New Wells Fargo Branch Opens with Diversity Mural, School Donation

SOUTH BAY, CA -- Wells Fargo celebrated the grand opening of a new location in Palo Alto, and presented a $10,000 grant to a local prep school during a Monday, Feb. 6 ceremony at the new bank branch.

Also during the event, the bank unveiled a community mural located inside the branch that depicts the history and legacy of Palo Alto and celebrating diversity. The mural includes historical images of the city and features images of Amelia Earhart at Palo Alto Airport in the 1920s, Helen Gertrude Dominguez, the first Chicana/Mexicana to graduate from Stanford, Professor Emeritus James L. Gibbs, Jr., the first tenured African-American professor at Stanford and Professor Yamato Ichihashi, one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States.

The grant funding was presented to Palo Alto-based Eastside College Preparatory School, which focuses on helping students historically underrepresented in higher education. Wells Fargo says the funding will support a five-week summer program to help first-generation college-bound students improve their academic skills. To date, the school says that 100 percent of its graduates have been admitted to four-year colleges.

The new bank branch is located at 2754 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

Images via Wells Fargo Bank