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Celebrating our Largest Graduating Class Ever!

Updated: Nov 25, 2019


When Merle Palmer and Rev. Al Davis began mentoring and financially supporting those two young men they handpicked from their Sunday School class more than 35 years ago, they likely never could have imagined the rippling effect they’d cause for our greater Pierce County community.


As we close out the 2018-2019 school year, we are excited to announce that we are graduating our largest class of college Scholars to date. As undergrads, these 24 Scholars have spent countless hours learning, growing, and rooting on their school’s football team. As the first in their families to go to college, many figured things out along the way, with the help of their mentors and Palmer Scholars staff. We couldn’t be more proud.

We truly understood what has been said at so many commencements before: graduation is only partly a celebration of the graduates. It is, more so, a celebration of all who have supported these ambitious young people along their journey.

If you joined us at our graduation ceremony at Pacific Lutheran University, you were lucky to meet some of our graduating college Scholars. Many Scholars had already started their exciting new careers or were making big moves to their new graduate schools. We truly understood what has been said at so many commencements before: graduation is only partly a celebration of the graduates. It is, more so, a celebration of all who have supported these ambitious young people along their journey. Our graduation ceremony was a celebration of Merle, Rev. Al and the avalanche of good will, hope, and opportunity that has come to our community since their very first Scholar. Congratulations Merle, Rev. Al, our mentors, volunteers, community of supporters, Scholars, and the families who have raised them to lead with integrity and compassion. We did it!


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Palmer Scholars acknowledges that our work is carried out on, and our office space is located within, occupied Coast Salish land, specifically that of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. We pay respect to Coast Salish Elders past and present and extend that respect to their descendants and to all Indigenous peoples. To acknowledge this land is to recognize its longer history and our place in that history; it is to recognize these lands and waters and their significance for the peoples who lived and continue to live in this region, whose practices and spiritualties were and are tied to the land and the water, and whose lives continue to enrich and develop in relationship to the land, waters, and other inhabitants today.

 

We also pause to recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our country, state, and institutions are built.

We remember that our country is built on the labor of enslaved people who were kidnapped and brought to the U.S. from the African continent and recognize the continued contribution of their survivors. We also acknowledge all immigrant labor, including voluntary, involuntary, trafficked, forced, and undocumented peoples who contributed to the building of the country and continue to serve within our labor force. We acknowledge all unpaid care-giving labor.

 

To the people who contributed this immeasurable work and their descendants, we acknowledge our/their indelible mark on the spaces in which we operate today. It is our collective responsibility to critically interrogate these histories, to repair harm, and to honor, protect, and sustain this land.

Physical Address - 

4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW BLDG 16

Lakewood WA 98499-4004

Phone -

Tricia Speid (CEO) (253) 617-5676

Mailing Address - 

PO Box 7119, Tacoma, WA 98417

Email - info@palmerscholars.org

To contact someone directly visit our staff page here: Our Team

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