LET THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE BEGIN!
AS DRISCOLL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL’S AUXILIARY CELEBRATES ANOTHER GROUP OF STUDENTS HEADING OFF TO COLLEGE

Students from throughout South Texas will receive scholarships; including Clara Driscoll Spirit Scholarship, James A. Duff “Have a Heart” Memorial Scholarship
and Marcia K. Wilcox memorial Scholarship

2007 Driscoll Children’s Hospital Scholarship Presentation Reception
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 l 6:30pm
Driscoll Children’s Hospital-Auditorium
(Interview opportunities with scholarship recipients)

(Corpus Christi, TX) DCH Auxiliary invites the community to join them as they celebrate the lives and success of local students. The students being awarded scholarship have been an integral part of Driscoll Children’s Hospital either as a patient or a volunteer or both. So, on Tuesday, May 22nd at 6:30 pm they will be celebrated for all there hard work.
Clara Driscoll Spirit Scholarship is awarded to seniors who have worked as a Volunteen for the volunteers of DCH Auxiliary. They will each receive a $1000 scholarship for their volunteer work at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. This year’s recipients include:

• Jill Bernhard
• Lutvina Montemayor
• Monzeratt Silgero
• Allison Fang
• Brittany Rioth
• Karthik Gurumurthy
• Biyanka Patel
• Ashish Shah

The Dr. James A. Duff “Have a Heart” Memorial Scholarships go to Cardiology patients of Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Recipients receive $1,000 scholarship per semester for four years. This year’s scholarship recipients include:

• Krista Marie Vidaurri
• Hector A. Caballero

Each year DCH Auxiliary raises money from the sales of Patient Art Projects including: Holiday Cards, T-Shirts and CD’s. The sale of these products funds the Marci K. Wilcox Memorial Scholarship Fund that was set up to provide scholarship for Driscoll Children’s Hospital Oncology patients. Each year patients are chosen to receive $500 per semester for four years. This year’s recipients include:

• Matthew Ryan Beveridge
• Kyle Randall Bright
• Kelsie McCain
• Aleyda Molina
• Stephanie Lynn Pena

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

www.driscollchildrens.org

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