Meet the 2008-2009 UTSA Student Alumni Scholars!

Whitney Boepple
Scholarship Benefactors: Ray and Ingrid Faris '83

Classification:  Freshman - first year scholarship recipient
Major: Nursing
High School: Ganado High School, Ganado, Texas
Honors/Awards: Senior Class President, National Honor Society President, Yearbook Editor, Principal's Leadership Award, Daughter of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award, The American Legion School Award, District 28-AA One Act Play Best Actress Award-Zone and District Competition, District 28-AA One Act Play All Star Cast.
Community Service: Relay for Life, Mission Team member, RYLA Participant, Worship Team Music Ministry, Teen Worship Music Ministry, Life Teen Core Team Member, Summer Bible School leader.

Future Plans: To become a nurse-practioner specializing in labor and delivery.

"My lifetime goal is to work in the medical field. What we are is God's gift to us; what we make of ourselves is our gift to God."
 

Joanna Breach
Scholarship Benefactor: Security Service Federal Credit Union

Classification: Senior - second year scholarship recipient
Major: Interdisciplinary Studies/EC-4 Generalist Teacher Certification
Honors/Awards: UTSA President’s List
Community Service: Parent Child Inc. and Boy Scouts of America, Somerset Troop 251

Future Plans: To become a teacher

“You have reinforced one of the many things I have learned: hard work and dedication not only achieve the desired results, but also help open the doors of opportunity. This is a lesson my own children have observed and one I hope to inspire in my own students when I achieve my goal of becoming a teacher.”
 

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Future Plans: A career in the international business field

“It is better to win as a team than be a leader and lose.”
 

Classification: Junior - second year scholarship recipient
Major: Marketing
Community Service: Students for the Environment, Catholic Student
Association
Employment: UTSA Campus Recreation

Future Plans: MBA degree and a career in marketing, representing a major automotive business

 “I know my journey of going through college is, as my uncle said, ‘the most important years of my life.’”
 

Classification: Junior, UTSA Honors College - second year scholarship
recipient
Major/Minor: History/Secondary Education
Honors/Awards: Sophomore Honor Society, Honors Alliance, Alpha Chi National Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, UTSA President’s List, Dean’s List, Collegiate All-American Scholar Award
Community Service: Volunteer, American Cancer Society, Methodist Hospital

Future Plans: Teaching history on the secondary education level

“I hope to become a history teacher and try to instill the same passion for knowledge and learning into future students. My parents are both educators and have raised me with a love for learning.”

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