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FA Scholarships (June 04 Issue of Foothill News) FA president, Richard Hansen, will announce the 2003-2004 FA scholarship awards at the June 21 Board meeting. Recipients of the $500 awards are Foothill student, Chun Wai Hung, and De Anza student, Nacime Karami. Both Hung and Karami wrote about their personal struggles before finding direction at Foothill-De Anza. Hung, who was born in mainland China where his family still lives, is the first of his family to attend college. Hung has excelled at both De Anza and Foothill, maintaining a 4.0 GPA. While attending De Anza, Hung was President and founder of the De Anza Science and Engineering Association (DASEA). Karami is a single parent and reentry student who decided to pursue a college degree after being laid off from a dot-com company three years ago. Karami has participated in a number of De Anza organizations, including the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, the College Environmental Advisory Group, and the Student Body Senate where she was VP of Student Rights and Services. Karami has applied to UC Berkeley where she hopes to study Environmental Science.
Bill in the Cupertino De Anza College Newspaper
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