Students Selected to Receive the First Jeremy Trejo Good Fathers Scholarships

John Torrey, Diane Torrey, Armando Martinez and Arturo Saucedo.

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi students Arturo Saucedo and Armando Martinez were the first recipients to receive scholarships this fall through The Jeremy Trejo Good Fathers Scholarship Foundation. The foundation was established by Trejo’s in-laws, John and Diane Torrey. Institutional Advancement hosted the Jeremy Trejo Good Fathers Foundation scholarship luncheon on campus for the recipients and the Torreys Thursday, Sept. 27. Trejo was originally from Denver and had served as a military police officer in the Army and a tour in Bosnia. Trejo, who later made Corpus Christi his home, died in an SUV rollover in 2004, leaving behind a son.

The Foundation offers a $1,000 scholarship per semester to eligible fathers attending Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The scholarship will assist full-time undergraduate fathers, with at least a junior standing, earning a college degree. Eligibility requires a minimum grade-point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale.

Saucedo is a senior majoring in criminal justice with a minor in social work. Martinez is a senior majoring in business management. The Foundation teaches young men the values, qualities and responsibilities that need to be passed along from father to son about what it means to be a man.