FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 27, 2002
CONTACT: Cynthia Villafranco, Palo Alto College Public Information Officer
cvillafr@accd.edu
Palo Alto College to Recognize Students at Scholarship Ceremony
Family and friends will join Palo Alto College officials to recognize students at a Scholarship Ceremony at 4 p.m. on
Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Gymnasium. The event is open to the public.
Palo Alto College presented 652 students scholarships this fall. The college awards over $500,000 in scholarships each
year.
Keynote speakers will be community philanthropists Jean Migliorino and Philip Piccione. Both Migliorino and Piccione are
retired from the U.S. Air Force, Migliorino as a colonel and Piccione as a lieutenant colonel.
After traveling around the world, the couple decided to make San Antonio their permanent residence. Since then, they have
made charitable contributions in San Antonio as well as in their home states of Pennsylvania and Louisiana.
Their charitable efforts included planned giving, endowment building and smaller gifts. Locally, Migliorino and Piccione
have established endowments with the Alamo Community College District (ACCD), St. Mary’s University, the University of the
Incarnate Word, Our Lady of the Lake University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Their generous contributions provide permanent sources of funding for student scholarships and faculty development.
Migliorino and Piccione’s donation to the ACCD helped establish the ACORN Scholarship, which is maintained by the ACCD
Foundation and is available to students attending any of the four ACCD colleges who are majoring in high demand
occupational fields where employment is relatively assured.
For information about the ceremony, call 921-5320. To learn more about planned giving, call the Institutional Advancement
Department at 208-8105.