Joe May and Rev. Amado S. Hinojosa scholarships to be awarded at Dallas ISD superintendent’s scholarship reception

Superintendent's scholars will receive $2,000; May and Rev. Hinojosa honorees will get $1,000.

DALLAS — The second Joe May and Rev. Amado S. Hinojosa Scholarship Awards will be presented to two of the top Dallas Independent School District students among the 60 seniors designated as Superintendent’s Scholarship recipients at 5 p.m., Wednesday, April 30, at Southern Methodist University, Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 3140 Dyer Street. The scholarships are given in recognition of outstanding community service, academic achievement and good character, and will provide financial support for a college education.

In addition to the $2,000 awarded to all Superintendent’s Scholarship recipients, the winner of the Joe May Scholarship will receive $1,000 and the winner of the Rev. Amado S. Hinojosa Scholarship will also be presented with $1,000. The scholarships are funded by proceeds from the annual Superintendent’s Scholarship Golf Classic.

May, who died in 2006, was a board trustee for the district and represented District 8 — Love Field, Northwest Dallas and Central Dallas. May was elected to the Board of Trustees in August 2002, and served on the Board’s Policy and Education Committees. He was elected as second vice-president in May 2004.

A native of Laredo, Texas, May was a U.S. Army veteran, who served with the 4th Infantry and the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Following his military service, he attended East Texas State University where he received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree. At the time of his death, he was employed as a business opportunity specialist with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Rev. Amado S. Hinojosa, who died in 2006, was the father of Superintendent of Schools Michael Hinojosa. Six of his ten children, including Dr. Michael Hinojosa, are Dallas ISD graduates.

Rev. Hinojosa was a native of México and immigrated to the United States in 1959. He graduated as a minister from the Instituto Biblico Magdiel, and served as a minister in the Asambleas de Dios (Assemblies of God) church for fifty years, 17 in México, and 33 in the United States. Once in the United States, Rev. Hinojosa attended Latin American Theological Seminary. Rev. Hinojosa founded seven churches and also taught seminars in México and in the United States.

Source: Dallas Independent School District