From Deseret News archives:
5 Utahns among ethnic winners
Established in 1999, the program was initially funded by a $1 billion grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and aims to provide an opportunity to go to college for outstanding minority students with significant financial need.
One thousand scholarships, out of around 11,000 applicants, are awarded yearly to black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaskan and Asian/Pacific Islander students with high academic and leadership promise in hopes of increasing representation of those groups in disciplines where they are severely underrepresented.
The program has funded more than 11,000 scholars attending more than 1,300 different colleges and universities since its inception. Utah winners this year include:
Raya Wall
Of American Indian ancestry, she was born and raised in Utah and plays the bass guitar in a community-based Brazilian percussion band Samba Gringa.
She is excited to "establish my own independence" at the all-girls college in Northampton, where she hopes to study English and later enter the medical program.
John Ioane
Aside from earning a high GPA and being an outstanding student, Ioane is also a star athlete in football and track and field, throwing the discus, shot put and javelin. He is also a member of the school's student senate, and his favorite subject is math.
Ioane moved to Utah from American Samoa in 2005 and is the middle child among eight brothers and sisters.
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