Chief Sealth senior Sabas Rousseau’s scholarship surprise

June 10, 2010 at 10:46 am | In West Seattle news, West Seattle schools | 5 Comments

Today is the last day of classes at Chief Sealth International High School for seniors, whose graduation ceremony is coming up next week. And for one of them, Sabas Rousseau, this is a truly memorable day – as he got a big surprise: Cirque de Soleil performers and reps from Sun Life Financial showed up to give him a Rising Star $5,000 scholarship – which he didn’t know about in advance! Flanking Sabas in the photo are Sealth principal John Boyd and Sun Life’s Mark O’Connor. The surprise award was elaborately orchestrated – Sabas and a small group of his fellow seniors were invited to come see a special show in honor of their last day of classes – here’s a card-trick skit, in which Sealth senior Daniel Davis played the sidekick:

Sabas, by the way, is one of three area students receiving a Rising Star scholarship today – the only one from West Seattle. In addition to his academic achievement, Sabas is an active volunteer, and is involved with Treehouse‘s College and Career Planning program, which helps foster-care youth with college and career readiness; as part of this award, Treehouse receives a $50,000 grant for financial education.

5 Comments

  1. Congratulations to him! What a wonderful surprise!

    Comment by AJP — June 10, 10 1:42 pm #

  2. Bravo!

    Encore!

    Comment by JunctionMonkey — June 10, 10 2:13 pm #

  3. That is great news! I congratulate the young man and wish him best of luck.

    Comment by madashell — June 10, 10 2:17 pm #

  4. What a fantastic honor! Congratulations. I love hearing stories like this. :)

    Comment by LyndaB — June 10, 10 10:48 pm #

  5. GOOD JOB I LOOK UP TO YOU SIR

    Comment by Jesse Tores — June 17, 10 4:12 pm #

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