Members of the Board of Directors from Texas Colonial Foundation for Youth convened a few days ago in order to select from a group of finalist, twelve scholarship winners.  

Mr. John Saavedra CE, local businessman, Mr. Richard Farias, Director of Tejano Center for Community Concerns, and Mr. Marcello Marini, Director of Programming & Community Affairs at Telemundo-Channel 48 administered scholarship selection for 8 hours electing 10 winners from 230 applicants for 2001. Each scholarship of  $2,500.00 will be given to the scholarship winner’s college or university of their choice. Scholarships will be handed from our finest state and city officials such as: Secretary of State of Texas, Honorable Henry Cuellar and Mayor from the City of Houston, Dr. Lee P. Brown, & State Representative, Rick Noriega to name a few. Secretary of State, Henry Cuellar will also be the ceremony’s keynote speaker. These 10 scholarship winners and also two winners from last year will receive special certificates for all their extraordinary hard work for the past four years. Parents and guardians of these 12 scholarship winners will be mentioned and praised for their wonderful support and encouragement in the lives of these youth. 

The ceremony will take place in the prestigious Omni Hotel on May 11, 2001 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Omni Hotel is located in the galleria area on 4 Riverway with Woodway as the cross street. For more information on this event, please call 713-871-8181 or contact Laura N. Peña at 713-243-7742. Mark your calendar and plan to join the leaders of today give precedence to the leaders of tomorrow.

2001 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

This year’s winners are 12 in total, 10 for this year and 2 previous winners from last year. The idea for last year’s winners is there constant progress and maintaining a 4.0 average in their college or university. With the strong grade point average, Texas Colonial Foundation for Youth is proud to support these hard working college students who are in pursuit of better education and the completion of their degree program.

Last years scholarship winners are Irma Salazar, in her second year is majoring in Business Administration at the University of Houston. Santiago Castillo is majoring in Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. Presenting this year’s Texas Colonial Scholarship Foundation for Youth winners: Deisy Garcia (Raul Yzaguirre School for Success) Major: Engineering, Chantel Aguirre (Raul Yzaguirre School for Success) Major: Bilingual Education, Ana-Elena Hernandez, (DeBakey High School for Health Professions) Major: Speech Therapy, Mared Jimenez (Westfield High School) Double Major: Political Science & International Business, Maria Zapata (Phillies Wheatley High) Major: Law, Veronica Chavez (Barbara Jordan High School) Double Major: Bilingual Studies & Education, Gladys Zovelly Garcia (Milby High School) Major: Business Administration, Rodolfo Salazar (Robert E. Lee High School) Major: Civil Engineer, Dante Garcia (High School for Law Enforcement) Major: Psychiatrist, and Carlos A. Chavez (Stafford High School) Major: Pre-Med Biology.