When retired lawyer Don Arbour received a call from the Cristo Rey Dean's office asking if he would partner with a student for help in English, he didn’t expect to become the student, “When we met, she told me she needed help in Algebra 2 and Chemistry. I did my best for two weeks, and essentially she fired me because I had no clue what I was doing." Rather than giving up the opportunity, Don equipped himself for the task. "Every summer, I relearned a high school math course beginning with Algebra, then..."

“I was in shock; I didn’t know what to think,” said Jefferson Cunnin (’23) in response to being awarded the POSSE Scholarship, “I called my parents right away. My dad cried when he found out, I had never seen him cry before.”