October 14, 2004
Costco Scholarship Breakfast raises $2.2 million for minority students
This year’s Costco Scholarship Breakfast raised $2.2 million for underrepresented minority students to attend the UW and Seattle University. About 650 people attended, including Gov. Gary Locke and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.
Breakfast keynote speakers were “The Three Doctors,” three African-American men who made a vow as teenagers growing up in a rough part of Newark, N.J., to stick together through college and medical school and to help one another reach their goals. Today, Sampson Davis is an emergency room physician, Rameck Hunt is an internist and George Jenkins is a dentist. They also formed The Three Doctors Foundation, which provides positive role models for inner-city youth and families across the nation.
“You’ve turned my lifelong dream into a reality,” said scholarship recipient Elizabeth Carbajal. A sociology and interdisciplinary visual art major at the UW, Carbajal was one of the student speakers at the breakfast.
Since its inception in 2000, the Costco Scholarship Fund has raised more than $8 million and provided more than 650 scholarships. The Costco Scholarship Fund was created by Costco President and CEO Jim Sinegal and Costco Chairman of the Board Jeff Brotman.
“Our country’s social and economic health depends upon giving all students an opportunity to come to college, to utilize the skills that they have developed and to get themselves to the same starting line that everybody else is at in this society,” Brotman said.
Details about the Costco Scholarship Fund may be found at www.costcoscholarshipfund.org.
