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(Mesquite, TX) – The recipient of the Lee Caropresi Guitar Scholarship for this year is Eastfield College student Daniel Price of Mesquite.
Since he began taking classes at Eastfield College in 2005 that time Price has had the distinction of earning many honors, one of which is being a 2007 National Science Foundation Science Talent Expansion Program Scholar.
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| Daniel Price, pictured with Patsy Caropresi, is the recipient of the 2007-08 Lee Caropresi Guitar Scholarship. |
Highly involved on campus, Price serves as the Vice President of Scholarship in the Psi Eta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa and President of the Guitar Studies Club. He has also participated in the Student Programs and Resources Student Leadership Academy and is a Student Government member. Not only is Price a Science Club member, he has also been a host for its Wednesday Lecture Series.
Price plans to transfer to the University of Texas - Dallas, where he will earn a Bachelor of Arts & Humanities Degree in Classical Guitar.
Lee Caropresi studied under Dr. Enric Madriguera, long time professor of Guitar Studies at Eastfield College, in 1979 and was part of a group that studied abroad in Spain. Caropresi served as the Director of Music at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Dallas and played in a band called “The Touch.”
“As a former Eastfield student and as a guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, Lee valued education and would be pleased to know these students were assisted in their educational endeavors,” said Patsy Caropresi, widow of Lee. “We want to encourage the recipients to continue their educations and develop their musical talents. My family and I were delighted to award scholarships to these students in my husband's memory.”
For more information, contact Eastfield’s Financial Aid Office at 972-860-7188 or the Dallas County Community College District Foundation at 972-860-2149.
The gift will be housed in the Dallas County Community College District Foundation, which administers private funds for student scholarships offered through DCCCD. To be eligible, the recipient must: fill out an application; have a 2.5 or better GPA; be enrolled in either: Guitar Ensemble, Guitar Private lesson or Guitar Literature classes; and must be an Eastfield student. The scholarship fund has awarded nine scholarships since 2004.
Eastfield College, one of the seven Dallas County Community Colleges, is located at 3737 Motley Drive in Mesquite, just north of I-30.
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