(Corpus Christi, TX) College-bound students from Driscoll Children's Hospital’s Hematology and Oncology Clinic are being awarded scholarships to help finance their continuing education. Six Marcia K. Wilcox Scholarships, totaling $6,500, awarded to students for the upcoming year.

Marcia K. Wilcox began working as a volunteer at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in 1967. She was a presence in the hospital for more than twenty –two years until a few days before her death form cancer in March 1990. The Hospital’s Auxiliary Board formed a scholarship fund in her name awarding the first scholarship in July 1992. Donations, along with a percentage of the hospital Gift Shop Christmas Card sales, have allowed present and former cancer patients of Driscoll to be college scholarship recipients.

Marcia K. Wilcox 2004-2005 Scholarship recipients include:

• Frank De Luna, age 20
  Frank graduated from Flour Bluff High School and has been attending Del Mar College.
  
• Kasey Fitch, age 18
  Kasey is a graduated from A.C. Jones High School in Beeville, Texas.
  
• Brittany Berlanga, age 19
  Brittany is a graduated from Mary Carroll High School.
  
• Melissa Briseno, age 23
  Melissa graduated from W. B. Ray High School and has received the scholarship for several years.
  
• Jacoba van Heugten, age 21
  Jacoba graduated from W.B. Ray High School.
  
• Carlos Solis, age 20
  Carlos graduated from Foy H. Moody High School.

Each year, Driscoll’s Hematology and Oncology Department supplies a list of eligible students to the Driscoll Children's Hospital’s Auxiliary Board’s Scholarship Committee. These students are currently or have been in the past treated for cancer or other blood disorders, and will be attending college the following Fall. After filling out applications, which outline G.P.A., extra-curricular activities and future goals, students participate in individual interviews. Scholarships are based on G.P.A. and need, as well as other scholarships the student is receiving.

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

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