CORNELIUS Ore.
When Glance High School student Jose Echevarria arrived in Oregon at age 9 he spoke no English and had no political favors to call in.
At 16, he has a resume that should put him on an Ivy League track, and he left this past week end for Washington, D.C., to be a U.S. congressional page.
“This is the most stressful thing I’ve ever done,” Echevarria said from his home in Cornelius. “It took a lot of thinking.”
Echevarria won over the three judges with his straight-A grades, school leadership positions and acceptance to a Latino law camp at Georgetown University. He was one of 18 Oregon applicants. It was his character and the trust others have in him, said Susan Marcus, one of the judges and a retired teacher.
