Cordoba Corporation Executive, Randall D. Martinez Awards the 2011 Martinez Family Scholarship to Bassett High School Graduating Senior, Mayra Rivera

LA PUENTE, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Cordoba’s Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Randall D. Martinez, on behalf of the Martinez Family Scholarship, has awarded his family’s annual scholarship to Bassett High School student Mayra Rivera. Rivera will be studying psychology at UC Berkeley this fall.

“a determined and persistent person who has shown to participate and give of herself for the benefit of others. She has an outgoing personality and a contagious smile that lights up a room, and she demonstrates initiative and has a seriousness of purpose.”

On Wednesday, June 15, Martinez visited Mayra Rivera and Bassett High School’s counselor Hector Armas to present the award and impart a few words of advice to the aspiring PhD candidate. Counselor Armas considers Rivera “a determined and persistent person who has shown to participate and give of herself for the benefit of others. She has an outgoing personality and a contagious smile that lights up a room, and she demonstrates initiative and has a seriousness of purpose.”

Rivera maintains a very impressive GPA (while taking many challenging AP classes in English, calculus, Spanish literature, U.S. history, and government/economics), ranking her near the top in a class of over 200 graduating seniors at Bassett High School. She also lettered in two varsity sports.

Martinez, along with his six siblings, was born and raised in La Puente, and attended Bassett Unified School District (BUSD) schools throughout his K-12 education. In 1998, Martinez and his sister Ingrid (a pediatrician based in San Diego) decided to establish the scholarship in their family’s name to assist those outstanding students from their alma mater who show the ability and desire to succeed in higher education. The Martinez Family Scholarship has been doing just that, having awarded over $10,000 since the scholarship’s inception.

A perpetual scholarship plaque is displayed in the Bassett High School Principal’s office which lists the names of every scholarship recipient. “It is a real privilege for my sister and I to be able to do this,” said Martinez. “Mayra is a great representative of the values and achievement that we look for in our scholarship recipients, and she is a terrific representative of the 2011 graduating class that is sending 64 students to major 4-year universities, including four to UC Berkeley and one to USC.”

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Martinez’s dedication to making a difference in his own community coincides with Cordoba’s message of making a difference in the communities we work in: providing the means for students in the La Puente community to achieve their academic dreams, whether it’s building a new school facility or providing financial assistance to an outstanding scholar.