TUCSON – The 26th Annual LULAC Council 1057 Educators Awards & Scholarship Banquet took place Thursday, April 16th at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Tucson – Reid Park. Retired Pima County Supervisor Dan Eckstrom and LULAC District 3 Director, Javier Herrera were the Master of Ceremonies for the Banquet.
With 500 guests in attendance, 8 outstanding community leaders were recognized for bettering the lives of youth through their investments in the community and in education.
This year’s honorees are for LULAC’s Presidential Citation Award included:
Frances Erunez (Los Jarritos)
Alma Gallardo (Arizona Bilingual Magazine)
Lee Lambert (Pima Community College)
Saturnino “Curly” Santa Cruz (Teacher/Coach)
John C. Scott (Radio Personality)
Also, honored were Dr. Vicki Balentine (Lifelong Educator), Hon. Clarence Dupnik (Sheriff of Pima County County), and Bishop Gerald Kicanas (Diocese of Tucson) with the Soldado de Cuero Lifetime Achievement Award for their ten or more years of leadership and service to our community.
In addition to these exception honorees, 4 students were each awarded with $1000 scholarships for their dedication and commitment in achieving their personal and academic goals. All proceeds raised at the Banquet will go on to support LULAC Council 1057’s effort to send students to the National LULAC Washington National Youth Leadership Seminar and to provide further scholarships in coordination with LULAC’s National Scholarship Foundation. For the past 26 years, the League of United Latin American Citizens Council #1057 has been actively involved with the community in providing educational assistance to the youth.
Under the leadership of LULAC Council #1057 has had over 115,000 6th through 12th graders involved in the Annual LULAC Youth Leadership Conference, which has received national recognition from former President Bill Clinton, former First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush, the National Latino Children’s Institute, the City of Tucson, the Metropolitan Education Commission, the NAACP MLK Drum Major Award and by the Tucson Hispanic Coalition.
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