Due to the enthusiastic response of the audience, the program will be continued on a year-long basis. Parent volunteers also assisted with small-group library skills instruction for some classes. A wish list is provided at the Book Fairs so that parents can buy selected books at the Fair and donate them to the library. The LMS initiated a Carmen San Diego Club which meets weekly and involves approximately 20 children. Friends of the Torrey Pines High School Library Encinitas, California Activities and alliances mark the success of the Friends of the Torrey Pines High School Library and Media Center.
Volunteers keep busy with events and fund raisers.
And Partnerships with the Torrey Pines High School Foundation and its varied booster groups help the Friends reach a vast pool of students, parents and the community at large. Friends host dynamic literary events for students and adults. Poet, storyteller and dancer, Roxanne Young, met with more than 200 students and teachers during Black History Month, thanks to the Friends' honorarium. Dierdre Bair was the featured author at a luncheon in a local hotel. A fall author lunch featured three San Diego mystery thriller writers, Matt Pallamary, Nancy Holder and Mark Clements.