January 25, 1999

Media Contact: Kate Callen at (619) 534-0361 or kcallen@ucsd.edu

UCSD’S FEB. 9 "HEARTS & SCHOLARS" LUNCHEON HONORS SUPPORTERS

University of California, San Diego Chancellor Robert C. Dynes and the UCSD Undergraduate Scholarship Council will host a "Hearts and Scholars Luncheon" to honor scholarship supporters and their student beneficiaries on Feb. 9 at 12 noon at the Price Center Ballroom on the UCSD campus.

Entertainment at the luncheon will feature singer/songwriter Valerie Formost and the student winner of the Rose Formost Memorial Scholarship in Music. Valerie Formost, a resident of Rancho Santa Fe, has performed with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra and has twice been an award recipient at the American Songwriting Festival.

At the luncheon, Chancellor Dynes will announce UCSD’s "Scholarships for the New Millennium" fund-raising drive. To ensure that the best and brightest students can afford to attend UCSD in the 21st Century, the drive will have two goals:

• To raise $5 million in undergraduate scholarship endowment funds by 2003, and

• To increase annual scholarship awards from private sources to $1 million by 2000.

For more information about the "Hearts and Scholars Luncheon," please contact the Office of Student Affairs Development at 534-0263.