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San Bruno Announces 2018 Foundation Scholarship Winners
Once again the San Bruno Community Foundation introduced their current (2018) winners and heard from a couple of previous winners.
Article Source: San Bruno Community Foundation - CA
2018 Crestmoor Neighborhood Memorial Scholars Announced
At its June 6, 2018 meeting, the San Bruno Community Foundation Board of Directors honored the 2018 recipients of the Crestmoor Neighborhood Memorial Scholarship, preceded by an earlier reception for them and their families.
Established in 2016, the San Bruno Community Foundation Crestmoor Memorial Scholarship program provides multi-year college scholarship awards to outstanding San Bruno high school and community college students who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the San Bruno community. Receiving scholarships totaling $120,000, the 2018 Crestmoor Neighborhood Memorial Scholars, whose bios are below, are:
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Muriel Butler (Colorado State University),
Marjourie Quintanilla (San Jose State University),
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Vincent Ramsey (UC Berkeley),
Lauren Meyer (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo),
Kiersten Blair (Skyline College),
Lauren Valles (UCLA),
Martha Marquez Ramirez (UC Berkeley),
Julia Cordero (University Southern California), and
Max Stines (Skyline College).
ABOVE: Winners in attendance
ABOVE: Lauren Valles and
ABOVE: Vincent Ramsey addressed the Board on behalf of the group.
In attendance at the ceremony were scholars from the Classes of 2016 and 2017 represented with remarks by Alejandra Andrade.
SBCF Board Members Frank Hedley and Patricia Bohm, presented the awards along with Commendations from Supervisor Dave Pine, while President Nancy Kraus shared with the audience about each scholar and their career goals. Directors John McGlothlin and Tim Ross were able to attend award ceremonies at several of the schools from which some of the scholars graduated.
In her remarks, President Kraus emphasized that one of the Board’s first major funding decisions when the Foundation was created by the City Council nearly five years ago, was to establish the Crestmoor Neighborhood Memorial Scholarship program to honor San Bruno community members who most directly endured the gas pipeline explosion tragedy in 2010, especially the eight San Bruno residents who lost their lives. “The Crestmoor Memorial Scholarship Program ensures that the events of September 9, 2010 are not forgotten and that the resiliency, teamwork, leadership, and commitment to community in the aftermath of the explosion and fire, are honored in each of the annual recipients of the Foundation’s scholarship, who themselves have, at a young age, volunteered in service to others and a number of whom have faced significant life challenges themselves”, she commented.
In recognizing the scholars, President Kraus commended the scholars on their sense of community service, sharing that the Board hoped they “will never lose sight of how critical it is to the future of their colleges and the communities where they ultimately reside, that they be engaged in making positive contributions to the lives of others”.
To finance the scholarship program, the Foundation is using a portion of the $70 million in restitution funds resulting from the City’s settlement with PG&E.
ABOVE: Mayor Rico E. Medina addressed the winners:
"As Mayor and as a former Student Body President at Capuchino High School, I am very pleased with the work of San Bruno Community Foundation to honor youth, many of them also graduates of Capuchino, who give of themselves at a young age to our community and who now aspire to seek an education that will enable them to contribute even more to society. To the scholars: The spirit of the Foundation’s recognition to honor those who lost life and property in the fire/explosion, lives on now in you and the choices you make going forward. Congratulations to you and thank you to the Board for your investment in these young people who are our hope for the future."
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Robert Riechel
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Source Credit: San Bruno CA Community Foundation
Leslie Hatamiya - Executive Director
lhatamiya-sbcf@sanbruno.ca.gov
Office (650) 763-0775
Web Site: www.sbcf.org
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