Gervais librarian’s Disney wish granted by Dream Foundation
“When You Wish Upon a Star” greeted an unsuspecting Jalen Miller Friday as she walked into a Gervais High School gymnasium filled with cheering students and staff.
They had all been waiting for her, and her shocked expression was evidence she had no idea what was coming.
Miller knew this would be her last day as a staff member at the high school. Last summer’s diagnosis of bile duct cancer had forced her decision to retire.
What she didn’t know was that a wish — shared by her and her husband, David, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2013 — would be granted at a school-wide assembly in her honor. (Read more)