Hilda Rodriguez
For immediate release — July 31, 2009
(DALLAS) — Student leaders from the Dallas County Community College District are reaching out to their schools and communities, helping hearing-impaired youngsters; providing musical comfort to the terminally ill; teaching responsibility through karate; mentoring a younger sister so that she will stay in school; and providing thousands of hours of community service. Those students are role models, and they also inspire other students, as well DCCCD faculty, staff and administrators who serve them.
Eight high school and college students from throughout the Dallas metroplex have been named 2009-2010 LeCroy Scholarship recipients by the DCCCD Foundation for their outstanding leadership and academic achievements. The program honors DCCCD’s former chancellor, Dr. R. Jan LeCroy, who served in that capacity from 1981 to 1988. Each LeCroy Scholar receives up to $4,000 ($1,000 per semester, with a maximum of four semesters) to attend any of DCCCD’s seven colleges: Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, Eastfield, El Centro, Mountain View, North Lake or Richland.
The LeCroy Scholars fund was made possible by a grant established in 1988 by Mike A. Myers and the Mike Myers Foundation. A longtime Dallas business and civic leader, he provided funds to recognize LeCroy’s leadership; the program was the first major student recognition and incentive scholarship created for DCCCD. Myers currently is chairman and president of the Myers Financial Corporation.