From today's news but worth repeating. Here is a young man that knows the importance of hard work and ambition. He did things the hard way and it paid off. Bravo!--Scandall
A success story
When a person from humble beginnings gets ahead, it is a real success story, and one such story was carried in the weekend papers. Young Kelvin Santos works as a packer at the Nacional Supermarket in Santiago. In his free time, he studies Systems and Computer Engineering at the prestigious PUCMM. He pays for his own studies now that his government scholarship has run out. He will graduate on Saturday. On Friday, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, the university rector, awarded the soon-to-be graduate his graduation ring at a small ceremony at the Cuesta Bookstore in the supermarket. Professor Pragmacio Marichal, president of the Computers for Development Foundation awarded the student a plaque. The only son of a single mother, the student worked his way through the LaSalle brothers Hermanos Miguel School, and graduated from the New York Center. He had to leave his job as a teacher at the New Dawn Christian School because it interfered with his classwork. Santos earned his money from tips received for his work as a supermarket.
As proof that hard work doesn't go unrewarded, today's El Caribe reports that Kelvin Santos received a scholarship from the Ministry of Youth in order to obtain his advanced degree at the US university of his choice. Minister for Youth, Manuel Crespo, also gave the young man his first personal computer, a brand new Dell. With obvious admiration for the student, Crespo described Santos's academic success as "a real conquest."
A success story
When a person from humble beginnings gets ahead, it is a real success story, and one such story was carried in the weekend papers. Young Kelvin Santos works as a packer at the Nacional Supermarket in Santiago. In his free time, he studies Systems and Computer Engineering at the prestigious PUCMM. He pays for his own studies now that his government scholarship has run out. He will graduate on Saturday. On Friday, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, the university rector, awarded the soon-to-be graduate his graduation ring at a small ceremony at the Cuesta Bookstore in the supermarket. Professor Pragmacio Marichal, president of the Computers for Development Foundation awarded the student a plaque. The only son of a single mother, the student worked his way through the LaSalle brothers Hermanos Miguel School, and graduated from the New York Center. He had to leave his job as a teacher at the New Dawn Christian School because it interfered with his classwork. Santos earned his money from tips received for his work as a supermarket.
As proof that hard work doesn't go unrewarded, today's El Caribe reports that Kelvin Santos received a scholarship from the Ministry of Youth in order to obtain his advanced degree at the US university of his choice. Minister for Youth, Manuel Crespo, also gave the young man his first personal computer, a brand new Dell. With obvious admiration for the student, Crespo described Santos's academic success as "a real conquest."