For two months, as winter segued into spring, about 40 students who had either dropped out or been kicked out of the Dallas area's Arlington public high schools attended class inside a decrepit, two-story gray stucco office building that sat woefully

Barbara Duffie, Dallas Can! Academy - Oak Cliff campus senior, was selected as the recipient out of five candidates due to her determination to attend college, and her fervent desire to prove to her children that any dream is possible.