“Three years ago, the Menlo Park City School District community received a gift, in the form of a brand new, state-of-the-art school bus, and, more importantly, a one-in-a-million bus driver named WILFIN MORALES,” Kate Kennedy, a parent at Encinal School in Menlo Park, wrote in the school’s newsletter Encinal Connections.
Several days a week, Kennedy noted, Morales heads from his job in Menlo Park to Stanford, where he drives a Marguerite bus.
But it’s his day job that has won Morales recognition from the County of San Mateo. Recently, the San Mateo County Office of Education named Morales the 2011 San Mateo County Classified School Employee of the Year. And he is a nominee for 2011 California Classified Employee of the Year.
The Dish heard about Morales’ recognition from RALPH CASTRO, manager of the substance abuse prevention program in Health Promotion Services at Vaden Health Center.
“In full disclosure—Wilfin drives my son to school each morning, and he is an awesome person,” Castro wrote in an email.
