Scarselli Elementary School Students participate in a Veterans Day assembly on Tuesday morning.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Scarselli Elementary students celebrated Veterans Week with singing and the naming of the school’s bus lane after alumna Fallon Montanucci.
Montanucci served as an airman 1st class guarding American’s nuclear arsenal until she was killed in an April 23, 2022, wrong-way collision while home on leave.
Her mother Paula and sister Avalon were on hand to help dedicate the bus lane.
It was the first time since 2014 that the school conducted an assembly in honor of veterans day.
The school’s namesake, former Douglas County Superintendent Gene L. Scarselli, served in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II and was captured by the Japanese. He survived the Bataan Death March and was held in Manchuria until freed at the end of the war. He served as superintendent from 1956 to 1975.
Veterans held the center seats in the school’s auditorium as children sang patriotic songs accompanied by members of the Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School Band who came from next door.
Gardnerville Elementary School conducts its annual veterans assembly 9 a.m. Wednesday at the school along Toler Lane.
