Phuture Phuture Day 2007 | page 3

A tour group poses for a snapshot with visiting dignitaries. More on elected officials and community leaders who showed support by attending Phuture Phoenix Day.

Among the VIP visitors Tuesday was Jessica Doyle, Wisconsin's first lady and an enthusiastic advocate for pre-college efforts like Phuture Phoenix. Here, she signs a t-shirt for a visiting fifth-grader.

Collecting autographs is popular among the participants: A student gets Bruce Shepard's John Hancock.

Wearing vivid Phuture Phoenix t-shirts were state legislators and program fans Sen. Dave Hansen and Rep. Jim Soletski of Green Bay.

College is cool! You can roll down the hillside.

Catching a memory with a college-age "big sister." About 300 student volunteers, many of them first-generation college students themselves, assisted as mentors.

So long from Phuture Phoenix Day, Oct. 9, 2007! The friends here will likely see each other again; the program sends the mentors out to area classrooms for follow-up visits, and also offers "Phuture Phoenix Clubs" for middle schools in subsequent years.