Five MDC aviation students awarded Eig Watson scholarship

Miami Dade College (MDC) Foundation and the Eig-WatsonSchool of Aviation at MDC awarded five students with the Saul and Lois EigWatson Scholarship to support their dreams of becoming airline and commercialpilots.

The 2019 scholarship recipients are Jose Manuel Garcia,Yassel Garcia Herrera, Jonathan Sergio Ibarra, Andres Laluz and David F.Zambrano, joining the group of more than 230 aspiring airline and commercialpilots who have received the Saul and Lois Eig Watson Scholarship since it wasestablished at MDC in 1988.  Today, it isone of the largest aviation scholarships in the country.

The scholarship recipients were honored at a recent MDCFoundation event with the donors and guest speaker MDC alumnus Jose Muñoz – apast scholarship recipient who today is a successful pilot at United Airlines.

“Without this scholarship, there’s a good chance that Iwouldn’t be here right now with the job I have and pursuing the career I’vedreamed of,” Muñoz added. “I think I speak on behalf of all of us who receivedthe scholarship back then and have since been successful, it’s all because ofthe Eig Watson family and MDC.”

The Saul and Lois Eig Watson Scholarship, awarded annuallyto outstanding MDC aviation students to support flight training costs, wasnamed in memory of Lois Eig Watson’s late husband, Saul Eig. Lois was a flightstudent herself and a former faculty member at MDC’s Kendall Campus.