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Gayman Endowment Scholarship
Recipients (2009)
The San Mateo Branch of AAUW is pleased to announce that the Gayman Endowment Scholarships for 2009 have been awarded to three San Mateo County Community College District students. Each scholarship, for $2000, was awarded to a deserving student transferring to a four- year university in the fall of 2008. These students were honored at a luncheon at the Peninsula Regent on May 9, 2009.
- Kahlil Dabeet , is a student at Skyline College. After his family emigrated from Jordan to the United States in 2004, he has studied diligently, beginning at first as a part-time student and then a full-time student. He was also hired as a peer tutor for physics and math. He is pursuing a degree in civil engineering and will continue his studies this fall at San Francisco State.
- Jessica Talley Sagot, graduated form Burlingame High School and is a re-entry student at the College of San Mateo. She has successfully juggled work, classes, volunteering and being a single parent. She became enamored with the ocean at age 10, and is looking forward to completing a degree in marine biology at UC Santa Cruz where she has been accepted.
- Nancy Yousef, from Canada College, was born in Iran. She waited thirteen years before she was able to emigrate to the U.S. in order to fulfill her lifelong wish of studying to become a nurse. She is a single parent, has been enrolled full time, and worked part time at Canada. She is completing her AS in biology this semester and plans to enter the nursing program at San Francisco State this fall.
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