Four Students Awarded More Than $30,000 in Scholarships Surprise Checks Presented to Recipients on<I> The Montel Williams Show</I>

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April 1, 1999
Four Students Awarded More Than $30,000 in Scholarships
Surprise Checks Presented to Recipients on The Montel Williams Show

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Alice Newcomb-Doyle (718) 951-5882 Brooklyn, NY - When four Brooklyn College students were picked up in a sleek black limousine and whisked off to The Montel Williams Show in midtown Manhattan, they thought they were going to be part of a panel of young people who excel in either business or academia.

They were in for a big surprise.

Instead, they were each handed a giant check for thousands of dollars. The money was awarded to them through the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc., which raises funds to encourage and promote the academic purposes of Brooklyn College and the educational welfare of its students. To be eligible for the scholarships these four received, a student must be either a freshman or sophomore and maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.

     Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarships were awarded to:
     Rebecca Berrios, freshman from Brooklyn, $12,000;
     Avi Z. Rosenberg, sophomore from Brooklyn, Dean's List student, $8,000; and
     Mitchelle Johnson, freshman from Brooklyn, $8,000.

A Starr International Student Scholarship, intended for an international student who is the first generation in his or her family to attend college, was awarded to Janice Lee, a sophomore, and Dean's List student from Queens, who received $6,000.

The money will be deposited toward future tuition bills at Brooklyn College.

"Through the work of the Foundation, we are offering scholarships that attract the best and brightest of New York's students to Brooklyn College," said President Vernon E. Lattin. "We are creating an endowment that ensures that our talented students will have the same opportunities as our distinguished alumni had."

The Montel Williams Show segment aired on Wednesday, March 31, at 2 p.m.
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