Houston, TX June 4, 2004
El Paso Honors Largest Class
of Project GRAD Scholars
The El Paso Corporation honored 168 Project GRAD Davis High School students at an awards ceremony and reception on Thursday, May 13, 2004 in the Davis High School Auditorium. It is the largest number of potential scholarship recipients ever recognized since the El Paso Corporation began participating in the Davis High School Scholarship Program and nearly doubles the total number of recipients since the beginning of the program started by Tenneco, Inc. in 1992. A total of 1,332 Davis High School graduates have attended college using the El Paso Corporation/Davis High School Scholarship Program.
The El Paso Scholarship Program at Davis High School provides financial assistance toward a college education to eligible seniors. Each qualifying student is awarded $1,000 annually for a total of four years. Some of the colleges and universities El Paso Scholars currently attend are: Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, University of Houston – Downtown, University of Houston, University of Texas, and the University of Virginia.
To earn a scholarship, each student must enter Jefferson Davis High School during the ninth grade, and after being made aware of the scholarship requirements by the staff at Davis High School, sign an agreement to work toward a scholarship at graduation, take the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT), maintain a grade point averages of at least 2.5 (4.0 scale), successfully complete all of their required coursework, attend at least two Project GRAD summer institutes, and graduate from Davis High School in four years or less.
Project GRAD Houston is a nonprofit, comprehensive community-collaborative, school program that serves more than 48,000 students in 73 public schools in H.I.S.D. Founded by Jim Ketelsen, former chief executive officer of Tenneco, Inc., the scholarship program was first awarded to students in Davis High School in 1992 and has evolved into a school reform program with a proven track record of increasing graduation rates and improving academic success. For more information on Project GRAD Houston, please visit www.projectgradhouston.org
Project GRAD currently serves 133,000 students nationally in 217 schools in Akron, Atlanta, Brownsville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Kenai Peninsula, Knoxville, Lorain, Los Angeles, Newark, and Roosevelt, New York.
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