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other scholarship recipients will receive $1,000 one-year renewable scholarships,
while seven students are receiving one-year $2,000 Compaq Corp. scholarships.
Lara Manzanares of Escalante High School feeds a baby lamb at the
family's ranch in Tierra Amarilla. Manzanares is receiving a $2,500-a-year
silver scholarship through the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund.
"The Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund continues to deliver on
its promise to help deserving students in the area to get a great education
and a great summer job experience at the Laboratory, and, at the same time,
help the Laboratory prepare a work force for tomorrow," said Al Sattelberger,
Chemistry ( C ) Division director and president of the Laboratory Foundation
board of directors.
Students receiving $1,000 college scholarships and the school they currently
attend are as follows: Maria Alvarado of Santa Cruz, N.M. now attending
the University of Denver; Gabriel Brown of McCurdy High School; Elena
Gonzales and Slany Shine of Jemez Valley High School; Jennifer Hauge and
Zachary Ortiz of St. Michael's High School; Steven Honig, Milo Lin, Austin
Minnich and William Nichols of Los Alamos High School; Gina La Cerva and
Michael Lantz of Santa Fe Preparatory School; Adam Manzanares of Española
Valley High School; Jennifer Padilla of New Mexico State University; Jaime
Peterson of University of California, Berkeley; Stephanie Redman of Pojoaque
High School; Joaquin Ruiz of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Martin
Segura and Diego Lucero of Pecos High School; Keith Summers of Las Vegas
Robertson High School; Gregory Trujillo of Westwood College of Technology;
Eli Van Cleve of Carnegie Mellon University; Nicole Willburn of Taos High
School; Joshua Willerton of Kettering University; Jennifer Bartels of
Santa Fe High School; Jeremy Barton of Mesa Vista High School; Jacqueline
Muller of Pojoaque High School; Jose B. A. Gallegos of Questa High School;
Brandon Whitehead of Capital High School in Santa Fe; and Marcos Medina
of Mora High School.
Diego Lucero of Pecos High School sells newspapers from a high-volume
location: Interstate 25 and the Glorieta-Pecos offramp. Lucero is receving
a $1,000 renewable scholarship through the scholarship program. Photos
by Tony Fox, Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation
The seven, $2,000 Compaq Corp. scholarship recipients are Arlen Beers-Green,
a home-school student in Santa Fe, Victoria Cruz of Mora High School,
Triston McDonald of Cuba High School, Monica Michelotti of Los Alamos
High School, Ike Okoro of Las Vegas Robertson High School, Rachel Spears
of Taos High School and Lindsay Vasquez-Tator of Dulce High School.
This year, five students also will receive scholarships through the Endowed
Leadership Scholarship Fund created in 2000 by Laboratory Director John
Browne and his wife, Marti. This fund was created to fund scholarship opportunities
for Northern New Mexico students with significant financial need. These
students also have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities and achievements
in their home, school and community.
The Endowed Leadership Scholarship Fund recipients are: Jacqueline Muller
of Pojoaque High; Jose B. A. Gallegos of Questa High School; Brandon Whitehead
of Capital High School; Marcos Medina of Mora High School; and Rachel
Spears of Taos High School.
Eli Van Cleve and Jaime Peterson are repeat scholarship recipients.
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Lab workers' scholarship program now in fifth year
The Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund allows Laboratory employees
and subcontract personnel to donate to a fund that awards college scholarships
to Northern New Mexico area students. Lab workers are receiving pledge
forms at their office mail stops and have until May 31 to return completed
forms to the nonprofit Laboratory Foundation offices in Santa Fe. Remittance
envelopes will be included with pledge forms.
Laboratory Director John Browne will issue an all-employee memo this
week on the 2002 Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund campaign.
Debbi Wersonick of the Community Relations (CRO) Office and coordinator
of employee and corporate giving programs, said the Los Alamos Employees'
Scholarship Fund drive will make a direct appeal to Lab workers by going
out to various technical areas to talk about the scholarship program and
to accept completed pledge cards.
Lab workers who are members of the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship
Fund advisory board will be at various Laboratory technical areas throughout
the campaign to accept completed pledge forms.
From 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday in May volunteers will
be at the Otowi Building at Technical Area 3. And once a week through
the end of May, volunteers also will be accepting completed pledge forms
at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center at TA-53, at TA-55 and at S-Site.
"Employees at Los Alamos have shown their willingness to invest
in the future of Northern New Mexico and the Laboratory by contributing
to this scholarship fund, and I am confident that this year will be no
exception," Bob Romero of Actinide Chemistry Research and Development
(NMT-11) and chair of the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund Advisory
Board said.
Wersonick said Laboratory personnel who pledge or make a donation to
the scholarship fund will receive a Laboratory badge holder and lanyard.
Since the program's inception, University of California Laboratory employees
and subcontract personnel contributed more than $425,000 in donations
or pledges to the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund giving campaign.
And 156 high school seniors or college undergraduates have received scholarships
through the fund.
Through payroll deduction, employees may donate between $1 and $10 or
more each paycheck, and the contributions to the scholarship fund are
tax deductible. The $1 to $10 per pay period range of suggested donations
was developed to make it easier for all Lab employees to participate.
Employees also can make a one-time donation. Personal checks can be written
to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.
The scholarship fund is managed by the Laboratory and the not-for-profit
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, Wersonick said.
The Laboratory Foundation is a philanthropic grant-giving entity for
the Lab created in 1997. It supports a range of national and community
not-for-profit organizations.
For more information on the scholarship fund, write to tfox@lanlfoundation.org
by electronic mail.
--Steve Sandoval
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Among
the scholarship recipients are Gretchen Ryan of McCurdy High School in Española.
Ryan will receive a four-year, $10,000-a-year platinum scholarship.