Compañeros, así como una sola familia deberemos siempre... siempre actuar como una sola familia, porque estamos en la misma causa, la misma necesidad porque compartimos - fíjense - compartimos el mismo futuro. ¡La gente tiene que sentir su ser, sentir que sí se puede, sí se puede, que se puede hacer! - César E. Chávez
Support RELS   RELS Supporters   Preuss School   TMC at UCSD   RELS Home WITH QUESTIONS OR TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK: please contact us at: (858) 534-1507 rels@ucsd.edu		About the Rebecca E. Lytle Endowed Scholarship
		The RELS was initiated in 1996 to recruit and encourage outstanding first-year students attending Thurgood Marshall College at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, California. Recipients have been selected on the basis of four criteria: high academic achievement, the first in their family to attend college, a record of community service, and financial need. The RELS was begun by two large endowed gifts from philanthropist/entrepreneur, Sol Price, and the Lytle family. Since then, the annual RELS Concert has become the major fundraising event dedicated to increasing the endowment so that it may support deserving students. Awards are decided by a selection committee of University staff and faculty and members of the San Diego community. Beginning in 2004, the REL scholarships are awarded to graduates of the UCSD Preuss School attending Thurgood Marshall College at UCSD. RELS Scholars are selected on the basis of the four criteria above and upon the recommendation of the school's Director. Continuance of the RELS award for subsequent years is dependent on the student maintaining a 3.00 Grade Point Average. Although choice of major is not a factor, consideration has been given in the past to young women entering college with an interest in careers in the public sector. ABOUT BECKY: Rebecca E. Lytle's Phi Beta Kappa intellect was only rivaled by her deep compassion for civic service. Even after her debilitating illness precipitated her retirement as an art editor at Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Publishing Company, she worked as a volunteer tutor for READ/San Diego, where she taught reading to adults with learning disabilities. Becky was married to Cecil Lytle, former Provost of UCSD's Thurgood Marshall College. At the time of her passing in 1995, they had raised two strong and loving children: Eric, born in 1966, graduated from the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley in 1989 and currently works as an Institutional Trust Officer for The Charles Schwab Trust Company in San Francisco; and Kathleen "Kelly," shares two lovely boys, Isaiah and Solomon Lytle Hernandez, with her husband, Sebastian, and is an Assistant Professor of History at UCLA. Becky's friends and family have established this scholarship fund at UCSD to honor her memory.		NIKA OMID's family immigrated to the U.S. from Iran during her early teenage years. The first RELS recipient, Omid graduated from Thurgood Marshall College at UCSD in June 2001 with a major in biology and earned Phi Beta Kappa distinction. Omid has since graduated from the UCSD School of Medicine, is now a practicing physician, and has also volunteered at the Free Clinic of San Diego County. LYNDSEY LOVELACE, the 2nd recipient of the RELS, served as Provost's Intern while at TMC and led a student coalition that advocated the establishment of the Preuss School. Lovelace graduated from UCSD in 2001 in sociology and earned Provost's Honors, then successfully completed a Master's degree in counseling psychology at SDSU. In 2003, she gave birth to two daughters and continues to serve her community as an elementary school teacher. JENNIFER GONZALES, the 3rd RELS recipient, entered UCSD in 1998 to study biology. Gonzales earned Provost's Honors and conducted undergraduate biomedical research at the Salk Institute. Upon graduation in 2003, Jennifer pursues her long-term interest in becoming a veterinarian.