Inspired by immigrant parents, Don Bosco Cristo Rey senior earns place at Notre Dame
Bryan Garcia remembers the room.
Until he was about 5 years old, Garcia shared a single rented room in Washington with his parents, Jose Garcia and Antonia Guzman, and his younger sister Karen.
“We all shared a room,” Garcia said. “We all slept in the room.”
Today, his family’s life looks far different from the apartment he remembers from childhood. His younger sister, Karen, now attends Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg, and his 7-month-old brother, Elias, has been “such a blessing,” he said.
This fall, Garcia will become the first in his family to attend college as he heads to the University of Notre Dame to study mechanical engineering after graduating from Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, Maryland.