For ten years, employees of SPC Facilities Planning and Institutional Services have contributed to a scholarship for needy students.  Facility employees include architects, custodians, interior designers, groundskeepers, electricians and more.  Through the Foundation's payroll deduction plan, the scholarship continues to grow.  Danielle Collins, a pre-veterinary medicine student was a recent recipient.  She has a two-year-old daughter and a full time job.  "The scholarship money which is applied to my tuition is a life saver,"  Ms. Collins said.

Lunique Aquil starts her day at 5:00 a.m. seeing to the needs of her children.  After a day of school and work she picks up her daughter Ashley four-years-old and her triplet daughters Aaliyah, Akilah and Aminah, age two, from pre-school then cleans, cooks and plays with the girls.  After homework she goes to sleep between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.  Aquil said, "I need to get a good paying job.  I need to set a good example."  She received the Robert and Mildred Baynard Ethics in Business Scholarship and met scholarship donors at the Fourth Annual Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon.  Ms. Aquil said it was "great meeting them and talking with them and finding out where they came from in their lives and how they're giving back."

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