SEIU 400 Scholarships Feed Student's Dreams

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Twenty-four-year-old Korey Richardson (at right), a custodian at Kettering Middle School in Prince George’s County, hopes to own his own design studio some day. Richardson’s dreams got a boost this week from his union, SEIU 400 PG, when he won one of the local’s six scholarships, enabling him to continue his fine art studies at Prince George’s Community College. “I’ve been paying out of pocket and this will be a great help,” Richardson said at the awards ceremony Wednesday morning at the union hall in Hyattsville. “It’s a blessing to be able to provide a record $8,000 in scholarships this year,” Local 400 President Sonny Reed told the winners. “We wish you all the very best in your educations as you go forward.” Other winners – all high school seniors and children of SEIU 400 members -- were Calvin Rogers, Sade Holland, Daryl Dent Jr., Karina Sanchez and Brittini Goines. - photos: (above) Richardson; (below) SEIU 400 PG 2012 scholarship winners (seated), along with their family members and Local 400 scholarship committee members Kelvin Pinkney, Trent C. Holmes,  committee chair Kenneth Staton, President Sonny Reed and VP William Sellman; photos by Chris Garlock