Senior receives all-expenses-paid prom, textbooks

Lala Villegas, News Editor|April 9, 2014

Christian Hernandez

Senior Angely Gonzalez is awarded a prom dream. The charity paid for all prom expenses and textbooks for freshman year at Texas State.

Last month senior Angely Gonzalez didn’t know what to think when she was told she was in trouble and needed to report to the College and Career Center immediately.

However, when she arrived she was pre- sented with a bouquet of flowers and award- ed funds to pay for attending prom and her first year of college textbooks.

It was a dream come true for Gonzalez who was the first person at Akins to be awarded a “Prom Dream” by a new chari- table organization that rewards hard working college-bound teenager girls.

Prom Dream is an organization that works with schools and communities to award high school students that are achieving at a high level in their classes and come from families that could use a little help.

They pay for everything that they need for prom such as the dress, make-up, jewelry and other accessories.

“My mom isn’t able to afford my stuff for prom and I wasn’t able to go to prom, but now I can,” Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez was ecstatic that she was chosen and she was told in a creative way.

“I was so happy that I cried,” Gonzalez said. “They called my teacher and told her I was in trouble but they tricked me and when I got to the CCC office they surprised me.”

The group will also benefit Gonzales by covering her textbooks at Texas State Uni-

versity during her freshman year.
CCC adviser Sarah Simmons has helped

Gonzalez to try and reach her goals to go to Texas State.

“It’s been really fun watching Angely this year,” Simmons said. “She has really

blossomed and is always helpful and a hard- working student.”

Gonzalez was very grateful for the help from the CCC.

“I just want to thank them for everything that they did for me,” Gonzalez said.