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FUTURE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IS A DANIELS SCHOLAR
The Daniels Scholarship Program, established by cable television pioneer Bill Daniels, provides scholars with great potential, strong character, and big dreams with up to $100,000 to attend the college of their choice.
This year, nearly 140 high-achieving seniors from Colorado received this award, including Central Wildcat Dwayne Gurule, who joins South’s Ian Espinoza as a recipient.
A drum major with Central’s Marching Band, Dwayne also is part of the Jazz Band. He is active in Central's Fellowship of Christian Athletes, serving as president. At Central, his favorite courses are music and math.
To give back to his community, Dwayne is part of an outreach at the Oakwood Estates mobile home park.
“We have a church inside there,” he said. “We help students who can’t afford backpacks and school supplies. Last year, we helped out more than 80 kids.”
Dwayne also takes discipleship courses through the Acts 13 program.
“It’s a course that helps Christian leaders learn how to outreach and spread the gospel at work, school, the park, and in everyday life,” he explained.
For the past three years, Dwayne has been employed with Pueblo West Heating and Air.
Dwayne believes he received the Daniels Scholarship “because I value character. I have not, and will not, back down for what I know to be right.”
With a goal of becoming a law enforcement officer in order to better the community he will serve, Dwayne plans to attend the University of Wyoming to study Criminal Justice.
Dwayne credits his educators with playing “a huge role in my success, from elementary school all the way to high school: always challenging me to succeed academically but more importantly, spiritually,” he said.
For his fellow District scholars, Dwayne offers this directive: “Get to know God: it’ll change your life for the better.”
As a young man of deep faith and conviction, Dwayne is elated with the course his life is taking.
“God is good: He’s blessed me with a beautiful life that has not always been pretty,” Dwayne said. “I’m engaged to a beautiful young lady and have a life plan set in front of me. But it is for the glorification of God that I live for, not for anything I’ve done.”