On November 14, Verizon’s Director of External Affairs Samuel Delgado presented Verizon scholarships to 17 students enrolled in the new “Puerta al Futuro,” Gateway to the Future program, Metropolitan Campus. He was joined by Dean Kenneth Vehrkens, New College (Metro/Flor), and Deborah Gonzalez, the director of the program (Metro), as well as family members and friends of the recipients.

The adult students were asked to write an essay on the value of education and this program in their life. Financial need was also a criterion for this scholarship. Recipients come from the New Jersey communities of Bergenfield, Bernardsville, Bloomfield, Dover, Elizabeth, Englewood, Morristown, North Arlington, Passaic, Paterson, Prospect Park, Tenafly, West New York and Wharton, as well as New York, N.Y., and Richmond Hill, N.Y.

Gonzalez said, “It is so important for our students to know the corporate community supports their efforts. One of the goals of the program is to prepare these students to take a leadership role in business, and we thank Verizon for its involvement.”

At a reception following the scholarship presentations, Samuel Delgado, right, director of external affairs, Verizon, talks with Lisetty Nigrinis, left, assistant to the director of global partnerships (Metro), and Deborah Gonzalez, center, director, Gateway to the Future. “Puerta al Futuro,” program (Metro).

November 2003

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College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

Metro =
Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, N.J.

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