June 22, 1994
Servine the community through cultural diversity.
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Students Earn College Scholarships
Scholarship winners Shanique Yeung (left) of Benson High School and Eliza Capuia of Jefferson High.
Three area students have received
Howard Vollum Scholarships to at
tend college and pursue careers in
math, engineering or science.
The recipients are active in the
Portland Mathematics, Engineering,
Science Achievement program. Port
land MESA, a program of Portland
State University’s School of Engi
neering and Applied Science, encour
ages area middle and high school
students from all ethnic backgrounds
to pursue advanced education in math,
engineering or science through a se-
riesof workshops, field trips and schol
arship opportunities.
This year’s Vollum Scholarship
winners are Shanique Young of
Benson High School, Eliza Capuia of
Jefferson High School and Aaron
Marsh of Grant High School. They
received their scholarships at MES A ’s
9th Annual Awards Ceremony, held
at PSU June 9.
Each of the one-year scholar
ships is for $2,000 and is renewable.
Scholarships funds are provided by a
special grant from Tektronix, Inc.
Young, 18, will attend the Uni
versity of Portland next fall. She will
pursue a chemistry degree and hopes
to become an environmental chemist
or engineer. Young is the daughter of
Orlando and Everline Young, 637
N.E. Eighth Ave., Portland.
Capuia, 20, will pursue a career
in medicine and medical lab work,
and will attend PSU this fall. She is
the daughter of Estevao and Julieta
Capuia of 5037 N.E. 9th Ave., Port
land.
M arsh, 18, is h ead in g to
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore,
Penn., this August. He plans to study
Minority Students Graduate To Successful Careers
A nine-year program encourag M id d le S c h o o l, B en so n H igh
ing minorities to enter engineering, S ch o o l, 1990), a b io lo g y /p re -
math and science careers is paying m ed icin e m ajo r from Jackson
off, and it has four successful college State; and B osco K ante (G rant
graduates to prove it. Four Howard High School, 1989), who gradu
Vollum Scholarship recipients who ated with a degree in m echanical
c o m p leted the P o rtlan d M ath engineering from the U niversity
e m a tic s, E n g in e e rin g , S cien ce o f Southern C alifornia.
T his m onth, Blum e starts her
A chievem ent (M ESA ) program
several years ago w hile in high new jo b as a com puter softw are
school recently g raduated from engineer with H ew lett-P ackard’s
fo u r-y ear univ ersities to em bark C om puter Integrated M anufactur
on careers in en g in eerin g co m ing D ivision plant in V ancouver.
pu ter science, m edicine and in C legg w ill w ork at Intel C orp, in
H illsboro. Benjam in, who entered
dustrial technology.
The g rad u ates are Y olanda the MES A program in 1985, plans
B lu m e (B e n so n H ig h s c h o o l, to attend m edical school eventu
1 9 8 8 ) w h o g r a d u a te d fro m ally. K ante, a tw o-year M ESA
H ow ard U niversity in W ashing p a rtic ip a n t, plans to p u rsu e a
ton, D .C. w ith a m ajor in com m aster’s degree in business ad
p u te r s y s te m s e n g i n e e r i n g ; m inistration in a few years, but
P am ela C legg (W h itaker M iddle for now h e’ll keep busy by operat
School, Jefferson H igh School, ing his ow n m usic production
1990) who earned a degree in business in Los A ngeles.
MESA, a program of Portland
industrial technology from Jack-
State
University’s School of Engi
son S tate U n iv ersity , Jackson,
neering
and Appl ied Science, encour-
M iss.; A isa B enjam in (Tubm an
in the sciences and in international
relations. Marsh, the son of Bill and
Corliss Marsh, of 2814 N.E. 40th
Ave., has a variety of interests incl ud-
ing aviation, military history and the
ater arts. He currently is a 100-hour
private pilot.
Also at the June 9 MES A awards
ceremony, 20-year-old Mai Trang of
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Portland received a $ 1,000 Cheveron
Scholarship. Trang recently received
a two-year associate degree in science
from Portland Community College.
She plans to attend Oregon State
University this fall to pursue a degree
in industrial engineering. She is the
daughter of Mai Chanh and Vicki
Nott, 1235 SJE. 15th Ave., Portland.
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Diversity. We promote a drug-free workplace.
Portland MESA college grads and former scholorship winners: (L to
R) Alisa Benjamin; Yolanda Blume; Pamela Clegg; Bosco Kante
ages area middle and high school
students from all ethnic backgrounds
to pursue advanced education in math
or science through after-school and
weekend workshops, field trips and
projects. More than 95 percent of
MESA graduates have gone on to a
college or a university and more than
60 percent are pursing careers in com
puter engineering.
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