River Rouge High Students to Receive $11,500 in Bank One Academy Scholarships DETROIT, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- River Rouge High School students will receive $11,500 in scholarships Wednesday, June 2, when they graduate from the Bank One Academy at the bank's technology center in Belleville. Between October and May, Bank One employee mentors met twice monthly with 26 River Rouge students to teach career and life skills. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030116/NYTH053LOGO ) The Detroit area academy is the 18th location Bank One has opened since 1998 in 12 cities around the country. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit screens and trains mentors from Bank One and helps them effectively guide students through continuing supervision. The mentors develop management skills while they give back to the community. "We hope the students who successfully complete the Bank One Academy learn a very important life lesson -- the only limits to success are the ones we place on ourselves," said Dick Wade, president of Bank One's Michigan market. "I congratulate the students and their mentors on a successful academic year. We hope this experience will open the door to more opportunities for all as our first Michigan students graduate from the Bank One Academy." As they progressed through the program, students could earn up to 1,000 points. Mentors evaluated the students after the academy's last session May 12, and 10 students who earned 80 percent of the available points will receive $250 scholarships. For students who earned more points, Bank One will present 16 scholarships worth $500. The top-achieving student will receive an additional $1,000 scholarship. Bank One will announce the scholarship awards at the June 2 graduation ceremony. Students qualified for the academy by having at least a "C" average and good high school attendance and conduct records. Bank One will recognize the River Rouge students at a 3 p.m. graduation ceremony June 2 at the technology center, 9000 Haggerty Road (between Tyler and Ecorse roads), Belleville. In Michigan, Bank One operates a network of 240 branches and 370 ATMs. Bank One Corporation ( http://www.bankone.com/ ) is the nation's sixth-largest bank holding company, with assets of $320 billion. Bank One currently has more than 51 million credit cards issued, nearly 7 million retail households, approximately 500,000 small business customers, and approximately 20,000 middle market customers. It also manages $188 billion of clients' investment assets. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030116/NYTH053LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Bank One CONTACT: Mary Kay Bean of Bank One Media Relations, +1-313-225-2831 Web site: http://www.bankone.com/

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