** Please visit our website: http://www.africanassociation.org ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE First Annual Professor Roberto G. Sanchez Award Centro Hispano of Dane County, in collaboration with the Madison Community Foundation, announces the establishment of the First Annual Professor Roberto G. Sanchez Award. The award honors the values of academic excellence and Latino heritage in general. Professor Sanchez is the recipient of the first annual award named in his honor. The Award will be presented at Centro Hispano’s 15th Annual Dinner on Friday, October 22, 2004. Professor Sanchez is highly regarded for his long and successful career teaching Spanish literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After retirement he devoted most of the last two decades to community volunteer work in the Madison area. In 1999 Professor Sanchez established a Madison Community Foundation endowment to forever benefit Madison’s Latino public school students. This year the first Sanchez scholar graduated from high school and is enrolled in Beloit College, where she is currently a freshman. To date a total of eleven scholars are enrolled in Madison high schools. Upon learning of being the Award’s first recipient, Professor Sanchez said: “I accept it with humility and gratitude … The award is an invitation and a challenge to all who believe in the future and promise of young Hispanics.” Inspired by this noble challenge, Centro Hispano’s Director, Peter Munoz, and his wife Pamela Munoz, made a personal commitment to contribute $10,000 as seed money to start an endowment for Centro Hispano. Munoz said: “Centro will need to play even a more significant role in the future to ensure the success of our growing community. An endowment provides assurance that resources will forever be available to this wonderful organization.” Pamela Munoz said: “Professor Sanchez has been an outstanding role model and profound source of inspiration for Peter and me. We hope that others will be inspired as well and will consider contributing to this endowment.” The Madison Community Foundation will hold the endowment. CONTACT: Victor Villacrez, President, Board of Directors Centro Hispano of Dane County Tel. 608-658-6588 FAX 608-255-2975 HYPERLINK "mailto:[log in to unmask]"[log in to unmask] ### _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, visit: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/aam.html AAM Website: http://www.africanassociation.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------