Gina Eckerman and Frisco A&M Club members,
First I would like to say thank you all for making this amazing scholarship opportunity and offer available to me, and no words can express my gratitude to everyone in the Frisco A&M Club!
This scholarship has helped ease the strain of college cost on my parents and have shown my family the graciousness and the community spirit of Aggies, and for that I am thankful and proud to be a member of the fightin’ Texas Aggie class of 2013! ! !
A brief introduction for those of you who does not know me. My name is Satoshi Endo and I am a graduating senior at Centennial High School. My family is ethnic Chinese from the coastal city of Shanghai but 1 was born in Tokyo, Japan because my parents moved to Japan before my birth for education and job opportunities. Nine years ago, my family moved to the United States, first settling in Houston, then in Tulsa, and now finally here in Frisco. Life hasn’t always been easy in the United States as my father eventually started his own construction business and my mother went back to school to receive a nursing degree to become a full time Registered Nurse. Their hard work and dedication has shown me that commitment to excellence and perseverance is a very important part of success, values which Texas A&M also strongly embodies.
I am planning to study Finance at Mays Business School and a minor in Asian Studies at Texas A&M University and doing a foreign exchange my junior year. I will also be rooming with a friend of mine since 6th grade who also moved from Tulsa to the Dallas area a few years ago at Texas A&M in the Southside. I am looking forward to the challenge Texas A&M will give me and the strong school
spirit (which my high school does not have much of) that it has! Honestly I am not much of a football fan but I love college basketball so it’ll be a great to see the Aggies dominate at Reed Arena! I am really looking forward to spending my next four years in Aggieland.
Finally I would like to give my thanks again to Gina who came to the scholarship night to present me my scholarship and being very gracious all the time and to the entire Frisco A&M Club for your contribution to my scholarship. I understand that there were many other qualified individuals who deserve this scholarship as much as I do, and I am just thankful that I was chosen. I will study hard, have fun, and make many friends once I get down to College Station next fall and I will make you all proud. Without any of you this would not have been possible, and thank you all again for showing me the spirit of the Aggies! ! !
Gig ’em Aggies!
-Satoshi Endo, class of 2013
