildly successful 13 years helping high school girls achieve dreams beyond their potential with co-founder Jennifer Valoppi, the uber-committed President of Women of Tomorrow (WOT), he makes a point of noting several instances where his brush with former mentees made him beam, and when mentors who concluded the commitment to WOT have called and remarked how wonderful being mentors made then feel.

Girls Get A Good, Glammed-Up Deal In The Gables

BY CHRISTINA LOREN | CBS 4
CLoren@cbs.com

A number of young women are more excited than ever about what sometimes is seen as a right of passage in high school: prom. Tuesday, sixty local girls were given the Fairy Godmother treatment when it comes to prom dresses, accessories and shoes – all thanks to the generosity of South Floridians.

Broward WOT Mentor chosen as new Mayor of Coconut Creek

Creek Commission chooses new mayor, vice mayor

The members of the Coconut Creek City Commission, at the March 11 meeting, "passed the gavel" to a new mayor and vice mayor in the annual five-vote election.

2010 WOT Annual Gala Coverage

Women of Tomorrow held its Annual Gala this past Saturday, March 20th at the Mandarin Oriental, Miami. Check out the links below for People En Espanol, LIFE,  Telemundo's, Haute Living & The SunPost's coverage of the event.

Students learn about becoming victims

BY MICHELLE HAMMONTREE-GARCIA

Miami-Dade school instructor Angel Menendez held up a dusty poster before a group of high school seniors. The poster bore the image of his former student, Shannon Melendi, and the words: kidnapped, rapped and murdered while at college.

His warning: don't be a victim.

You don't want to end up on a crumbled up, old poster in the back of someone's closet, said Menendez, 57, who was Melendi's teacher, mentor and soccer coach at Southwest High School.

Coconut Creek grad Pressley to represent U.S. at Pan Am Junior Championships

Her coach and teammates would take turns steadying the high jump bar over an old, water-soaked pit at the City of Lauderhill Sports Park.

For Maya Pressley, it was a start.

"The water from the pit would come up and hit her in the face every time she hit the mat," said her longtime Lauderhill Track Club coach Ted Beverly.

"It wasn't much. It was tough…a rough beginning but it's how she got started and she never complained. She went from the playground to world-class."